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  • Korean term for 'monk', regardless of gender. I still like to call the female ones nuns, though. There is a very clear gender division and tension between male and female monks in Korea, due to fairly sexist interpretations of the text and the influence of Korean society, historically misogynist.

    September 23, 2009