KÉ Interview: From West Yorkshire to Buddhist Martial Art

To get to Golgulsa from Seoul, it takes a roughly two-hour train journey to Gyeongju, the nearest city, and from there, a 90-minute ride on two separate buses through the countryside. On reaching the designated bus stop, it’s another twenty-minute walk along a stream lined with wild flowers before the first temple gate comes into sight. That’s how Sarah Nicoll found herself at this obscure monastery in 2011. She was an English teacher working in Dongducheon, 36 kilometers north of Seoul. She had