Hong-Key Yoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 220426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hong-Key Yoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hong-Key |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoon |
| SIGNATURE | YOON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3639-2555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pre-European Māori Pā as a Model for Traditional Hilltop Fortresses in Wider World Context
The two types of pre-European settlements of the Māori people are pā—a palisaded fortress, and kainga-unfortified settlements on flatland. Pā are normally located on strategically chosen sites where natural defence conditions, such as the top of a cliff or steep slope, headland or hilltop, are available. A well palisaded pā and unfortified or crudely palisaded kainga nearby are mutually dependant on each other for security and resources. The crop…
Ch'Ŏnhado, a Traditional Korean Map of the World
This paper attempts to understand the origin of the traditional Korean Ch'ŏnhado map by comparing and critiquing previous scholarship on the map's origins and by explaining the map's origins through a geomentality lens. Scholars have argued whether Ch'ŏnhado was to embrace the geographical information from Western nations, a Korean interpretation of this information, or an expression of anti-Western sentiment. This paper argues that: (1) Ch'ŏnhad…
Ideas relating to humanity–nature relationships in Korean folk narratives reflecting geomantic values
In Korean folk narratives related to geomancy (p’ungsu in Korean, fengshui in Chinese), the relationship between humans and nature is a dominant theme. This paper uses three traditional Korean folk narratives to analyse and explore three different ideas associated with humanity’s relationship with nature. Firstly, the story of ‘Ulsanam Mountain peak’ is used to explore the idea that humanity is a reorganiser of nature. Secondly, the story of ‘The…
Toponyms on the ice
Place names serve a symbolic function in enforcing colonial power over landscapes. Within colonial locales, place names reproduce and reflect the ideological goals of settlers to reinforce or claim space for an individual, group or nation. One toponymically understudied colonial region where place names play a prominent role is the Antarctic, where the names of research bases promote the cultural power of settler nations to symbolically claim the…
Iconographical landscape warfare
Iconographical landscape warfare is one example of conflict that refers to a broad spectrum of encounters between opposing social groups who share a common reading of cultural landscapes. This 'warfare' ranges from expressions of violent force to seemingly banal everyday practices. Iconographical landscape warfare works through a dual process of denaturalising/renaturalising landscapes, where the interpretations of certain features are either era…
Geomancy
Geomancy, or fengshui (meaning “wind and water” in Chinese), is “the unique and highly systemized ancient Chinese art of selecting auspicious sites and arranging harmonious structures on them by evaluating the surrounding landscape and cosmological directions.” It has played a key role in the site selection and landscape design of cities and rural settlements, temples and monuments, as well as graves and houses in East Asia.
Indigenous “Folk” Geographical Ideas and Knowledge
This paper advocates the need for studying indigenous folk geographical ideas and knowledge in addition to academic geographic ideas and knowledge to encompass all types of geographic tradition in a cross-cultural context. To date, historians of geographic ideas and knowledge in the West have mainly paid attention to Western academic geographic knowledge. Folk and academic geographic ideas and knowledge interact with and influence each other. Aca…
The Korean Folk Custom Forbidding The Establishment of Water Wells
For over a thousand years many settlements in Korea forbid the digging of water-wells. This custom can be explained using geomancy, which personifies local landscapes or names them after animate or inanimate objects. In ‘sailing boat’ landscapes the digging of water-wells was prohibited because this was viewed as analogous to making a hole in the bottom of a boat, which would thus bring misfortune to local residents. Based on this geomantic reaso…
Ethno‐Economic Satellite
Recent studies on the residential patterns of Asian immigrants in Pacific Rim countries have revealed a new form of suburban ethnic settlements – ethnoburbs. The geographic distribution of Koreans in Auckland indicates that an ethnoburb‐like concentration has been developed in this small but rapidly increasing population group: Koreans are residentially clustered but not isolated from other population groups in an absolute sense. Interestingly, h…
Human Modification of Korean Landforms for Geomantic Purposes
The geomantic idea of chosan pibo is a particular way of remedying the inadequacies of a geomantic landscape by building small mounds of earth or stones and has been a significant motivation for modifying the environment in Korea. This idea is a part of ancient Chinese geomancy, or feng shui, for determining auspicious sites. Historically, three principal geomantic means have been used to compensate for shortcomings at an auspicious site: buildin…
Korean Visitors to New Zealand
Morality, Goodness and Love
Resource development takes place through the transformation of social institutions. The moral dimension is of crucial importance in the evolution of associated management regimes. More than just a code of ethics, moralities are predicated on what is understood to be 'the good'. Recognition of the good requires a rhetoric beyond those of power and interest. This paper proposes a rhetoric of love. Within this conception of morality, the management …
