On the 27th, a special meditation journey will be held at K Future 의원, set in the forest around Gonjiam in Docheok-myeon, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi Province. The event will be run by Healing News and will feature a series of sessions, from a lecture on the body and walking meditation to a healing-meditation storytelling piano performance. The gathering was planned for patients currently hospitalised at K Future 의원 and for those who need to recover their bodies and minds. It will open with a lecture by Director Cho Byung-sik on body health at 5pm, then participants will share an organic vegetarian dinner prepared with vegetables grown inside the hospital and experience food meditation. After sunset, they will walk along forest paths, and the programme will culminate in experiencing music through a healing-meditation piano performance. It is a journey in which learning, food, steps and music connect into one flow.
A stage at the heart of a 25,000-pyeong forest for patients at the hospital
K Future 의원 is a clinic that supports recovery based on cancer convalescence and anti-cancer regenerative treatment, natural healing and integrative medicine. Within a forest environment of 25,000 pyeong, it runs immunity management as well as rehabilitation and recovery programmes. If city hospitals are placed under noise and fluorescent lights, then outside the windows here, the seasons flow as they are.
This concert began with long-held wishes from pianist Shin Eun-gyeong, who wanted to hold a healing concert for patients who urgently need their bodies to recover. Instead of patients travelling to the performance venue, the music walks into the space where recovery takes place. For patients fighting illness, meeting a performance in the place where they stay—without having to search out a faraway concert hall—can make a significant difference. The healing-meditation time for patients is also set to reach participants who are not patients, as something precious.
Changing the environment so cells work again, Director Cho Byung-sik’s K Regenerative Medicine
The lecture held before the concert focuses on healing the body. Director Cho Byung-sik, the speaker, graduated from Busan National University College of Medicine in 1990. While working in private practice in Busan, he felt the limits of modern medicine and set out on the path of natural medicine. He later opened a natural clinic in a rural mountain area of Gyeongju at an elevation of 500 metres above sea level and met patients with chronic conditions and intractable diseases for a long period. In 2023, he moved to Gonjiam and is now the representative director of K Future 의원. He previously served as the inaugural chair of the Korean Society of Natural Medicine, and is currently active as chair of the K Regenerative Medicine Research Society and honorary chair of the Clinical Integrative Medicine Cancer Society.
Director Cho established the concept of ‘K Regenerative Medicine’ by tying together the principles of regenerative medicine and natural healing in 2025. The core idea is to restore the body’s environment so that cells can revive themselves, rather than suppressing disease. In the order he explains, oxygen and nutrients must reach cells properly, mitochondria must be helped to produce energy, and normalisation of signal exchange across the cell membrane must be achieved. Placing mind-and-body medicine and meditation, including danjeon breathing, into the treatment programme and widening it into the concept of holistic healing also follows the same logic.
Last May, his book 『If You Regenerate Cells, Illnesses Get Better』 compiled this perspective. In the book, Director Cho diagnoses that while modern medicine is excellent at dealing with emergencies and suppressing disease, it has limitations in fundamental recovery for chronic conditions and intractable diseases. He says patients should view disease from the perspective of restoration, not repair.
From the field to the table, an organic vegetarian dinner and a forest walk at dusk
After the lecture, dinner will be served. It is an organic vegetarian meal prepared with vegetables grown and cultivated inside K Future 의원. It is a meal prepared while keeping strictly to the view Director Cho has emphasised—that what you eat is part of treatment. Rather than simply eating healthy food, this is a time set aside for food meditation, allowing participants to feel the process of recovery that starts with a healthy meal.
After dinner, there is a 30-minute time for a walk. It is a chance to walk slowly following the hospital’s terrain surrounded by forest, or to take a light climb. In the late evening of August, when the sun lowers and the air cools, the forest path itself offers the conditions for walking meditation. It is also a time to settle breathing and slow the pace of the body before the performance begins. It is a time to wholeheartedly merge with oneself while walking the forest path.
The flow that links lectures, meals, walking and music is not the result of simply listing separate programmes. It is a sequence of understanding the body, bringing it into the process, moving the body and feeling with the body.
A time to hear with the body without understanding music, with pianist Shin Eun-gyeong
Pianist Shin Eun-gyeong is a performer who delivers music through storytelling rather than just playing it. Shin Eun-gyeong has created a stage that freely moves between classical music and composed music, western music and our own music, hoping that each piece of music is newly created within each person’s own life and memories, and takes root as treasured recollections.
She has appeared on EBS Space Gonggam and on Arte TV stages, and has explored the point where music, the body and stories meet through collaboration with the National Contemporary Dance Company. She has been consistently holding concerts for the 〈Telling the Sound〉 series, covering friendship, love, happiness, the Korean dream, longing, self, and body series. This year, 〈Telling the Sound, Body〉 was presented in May on a stage at the Gangnam THE SHOP Gallery, following a performance in February at JCC Art Centre together with dancer Lee Sang-don.
In earlier performances, pianist Shin Eun-gyeong said she wanted to share with the audience questions about how people should look at and accept their own bodies. She also said she dedicates this performance to those struggling with their bodies and to all living beings who live with their bodies. In that sense, the seating for this show is arranged as the place where her dedication most accurately reaches.
From Rameau to Morricone, a programme threaded in one breath
The concert programme stretches from the Baroque period, through Romanticism, to the modern era, arranged like one long breath. Rameau’s 〈Gavotte and Six Variations〉 opens in quiet stillness, and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17 〈‘The Tempest’〉 third movement surges in like waves. Schumann’s 〈Dawidbundlertanze_Stueck from Davidsbundlertänze〉 and Chopin’s Prelude Op. 28-4, Nocturne Op. 48-1 and 〈Fantaisie-Impromptu〉 widen the textures of emotion.
After the improvised piece No. 15 〈in homage to Édith Piaf〉 and passing through Volkom’s 〈Elegant Ghost〉, the warmth on stage rises. Then Ennio Morricone’s 〈‘Cinema Paradiso’ Love Theme〉 seeps into the audience like a single scene from an old memory, moving towards the finale. The flow that follows—tidying, then rippling and then settling—resembles one long meditation session.
Why music inside a hospital?
Time spent battling illness turns the body into an object of management and observation. Between numbers and schedules and the next check-up, the body is often treated only as a problem that must be fixed again. The space where this concert takes place is the opposite. It is a time when you do not have to try to understand music and when you do not have to achieve something. It is a time to simply feel sound touching somewhere on the shoulders and chest.
The viewpoint of Director Cho Byung-sik, who creates an environment in which cells can come alive again, meets the stage of Shin Eun-gyeong, who leads music to seep into the senses of life. A place to see the body not as something to overcome, but as an existence to live with. This is also why Healing News, a media outlet specialising in meditation and healing, planned this concert. Healing does not come only as the result of treatment.
If, in the brief stillness between one piece ending and the next beginning, you listen to the stories each person’s body sends in that space, then this stage has done its part.
O Hyesun, the publisher of Healing News, said: “Everyone has a doctor inside their own body. Through this event, we recommend that you take time to meet your body fully through actual walking, eating and listening—while becoming aware that you can wake that doctor and recognise the ability to recover by yourself, and keep staying awake so that you can manage your own body.”
The event is hosted by Healing News and sponsored by K Future 의원.
Applications are open to up to 30 people, and to attend, after the deposit is made, you can leave the contact details and confirmation of the depositor by text message.
How to apply: Deposit 30,000 won to KakaoBank 3333-28-5245985 to Healing News, Oh Jihyun.
After the deposit, if you send the depositor name and mobile phone number by text message, we will send you a text message confirming the deposit and your attendance.
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