The ideas of p’ungsu (風水, wind and water) in the Context of Korea

This article is about the ideas of p’ungsu, Korea’s traditional outlook on nature and geography, has been used to select the sites of houses and graves. The purpose of this article is to analyse the ideas of p’ungsu as the method of interpreting metaphorically the sites of church building according to Korean folk faith and theology. In this article, I intend first to compare Korea’s outlook on nature, considered from the viewpoint of Korean folk faith, with the conception of ideal land, that is, a sacred place, Paradise and Utopia, seen from the standpoint of the science of religion and theology of Christianity.