Morality, goodness and love
Resource development takes place through the transformation of social institutions. The moral dimension is of crucial importance in the evolution of associated management regimes. More than just a code of ethics, moralities are predicated on what is understood to be ‘the good’. Recognition of the good requires a rhetoric beyond those of power and interest. This paper proposes a rhetoric of love. Within this conception of morality, the management …
The Origin and Decline of a Japanese Temple Town
The monzenmachi (temple town; i.e., shopping neighborhood on streets leading to the main gate of a temple) has been one of the most important forms of urban settlement in Japan. The Saidaiji Temple has developed a typical monzenmachi in front of its temple gate. Since World War II the prosperity of its monzenmachi has declined because of the development of modern transportation systems and nearby shopping malls. This paper explains the developmen…
Two different geomentalities, two different gardens
On Geomentality
Loess cave-dwellings in Shaanxi province, China
An early Chinese idea of a dynamic environmental cycle
Environmental determinism and geomancy
The image of nature in geomancy
Folklore and the Study of Environmental Attitudes
(1979). FOLKLORE AND THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 635-637
An Analysis of Korean Geomancy Tales
The image of nature in geomancy
Ethno‐Economic Satellite
Recent studies on the residential patterns of Asian immigrants in Pacific Rim countries have revealed a new form of suburban ethnic settlements – ethnoburbs. The geographic distribution of Koreans in Auckland indicates that an ethnoburb‐like concentration has been developed in this small but rapidly increasing population group: Koreans are residentially clustered but not isolated from other population groups in an absolute sense. Interestingly, h…
On Geomentality
Human Modification of Korean Landforms for Geomantic Purposes
The geomantic idea of chosan pibo is a particular way of remedying the inadequacies of a geomantic landscape by building small mounds of earth or stones and has been a significant motivation for modifying the environment in Korea. This idea is a part of ancient Chinese geomancy, or feng shui, for determining auspicious sites. Historically, three principal geomantic means have been used to compensate for shortcomings at an auspicious site: buildin…
Morality, Goodness and Love
Resource development takes place through the transformation of social institutions. The moral dimension is of crucial importance in the evolution of associated management regimes. More than just a code of ethics, moralities are predicated on what is understood to be 'the good'. Recognition of the good requires a rhetoric beyond those of power and interest. This paper proposes a rhetoric of love. Within this conception of morality, the management …
Morality, goodness and love
Resource development takes place through the transformation of social institutions. The moral dimension is of crucial importance in the evolution of associated management regimes. More than just a code of ethics, moralities are predicated on what is understood to be ‘the good’. Recognition of the good requires a rhetoric beyond those of power and interest. This paper proposes a rhetoric of love. Within this conception of morality, the management …
Environmental determinism and geomancy
Toponyms on the ice
Place names serve a symbolic function in enforcing colonial power over landscapes. Within colonial locales, place names reproduce and reflect the ideological goals of settlers to reinforce or claim space for an individual, group or nation. One toponymically understudied colonial region where place names play a prominent role is the Antarctic, where the names of research bases promote the cultural power of settler nations to symbolically claim the…
Iconographical landscape warfare
Iconographical landscape warfare is one example of conflict that refers to a broad spectrum of encounters between opposing social groups who share a common reading of cultural landscapes. This 'warfare' ranges from expressions of violent force to seemingly banal everyday practices. Iconographical landscape warfare works through a dual process of denaturalising/renaturalising landscapes, where the interpretations of certain features are either era…
Two different geomentalities, two different gardens
An Analysis of Korean Geomancy Tales
An Analysis of Korean Geomancy Tales
Folklore and the Study of Environmental Attitudes
(1979). FOLKLORE AND THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 635-637
The image of nature in geomancy
Environmental determinism and geomancy
An early Chinese idea of a dynamic environmental cycle
Loess cave-dwellings in Shaanxi province, China
On Geomentality
Two different geomentalities, two different gardens
The Origin and Decline of a Japanese Temple Town
The monzenmachi (temple town; i.e., shopping neighborhood on streets leading to the main gate of a temple) has been one of the most important forms of urban settlement in Japan. The Saidaiji Temple has developed a typical monzenmachi in front of its temple gate. Since World War II the prosperity of its monzenmachi has declined because of the development of modern transportation systems and nearby shopping malls. This paper explains the developmen…
Morality, Goodness and Love
Resource development takes place through the transformation of social institutions. The moral dimension is of crucial importance in the evolution of associated management regimes. More than just a code of ethics, moralities are predicated on what is understood to be 'the good'. Recognition of the good requires a rhetoric beyond those of power and interest. This paper proposes a rhetoric of love. Within this conception of morality, the management …
