The purpose of this paper is to attempt a dialog between Mircea Eliade’s Homo Religiosus and Hae Wol Choi’s anthropology, in order to gain a more thorough and balanced understanding of Hae Wol’s view of the human being and the discussions surrounding it. This paper addresses the following questions. For Eliade, human beings are religious in the sense that they live a dialectic of manifestation in which eternity and time, transcendence and immanence intersect, but they can also be non-religious if they interpret the world through infantilized symbols. Haewool’s view of the human being is a subjective and active being who harbors and nurtures the Hanul within himself, but on the other hand, he is also a dynamic being who moves between transcendence and immanence, maintaining a respectful distance with a clear reverence for the Hanul. In conclusion, this paper has shown that just as Eliade’s religious man was a being who lived in a dynamic balance through the dialectic of manifestation, Hae-wol’s anthropology was also a balance of transcendence and immanence that revitalized the lifeless spirits and human beings in the institutionalized religious culture of the late Choseon Dynasty. However, when we seek to understand Hae-wol’s view of man in a more balanced way, we find that it is also a view of man that focuses on human subjectivity and agency, but also retains the simplicity and unpretentiousness of reverence for Han-ul as “subtle and unknowable beings”.