You are already radiant, already “hwan (桓)”

Hello! Today I’d like to begin with a word Koreans use without a second thought: hwanhada, “to be bright, to be radiant.”

Hwan (桓), the first character of the Hwandan Gogi, is not simply the name of a very ancient nation. It means bright light. Since the distant past, our ancestors believed that human beings are “beings filled with the light of heaven.”