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6 JUNE1,2004
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THEORY&CRITIQUE
Simplebuthelpfulcare
F O O T S T E P S
Reflectionof
Widespreadpopularityforheatinguphalfpartofourbody
patrioticspirit
T
he popularity of a bathing method
that half-length bathing gives less stress to
which stroke Japan, landed on the
ourbodyandheartthanfull-lengthbathing,
Koreanpeninsularecently.Thepointofthis
nottomentionthatitismuchsafer.
T
he President has been reinstated, but
Commands, founded in early Chosun as
methodisbathingonlythelowerhalfofthe
Theeffects
withenormousamountofworktodo
the supreme military organization. The
body. This simple but unique method has
to revitalize the country in this national
Three Uiheung Military Commands kept
brought up special implements everywhere
Keepingthelowerhalfofourbodywarm
crisis of internal instability and external
on changing its name and system, but
on the markets such as waterproof pillows,
brings up lots of positive changes. First of
problems of diplomacy. What would our
performedtheirdutysufficientlyinFrench
bathtub-covers and bathtubs designed for
all, it relaxes our muscles and organs,
ancestors do to save the country from a
invasion (1866) and American invasion
half-length bathing, even on the internet
makingthemfunctionwellsowecanletgo
national crisis? Though their endeavor
(1871).
shoppingmallandhomeshoppingprograms
of mental and physical fatigue. Since the
seems something from the past and does
Chongmudang measures 5kan (a kan is
onTV.Suchhotresponsesuggeststhatthere
bath helps blood circulate actively, it helps
not match the present situation, it may be
the interval between pillars) in width and
is something special about this bathing
eliminatewastemattersfromthesystem,and
meaningful to look back into their story
3kanindepthwithahip-and-gableroof,an
method.
offersusayoungerandhealthierlife.Natural
andreadtheirspirits.
elaborate roof extended outward and
skin care and losing weight is important
Theideaofhalf-lengthbathing
An old office building which stands
upwardatthefourcorners.Itistypicalof
factors of the results that attract popularity.
solitarily inside a tiny park in a rusty
the style seen in government office
Intheearlydaysoftheeighteenthcentury,
Bathing in such a way is also effective for
neighbourhood of Samseon-dong on the
buildings of the time. Chongmudang was
a Dutch physician said “you won’t need a
healing the external injuries, with brisk
edge of Seoul is Chongmudang, the main
thecentralbuildingofthethree.
doctorifyoucankeepthelowerpartofyour
movementofblood.
halloftheThreeMilitaryCommands.The
Thepoorbuildingexpressedstronglyof
bodywarm,andtheupperpartofyourbody
Beside the positive effects, there can be
northern walls of the old Seoul was
itselfthatnobodyhasbeenlookingafterit.
cool.” The principle that the comment
negative effects as well. The negative ones
standingbeyonditlikeanantiquepicture.
The branches were picking the rooftops
implies also has been the major idea of
Astheinterestinwellbeingisincreasing,half-lengthbathingisgainingpopularity.
arethesameasthosethathappenwhenyou
The Three Military Commands is a
and the weeds were about to swallow up
orient medicine for a long time. And it
take full-length bathing too long. Though it
militarysystemofthelastdaysofChosun
the area. Children from the nearby
became the basis of half-length bathing
altogether, T’aejo, Chongjong, T’aejong,
-40℃. Therefore, when the lower half
istruethathalf-lengthbathingisasaferway
era,revivedbyHeungseonDeawongunin
neighborhood who come and play on the
method when Japanese doctor Shindo
Sejong, Sejo, Hyonjong, Sukjong, and
remains warm enough, it will improve the
to take a bath, people with high blood
ordertodefensethepalaceandthecapital.
playground inside the park seem to have
Yoshiharusuggestedit.
Youngjoenjoyedbathinginsuchaway.The
blood circulation, and our cells would have
pressure,orwithweakheartsorlungsshould
Theparkwherethebuildingstandswas
something to do with the damages
Topracticethebatheffectively,onehasto
recordsdonotmentiontheterm“half-length
moresufficientoxygensupply.
take good care and should not stay in the
locatedintheresidentialareaofSeongbuk-
accordingtoasoccerballontheroofofthe
befullyawareofthemethods.Thoughthey
bathing,” but in the records of Sukjong, it
water too long. In this case, of course, hot
gu. The area was noisy and messy full of
building.
are simple, they are important. The
saysthathedippedthelowerpartofhisbody
Comparedexperiments
watershouldbeavoided.
