Gang Il-Sun (1871–1909), also known as Jeungsan Kang Il-sun and known to his followers as JeungSan SangJeNim, is the founder of a religion that lead to the Korean religions Jeung San Do and Daesoon Jinrihoe. He was born what is now called Sinwol-ri, Deokcheon-myeon, Jeongeup-si, North Jeolla province of Korea. Jeung San Do, like Korean new religions (sinheung jonggyo, literally, "newly emerged religions") in general is a syncretism of Buddhism (Bul-gyo), Confucianism (Yu-gyo), Taoism (Do-gyo), certain elements borrowed from Christianity (Gidok-gyo) and an underlying Korean shamanism (Musok-Sinang).
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