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By Hong-Key Yoon

The time period Fengshui, which accurately ability 'wind and water,' is the traditional chinese language paintings of choosing an auspicious web site to supply the main harmonious dating among human and earth. The time period is usually translated as 'geomancy,' and has had a deep and wide influence on Korean, chinese language, and different East Asian cultures. Hong-key Yoon's e-book explores the character of geomantic ideas and the tradition of training them in Korean cultural contexts. Yoon first examines the character and historic history of geomancy, geomantic rules for auspicious websites (houses, graves, and towns) and gives an interpretation of geomantic ideas as practiced in Korea. Yoon seems to be at geomancy's impact on cartography, faith and philosophy, and concrete improvement in either Korea and China. ultimately, Yoon debates the position of geomancy within the iconographical struggle among eastern colonialism and Korean nationalism because it affected the cultural panorama of Kyongbok Palace in Seoul.

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