About
Dr. Kwon Yonghyun권용현
I trained as a physician, and I never stopped being one. What changed is that I stopped pretending the questions patients actually brought me fit inside the chart. This is where those questions led — and I have tried to follow them without abandoning the standard of evidence that made me useful in the first place.
mode 2,5
The path
How a physician ends up here.
Medical training
Korean medical school, then clinical practice
A conventional medical education and the years of practice that follow it — the foundation everything here rests on, and the reason the standard of evidence matters to me.
The questions that stayed
What the clinic couldn't answer
Patients kept presenting with things the chart had no column for. Rather than dismiss them or romanticise them, I went looking for what was actually known.
Training in practice
Qigong, Tai Chi, yoga, meditation
Decades inside traditions that have studied the felt body far longer than medicine has, learned as disciplines to practise rather than beliefs to hold.
Publishing & teaching
Books, lectures, and a society
A book of my own, a contributed chapter, lectures including work on the endocannabinoid system for the Korean Cannabinoid Association, and an invitation to serve as a director of an academic society of Spirit Medicine.
Now
Thailand — practice, Muay Thai, and the shelters
Living and teaching from Thailand. Muay Thai keeps the discipline honest and the body in the conversation. Part of the work supports an animal shelter, orphanages in Chiang Mai, and a refugee village in Mae Hong Son.
On the record
Credentials, stated plainly.
- Name
- Kwon Yonghyun (권용현) · known as MahKha
- Qualification
- MD — licensed physician
- Medical training
- Korean medical school (details to be listed)
- Practice disciplines
- Qigong · Tai Chi · Yoga · Meditation · Energy healing
- Published
- Author of 살려달라 · contributed chapter in a collected volume
- Lecturing
- Endocannabinoid system — Korean Cannabinoid Association
- Society role
- Invited director, academic society of Spirit Medicine
- Based
- Thailand · practising in English and Korean
Licence jurisdiction, registration number, and the full publication list with ISBNs and DOIs will be published here. A credential is only a credential if you can verify it — and until these are listed in full, treat them as claims rather than verified facts.
Thailand
I live and teach here. The distance from where I trained turned out to be useful — it made it easier to see which parts of medicine were medicine and which parts were habit.
Muay Thai
I train. It keeps me honest: a discipline where the body's feedback is immediate and cannot be argued with is a good corrective for anyone who works with subtler signals all day.
The shelters
Part of this work supports an animal shelter, orphanages in Chiang Mai, and a refugee village in Mae Hong Son. It is the least abstract thing I do.
On the name
MahKha
A nickname, and the one my students use. It is what this school is called — the practice belongs to a person, not to an institution, and I would rather you know whose hands you are in.