The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy

A ‘Berkeley School’ tour de force in the mainstream erudite traditions of cultural geographers Sauer and Glacken, the sociologist Eberhard, and the anthropologist Kroeber. Yoon systematically and successfully explores the treacherously sublime multifaceted tip of the fengshui iceberg in Korea with a requisite geographical background and training unprecedented in the massive fengshui literature. He clearly articulates his discoveries in English, making accessible to a broad academic audience the essentials of the complex fengshui cosmography and its applications, from macro-scale to micro-scale.

This book is a volume of great interest for New Zealand and international, western readerships.

This book provides valuable resources and should be helpful for other researchers in understanding the cultural development of Feng Shui in Korea. It should also encourage more research in this area.

Yoon’s book is important because it reminds academic geographers of the undiminished educating power – the power to make the invisible visible and the mundane significant – hat the cultural-historical perspective of the Berkeley School of geography offers.
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Yoon’s work puts fengshui culture in Korea into focus in the most outstanding way. . . .It is a very comprehensive work, dealing with all relevant aspects of fengshui in Korean culture, including parallels to fengshui applications in China and Japan, the origin and evolution of fengshui, its interaction with established religion and its various principles and practices. . . .The Culture of Fengshui in Korea deserves the best of recommendations as a very timely and scholarly work.