oldhouses.Theroadsweretrickytofollow
In 1880, the buildings of the Three
temperatureofwatershouldnotbetoohot.It
under the belly in the hot spring for about
Since the idea came from Japan, most of
When Korea was modernizing itself, lots
and had no single sign telling where
Military Commands were used as the
shouldbeonlyalittlehigherthanourbody
two gaks, which is about thirty minutes,
the experiments were done there, being
of apartments were built, and with the
Chongmudang was. What makes it more
office for the Management of the State
temperature which would be about 37℃ to
when he went on a medical trip for four
comparedwithbathsdoneinfull-length.The
housing,thebathingstylechanged.Koreans
embarrassing was that there were few
affairs. It became the palace guard
38℃. The surface of water shouldn’t go
days.
changesthatoccurinsidehumanbodywere
used to have bath having bathtub filled up
residents who knew that their
regimentafterthepoliticalreformofKorea
higherthanthepitofourstomach.About20
observedfromtwodifferentparts,heartand
with warm water and spent a long time
neighbourhood has such a building with
by the Japanese Empire and later the
to 30 minutes is appropriate to be in the
Theprinciple
bloodvessels.Thedifferencebetweentaking
inside.Thewesterncivilizationchangedthis
historicalimportance.
buildingswereusedastheKoreanInfantry
water.
It is a simple truth that warm substances
a half-length bath and a full-length bath
intoamoresimpleway.Nowpeopleprefer
Heungseon Deawongun was the leader
Headquarters.
Half-length bathing was introduced to
rise upwards and cold substances sink
appeared on the results of changes in
takingaquickshowerthanspendingalong
of the last days of Chosun era when the
MostoftheChosun’sgovernmentoffice
some Koreans when Lee Kun hee, the
downwards. Our body is the same with its
heartbeatandthechangesinbloodpressure.
time in the bathtub. This may save more
country was staggering with weak
buildings in Seoul have disappeared and
chairman and chief executive officer of
upper part tending to be warm, while the
In half-length bathing test, the number of
time,butitdoesnotsufficientlyremovethe
authority of the king and threats from
only three remain. Chongmudang,
Samsung, mentioned it at a speech in
lowerpartbeingtheopposite.Thisway,the
heartbeats rose in the first place, but went
stressthatpeopletodayreceive.Thepillsand
outside.Deawonguntriedtoreorganizethe
Cheongheondang, one of the other two
Fukuokain1993.Introducingthemethodto
blood runs slowly in the lower part and
back to where it were after three minutes.
tablets for fatigue may cause side effects.
country and carried out two important
buildingsoftheThreeMilitaryoffice,now
hisstaff,heremarkedthathethoughtitisthe
leaves waste matters. The waste matters,
However, in the full-length bathing test,
Apart from them, with its feature of natural
policies, politically and militarily.
standsintheKoreaMilitaryAcademy,and
bestwaytomaintainhealth,anindispensible
which should be sent outside, are likely to
heartbeat kept on rising. The results of the
safeness, half-length bathing may be an
Politically, he strengthened the Uijungbu
the Jongchinbu, an office related to the
elementforpeopletosucceedatwork.
cause disorder in our body when it gets
bloodpressureshowedthatitwashigherbut
answer.
andking’sauthoritieswhileherestoredthe
royalfamily,nowmovedtotheJeongdok
accumulated. To wash them out, the blood
camebacktoitsnormallevelinhalf-length
Historicaldocuments
ThreeMilitaryCommands.
public library grounds. Cheongheondang
circulation needs to get vigorous, and this
bathing,whileitremainedhighinfull-length
The
buildings,
Chongmudang,
and the Jongchinbu lost their former
Thisnewwayofbathingmayseemtobe
canbedonebywarmingupthelowerpartof
bathing.
Cheongheondang and Deoguidang were
figures and now have changed too much
an idea which mainly came from Japan.
ourbody.Whatabouttheupperpart?Itdoes
It also turned out that full-length bathing
built for the offices in front of
with thick smell of modern paint around
However,itwasagenerallyadoptedlifestyle
not matter since it strongly tends to keep
puts pressure of 540 kilograms on the heart
ByLimHyo-young
Gwanghwamun to the west, facing the
them. This makes Chongmudang, cultural
ofourancestors.Inthehistoricalrecordsof
warm.Thehead,thepartthathaircovers,do
while half-length bathing gives none of it.
