韓民族의 吉地 樂士 思考觀念에 대한 地理學的 解釋

Abstract

Tracing the word to its origin, Utopia is both no place and a good place. Utopias, whether fictional or experienced, are ways of thinking about the world. In the Western World, although Utopia and Utopian mean many different things, when they speak of Utopianism, they can speak og a persistent tradition of thought about the perfect society, in which perfection is defined as harmony. If so, how do Koreans think about Utopia? The Koreans believe that Utopia is both a good place and a actual existing place. They seek for the place in the real world. All kinds of Koreans, that is to say, Shamanists, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, believers of newly risen religions, so far as Christians, likely believe the Utopian land that being existed in a certain place of their lands. Regardless of the different opinions about the Utopian land among them, it is possible to summarize their Utopian ideas. These are summarized as P'ungsu(風水) ideas, a kind of geomancial views or the Korean traditional

geographic thoughts, and the view point about good village-sites of the Sirhak(實學) scholars.