Koreas

 I find it very interesting that even though North and South Korea are very different, there are fascinating things about both that are linked.

Although the South is a very advanced high technology first world nation, the personal goals of people seem to involve the central significance of wealth, prestige, status, and family, all equally. That's quite a frontier secular world.

One would think that in such a modern and secular state, that there wouldn't be much time for religion or mysticism, but, indeed, there is a great depth of 'the spiritual' within the society.

The North, of course, is a bit more obvious in crowning the Supreme Leader as a mystical shaman-like persona.

In this way we can see the ties that bind North and South together. In family, and in the mystic.