ReporterofTheory&CritiqueSection
statecouncilbuildingtotheeast,whichis
assetNo.37,morespecial,foritmakesthis
the Chosun Dynasty, eight of the kings
notgetfrostbitteneveninthetemperatureof
According to the experiments, it is obvious
now the site of the central government
buildingapreciouspieceofsourcetoknow
complex.
whatofficebuildingswerelikeatthattime.
Chongmudangwasmovedtoitspresent
However, if there is something more
Decipheringthemechanismoflivercancer
location in 1930, during the Japanese
importantthanthebuildingitself,itmaybe
colonialperiod.Aftertheliberationin1945
the spirit of a leader who wanted to
the building slid into disrepair, and in
reconstruct a country, though the results
I
August 1979, the Seoul Metropolitan
wereunsuccessful.
tistruethathumanbeingshavecultivated
gatheredglobalattentionwiththediscovery.
oflivercancer,HBx,atypeofproteinthatis
howtostopit.However,wearenotsureyet
Governmentbeganrestorationworkonthe
their civilization to a point where the
Livercancerisacancerthatoccursmostly
produced by HBV activating NF-kB (p50,
whetherthecurewillturnouttobeactually
building. This restoration was completed
peoplearenowabletocopewithmostofthe
in the East-Asia region and affects 10,000
p65) and AP-1, which are transcription
effectivewhenitisputintoactualpractice,”
on December 20 of the year and the
primitive dangers such as natural disasters
people annually in Korea, which makes it
regulation factors, through intracellular
ProfessorKimremarked.Nevertheless,with
surroundingareabecameSamseonpark.
andcrimeswiththehelpoftechnologyand
one of the most common cancers together
signaltransductionfactorsPI-3K,AKT/PKB
theirendlesseffortandwilltofindabetter,
ByLimHyo-young
The Three Military Commands was
science. However, mankind has not yet
with gastric cancer. The ultimate reason of
andERK.Whenthetranscriptionregulation
healthier life for human beings, the liver
ReporterofTheory&CritiqueSection
originally the Three Uiheung Military
decodedthesecretofthehumanbody,where
liver cancer is the hepatitis B and C virus,
factorsareactivatedintothenucleus,thetwo
cancerwillbeconqueredbytheirhands.
various changes and activities take place
whichrepeatedlyinflamethelivercellsinto
transcription factors enhance the expression
every second. These changes, one of which
cancer.About90%ofthepatientsinKorea,
ofmatrixmetalloproteinase-9(MMP-9),the
is mutation, affect the lives of people
who suffer from liver diseases, are HBV
inhibitor that spreads liver cancer. Secreted
directly. It is true that our body grows
carriers,anditisknownthattheyareabout
extracellularly, MMP-9 will vigorously
stronger through these changing processes.
100 times apt to develop into liver cancer.
spreadlivercancerandinvadenormalcells.
On the other hand, however, we can also
For the cure, liver resection is known to be
Withthebasicmechanismfiguredout,itis
developfataldiseases.Livercancerisoneof
mosteffective.However,sincetheliverisa
not a dream for an effective cure to be
thosemisfortunespeoplecanencounter.
bluntorganism,itismostlytoolatewhenthe
invented. Applying the results of the study,
Recently, on the May issue of the
symptoms are shown. So the treatment is
possibility of preventing and treating liver
Federation of American Societies for
only applied to about 10% to 20% of the
cancer by creating a restrainer that will
Experimental Biology (FASEB) journal, a
patients. Still, the relapsing of the cancer
suppress the MMP-9’s revelation and
remarkable study by a National Research
showsahighrateofabout50%to60%.This
activation,cannotbeignored.ProfessorKim
Lab(NRL)teamwithProfessorKimCheorl-
leads to high death rates as 21.4 people out
Cheorl-ho’steamisworkingonthecureby
ho of Dongguk University, was published.
of10,000people.Koreaisthecountrywith
inventing an effective restrainer to factors
Through the study they discovered the
thehighestdeathrateoflivercancerbetween
whichareputintoworkbyHBx,relatedto
mechanism of liver cancer’s invasion and
OECDmembers.
metastasis of liver cancer and the team is
How the metastasis of liver cancer
metastasisforthefirsttimeintheworld.This
According to the researches by Professor
now on animal testing. They have already
progresses.
biochemist team of Professor Kim has
Kim’s research team, the utmost base of a
applied for a patent to the International
alreadyfiguredout,alsoforthefirsttimein
cancer’s invasion and metastasis is by
Patent Cooperation Treaty and it is being
ByLeeHyae-myung
the world, how hepatitis B virus (HBV)
resolving the basement membrane and
examined.
