What is hwabyung?

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What is hwabyung?

Answer 1

"hwa-byung

From: A Dictionary of Psychology  |  Date: 2001  |  Author: ANDREW M. COLMAN



A culture-bound syndrome of Korea and emigrant Korean communities in other countries, attributed locally to suppression of anger, characterized by panic attacks, dyspnoea, thanatophobia, insomnia, anorexia, palpitation, fatigue (1), joint or muscle pains, indigestion, and a sense of fullness in the pit of the stomach.[Korean hwa-byung anger syndrome]"

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"Hwa byung



noun, uncountable

also fire illness listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Korea Edition (DSM-K)

a typical mental illness that is found in people of Korean descent, that can make someone suddenly unable to suppress his/her emotions of anger, sadness, hurt, guilt or shame, etc for a short time, it is sometimes accompanied by incontinence (urine and/or f***s)."

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Answer 2

It's Korean for "Playing the Fool"...

A Court Jester!