Morality, goodness and love
Resource development takes place through the transformation of social institutions. The moral dimension is of crucial importance in the evolution of associated management regimes. More than just a code of ethics, moralities are predicated on what is understood to be ‘the good’. Recognition of the good requires a rhetoric beyond those of power and interest. This paper proposes a rhetoric of love. Within this conception of morality, the management …
Korean Visitors to New Zealand
Human Modification of Korean Landforms for Geomantic Purposes
The geomantic idea of chosan pibo is a particular way of remedying the inadequacies of a geomantic landscape by building small mounds of earth or stones and has been a significant motivation for modifying the environment in Korea. This idea is a part of ancient Chinese geomancy, or feng shui, for determining auspicious sites. Historically, three principal geomantic means have been used to compensate for shortcomings at an auspicious site: buildin…
Ethno‐Economic Satellite
Recent studies on the residential patterns of Asian immigrants in Pacific Rim countries have revealed a new form of suburban ethnic settlements – ethnoburbs. The geographic distribution of Koreans in Auckland indicates that an ethnoburb‐like concentration has been developed in this small but rapidly increasing population group: Koreans are residentially clustered but not isolated from other population groups in an absolute sense. Interestingly, h…
The Korean Folk Custom Forbidding The Establishment of Water Wells
For over a thousand years many settlements in Korea forbid the digging of water-wells. This custom can be explained using geomancy, which personifies local landscapes or names them after animate or inanimate objects. In ‘sailing boat’ landscapes the digging of water-wells was prohibited because this was viewed as analogous to making a hole in the bottom of a boat, which would thus bring misfortune to local residents. Based on this geomantic reaso…
Geomancy
Geomancy, or fengshui (meaning “wind and water” in Chinese), is “the unique and highly systemized ancient Chinese art of selecting auspicious sites and arranging harmonious structures on them by evaluating the surrounding landscape and cosmological directions.” It has played a key role in the site selection and landscape design of cities and rural settlements, temples and monuments, as well as graves and houses in East Asia.
Indigenous “Folk” Geographical Ideas and Knowledge
This paper advocates the need for studying indigenous folk geographical ideas and knowledge in addition to academic geographic ideas and knowledge to encompass all types of geographic tradition in a cross-cultural context. To date, historians of geographic ideas and knowledge in the West have mainly paid attention to Western academic geographic knowledge. Folk and academic geographic ideas and knowledge interact with and influence each other. Aca…
Iconographical landscape warfare
Iconographical landscape warfare is one example of conflict that refers to a broad spectrum of encounters between opposing social groups who share a common reading of cultural landscapes. This 'warfare' ranges from expressions of violent force to seemingly banal everyday practices. Iconographical landscape warfare works through a dual process of denaturalising/renaturalising landscapes, where the interpretations of certain features are either era…
Ideas relating to humanity–nature relationships in Korean folk narratives reflecting geomantic values
In Korean folk narratives related to geomancy (p’ungsu in Korean, fengshui in Chinese), the relationship between humans and nature is a dominant theme. This paper uses three traditional Korean folk narratives to analyse and explore three different ideas associated with humanity’s relationship with nature. Firstly, the story of ‘Ulsanam Mountain peak’ is used to explore the idea that humanity is a reorganiser of nature. Secondly, the story of ‘The…
Toponyms on the ice
Place names serve a symbolic function in enforcing colonial power over landscapes. Within colonial locales, place names reproduce and reflect the ideological goals of settlers to reinforce or claim space for an individual, group or nation. One toponymically understudied colonial region where place names play a prominent role is the Antarctic, where the names of research bases promote the cultural power of settler nations to symbolically claim the…
Ch'Ŏnhado, a Traditional Korean Map of the World
This paper attempts to understand the origin of the traditional Korean Ch'ŏnhado map by comparing and critiquing previous scholarship on the map's origins and by explaining the map's origins through a geomentality lens. Scholars have argued whether Ch'ŏnhado was to embrace the geographical information from Western nations, a Korean interpretation of this information, or an expression of anti-Western sentiment. This paper argues that: (1) Ch'ŏnhad…
Pre-European Māori Pā as a Model for Traditional Hilltop Fortresses in Wider World Context
The two types of pre-European settlements of the Māori people are pā—a palisaded fortress, and kainga-unfortified settlements on flatland. Pā are normally located on strategically chosen sites where natural defence conditions, such as the top of a cliff or steep slope, headland or hilltop, are available. A well palisaded pā and unfortified or crudely palisaded kainga nearby are mutually dependant on each other for security and resources. The crop…
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