AssociateEditorofTheory&CritiqueSection
LimHyo-young/TheArgus
developintolivercancerinJulylastyearand
replacingitintocancerouscells.Inthecase
“Nowweknowthebasicmechanismand
Land
WhimsicalfairiesimmortalinIrishminds
Myths
W
hat are fairies? A number of people
believedinIrish-CelticmythologythatTutha
thefairies.Peoplewouldtrytheirbestnotto
written several books on Sidhe and Irish
diminished. Now there are only few people
will come up with a tiny creature
De Danann, the people of goddess Danu,
disturbtheplace.Itisthoughtthatifyoucut
legends like “Ancient Legends, Mystic
who believe in fairies like they used to do,
withapairofwings,flyingaroundtwinkling
rulesIreland.TheyaretheIrishraceofgods,
down the tree, bad luck will come,”
Charms,andSuperstitionsofIreland,”there
puttingoutfoodforthefairiesattheirfront
like a star. Something close to Tinkerbell
founded by the goddess Danu. They knew
Professor Conway Sheelagh from Ireland
are ways to take their child back once they
porch and keeping awe to the fairies.
fromJ.M.Berrie’s“PeterPan”mightbethe
how to use magic, and traveled on a big
remarked.
notice it is a changeling. They should hold
However, the Irish people decorate their
picture drawn inside their minds. However,
cloud until they settled in Ireland. There
Sidhe’s appearances are differently
their child, which is really a fairy, over fire
gardens with little figures of fairies, recite
in Ireland, not only the pretty ones like
were several attempts to invade Ireland by
described according to what type of fairy
and chant a magic spell telling the child to
songs about them and one of the biggest
Tinkerbell, but also old goblin like the
external and internal forces such as the Fir
theyare.Leprechaunsareknowntobelittle
burnifitisachildofevil.
celebrations in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day,
“Leprechaun” and mermaid “merrow” are
Bhorgs but the Tutha De Danann people
dwarfs with faces of old men, while others
Unlike other fairies around the world,
alsoisconnectedtoaSidhe,theLeprechaun.
consideredasfairies.Thereareuncountable
defeated them all, ruling the place
maypossessbeautifullooksjustlikeangels.
Sidhe were known to be strong and
TheSidhemayseemdead,buttheyarestill
numbersoffairiesinIrelandandalltogether,
peacefully.
Still, commonly they are portrayed as
independent. Compared to fairies in Greek
living inside the lives and minds of Irish
theyarecalledthe“Sidhe”?pronouncedas
Nevertheless, their reign also came to an
mischievous and whimsical creatures. They
myths who were helpless in front of gods’
people.LikewhatthefamousIrishpoetW.
“shee” ? which means “the people of the
end as all the others did. When the first
would not do any harm to people unless
mighty power, Irish Sidhe were different.
B.Yeatsquotedinhisbook“FairyandFolk
(fairy) hills.” It is a Gaelic name for fairies
Gaels, sons of Mil came, the Tutha De
people disturb them first. There are many
Although they were fairies, they are
tales of the Irish Peasantry”, “Blake saw a
usedinIreland.
Danannneededtogiveuptheirsovereignty.
legendsrelatedtoSidhe.Inthelegends,there
illustrated as powerful ones who dominated
fairy’sfuneral;butinIrelandwesaytheyare
There are no clear suppositions on what
It is told that they were driven into the
are also stories about the Sidhe’s
certain regions, having their own kings and
immortal.”
the Sidhe were originally, for their stories
underworld, certain mounds and to Tir Nan
changelings.
queens.Thelocalregionstheyinvadedwere
were told by word of mouth. However, the
og, the land of youth. In these places, their
Changelings are when a fairy changes
oftennamedafterthefairyqueen.Togivean
most well known presumption is that the
existenceslowlyfadedaway,changingthem
theirchildwithahumanchildorapieceofa
example, Knockainy in Limerick comes
SidheareancientIrishgods,whoturnedinto
intofairies.
log. People think that the log or the fairy
from “Cnoc Aine,” the name of the most
ByLeeHyae-myung
fairies as they lost their power. Before the
“There still are certain places and fairy
child is their child. According to an old
famousfairyqueeninMunster.
Merrow,aSidheofIrelandappearingas
AssociateEditorofTheory&CritiqueSection
church was introduced to Ireland, people
trees,whichareisthoughttobeoccupiedby
document of Lady Augusta Wilde who has
Nowadays,beliefsabouttheSidhe’shave
amermaid.

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