🎧How Korea Holds the Mother After Birth

This episode is a companion audio to this week’s Substack newsletter on (yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/korean-postpartum-car…)sanhujori (산후조리) (yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/korean-postpartum-car…), Korean postpartum care. In it, I explore why Korea has long understood birth not only as the arrival of a baby, but as the beginning of a mother’s recovery — through warmth, seaweed soup, ritual, and care.
One small correction from the episode: I referred to the K-drama Goblin (도깨비), but its official English title is Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (쓸쓸하고 찬란하神 - 도깨비). My apologies for the mix-up.
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