Wyatt has a screenshot-filled review/recap of Pulgasari, the legendary North Korean monster movie helmed by a South Korean director that Kim Jong-Il had kidnapped. No, really.

Here's some more information about mudang (English below the Korean). The Chinese characters were 巫堂, the first character of which is the same one used (as ateji) in Japanese words of similar thrust, like miko and kannagi.