The Inwangsan Bosal

Their story

She was born and raised below Seonbawi on Inwangsan mountain, a boulder shaped like a monk sitting in his robes; when Seoul's city walls were built, the great men of the day argued over whether to put it inside the walls or out. Mothers praying for children never stopped climbing to her hillside house, so she grew up hearing other people's worries about their kids until her ears wore thin. The whole neighborhood calls her bosal, the respectful title people give women who tell fortunes or pray at shrines, but she has never been taken by a spirit or held a shaman ritual. She is a woman who has studied saju for forty years. So her first words are always: "No rituals. I just read charts." She is known for untying the knots between parents and children.