A special meditation journey will be held on the 27th at K Mirae Member Clinic, set in the woods along the slopes of Gonjiam in Docheok-myeon, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do. The event is organized by Healing News and is a time that moves from lectures about the body to walking meditation and then to a healing-meditation storytelling piano performance. The session was planned for patients currently admitted to K Mirae Member Clinic and for those who need recovery of both body and mind. It opens at 5 p.m. with a lecture on body health by director Byeongsik Jo, followed by experiencing food meditation while sharing an organic vegetarian dinner prepared with vegetables grown inside the hospital. The program then heads out at dusk for a walk along the forest path, culminating in a healing-meditation piano performance—experiencing music with the body. It is a journey in which learning, food, steps, and music connect into a single flow.
A stage for patients at the hospital amid a 25,000-pyeong forest
K Mirae Member Clinic is a clinic that helps recovery based on cancer convalescence and anti-cancer regenerative treatment, as well as natural healing and integrative medicine. Within a forest environment covering 25,000 pyeong, it runs programs for immune management, rehabilitation, and recovery. If an urban hospital is placed under noise and fluorescent lights, then outside the windows here, the seasons move exactly as they are.
This concert began with pianist Eunkyung Shin’s long-held wish to hold a healing concert for patients who urgently need recovery of the body. Instead of patients having to travel to the performance hall, the music walks into the place where recovery is needed. For patients battling illness, meeting the performance in the space where they stay—without having to seek out a distant concert venue—makes a considerable difference. The healing meditation time for patients also comes to feel like something precious for participants who are not patients.
Changing the environment so cells can work again, director Byeongsik Jo’s K Regenerative Medicine
The topic of the lecture held before the concert is the healing of the body. Director Byeongsik Jo, the speaker, graduated in 1990 from Pusan National University College of Medicine and, while working as a practicing physician in Busan, felt the limits of modern medicine and entered the path of natural medicine. After that, he opened a natural medicine clinic in the mountains of Gyeongju at an altitude of 500 meters and met patients with chronic illnesses and intractable diseases for a long time. In 2023, he moved to Gonjiam and took on the role of representative director of K Mirae Member Clinic. He previously served as the inaugural chair of the Korean Society of Natural Medicine, and currently works as chair of the K Regenerative Medicine Research Group and as an honorary chair of the Clinical Integrative Medicine Cancer Society.
Director Jo established the concept of K Regenerative Medicine in 2025 by tying together the principles of regenerative medicine and natural healing. The core idea is to restore the body’s environment so that cells can revive themselves, rather than suppressing disease. He explains it in sequence: ensuring oxygen and nutrients properly reach cells, helping mitochondria generate energy, and normalizing signal exchange across cell membranes. The same logic applies to placing mind-body medicine and meditation, including danjeon breathing, within the treatment program and expanding it into the concept of whole-person healing.
Last May, 『If You Regenerate Cells, Disease Gets Better』 was the book that organized this viewpoint. In the book, Director Jo diagnoses that while modern medicine excels at emergency situations and suppressing diseases, it has limits in fundamental recovery for chronic illnesses 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 ends, dinner follows. It is an organic vegetarian meal prepared with vegetables grown inside the K Mirae Member Clinic. It is a meal prepared while strictly sticking to the viewpoint that what you eat is part of treatment—an approach that the co-director has emphasized. This is not simply about eating healthy food; it is also a time to experience a food-meditation session in which you can feel the recovery process that begins with a healthy meal.
After the meal, a 30-minute walking time is scheduled. It is a period to walk slowly or climb lightly along the hospital’s terrain surrounded by the forest. At the end of August, when the sun is setting and the air is cooling, the forest path itself has the conditions for walking meditation. It is also a place to settle your breathing and slow the pace of your body before the performance begins. This is time to walk the forest path and fully feel oneness with yourself.
The configuration in which lectures, meals, walking, and music continue is not the result of listing separate programs. It is the order of understanding the body, bringing it into your life, moving it, and feeling with your body.
A time to listen with your body without needing to understand music, pianist Eunkyung Shin
Pianist Eunkyung Shin is a performer who delivers music through storytelling rather than just playing it. Shin has created a stage with the hope that classical music and original compositions, Western music and our own music, will freely cross paths, and that each person’s music will be newly recreated inside their own lives and memories—taking root as cherished recollections.
She has stood on stages including EBS Space Gonggam and Arte TV, and has explored points where music, the body, and stories meet while collaborating with the National Contemporary Dance Company. She has steadily held concerts in the 〈Telling Your Story Through Sound〉 series, featuring themes such as friendship, love, happiness, the Korean Dream, longing, “I,” and “the body.” This year, 〈Telling Your Story Through Sound, Body〉 that she presented in February at the JCC Art Center with dancer Sangdon Lee, continued on to a May stage at the Gangnam The Shams Gallery.
Pianist Eunkyung Shin previously said she wanted to share with the audience a question about how they should look at and accept their own bodies, and that she dedicates this performance to everyone—those struggling with their bodies and all living beings who live with their bodies. In this sense, the seating area where that dedication reaches most precisely is 마련되 is set for this stage.
From Rameau to Morricone, a program that flows in one breath
The program for this concert was written as a single long breath, moving from Baroque through Romanticism and onward to the modern era. Rameau’s 〈Gavotte and Six Variations〉 opens the door quietly, and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17, the 〈Tempest〉 third movement rolls in like waves. Robert Schumann’s 〈Davidsbündlermusik〉 and Chopin’s Prelude Op. 28-4, the Nocturne Op. 48-1, and the 〈Fantaisie-Impromptu〉 broaden the texture of emotion.
After Morricone’s 〈Cinema Paradise〉 love theme permeates the audience like a scene from an old memory and heads toward the finale, warmth rises onstage. It starts by passing through 〈Dedication to Édith Piaf with Impromptu No. 15〉 and then Volcom’s 〈Elegant Ghost〉. The flow, shaped by tidying up, then rippling, and then easing into repetition, resembles a single long meditation session.
Why music inside a hospital
The time spent fighting illness turns the body into something to be managed and observed. Between numbers and schedules and the next tests, the body is often treated only as a problem that must be fixed. The place where this concert will be held is the opposite of that. It is a time when you do not have to try to understand music, and you do not have to accomplish anything. It is a time when you just need to feel the sound reaching some part of your shoulders or chest.
Director Byeongsik Jo’s view that you create an environment in which cells come back to life meets pianist Eunkyung Shin’s stage, which leads music to seep into the senses of living. This is a place to view the body not as a target to defeat, but as something to live alongside. This is also why the meditation-focused media outlet Healing News planned this concert. Healing does not come only as a result of treatment.
If you can hear the stories your own body sends in the brief stillness between the end of one piece and the start of the next, then this stage has done its part.
O Hyesun, publisher of Healing News, said, “Everyone has a doctor inside their body. Through this event, we recommend that you take time to fully face your body by walking, eating, and listening in real life, with the intention of waking up that doctor and recognizing your ability to recover on your own—and always staying alert so you can control your own body.”
This event is hosted by Healing News and sponsored by K Mirae Member Clinic.
Applications are limited to a total of 30 people. To attend, after you deposit money, you can leave the deposit details along with your contact information and the confirmation of the depositor by sending it as a text message.
How to apply: Deposit 30,000 won to KakaoBank 3333-28-5245985 to Healing News, Ojihyeon.
After making the deposit, if you send the depositor’s name and mobile phone number by text, we will send you a text message confirming your deposit and attendance.
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