Recently, women-only public places have emerged rapidly and become widespread all over South Korea, but very little empirical research has been conducted on how women construct interaction order in such places. This article is a Goffmanian ethnography of how Korean women construct interaction order in a women-only public place. It presents ‘sacred game’ as a conceptual scheme to inform ethnographic research on interaction order. By using this conceptual scheme, we conduct an ethnography of a women-only yoga studio in South Korea. This research shows that women actively engage in sacred game when they appear in a women-only public place where situational proprieties are ambiguous and actions are inconsequential. This research suggests that creating this kind of public place would be better than merely creating a women-only public place itself in order to empower women to form a modern sociability.

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神圣的游戏：韩国女性专用公共场所的戈夫曼民族志

近来，女性专属公共场所迅速兴起，并在韩国遍地开花，但关于女性如何在此类场所构建互动秩序的实证研究却很少。这篇文章是关于韩国女性如何在仅限女性的公共场所构建互动秩序的 Goffmanian 民族志。它将“神圣游戏”作为一种概念方案，为交互秩序的人种学研究提供信息。通过使用这个概念方案，我们对韩国的一家女性瑜伽工作室进行了民族志研究。这项研究表明，当女性出现在女性专用的公共场所时，她们会积极参与神圣的游戏，而这些场所的情境礼仪不明确且行动无关紧要。