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Twenty‐four elderly Korean immigrants living in the Washington, DC, area were interviewed to explore their conceptualization of depression and its relationship to the Korean folk illnesses han, hwabyung, and shinggyongshaeyak. Informants perceived depression as a mood, but not as a serious illness except when it was related to the folk illnesses. Informants did not associate physical complaints with depression, which they saw as subject to control by the sufferer's will. Clinicians who recognize similarities between the folk illnesses and depression may be able to help Korean immigrant clients recognize that depressive affect may be a sign of illness that can be treated by medical professionals.

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