A seven-page report setting out the author's reflections on a feng shui (pungsu-jiri) class and the direction feng shui, a traditional discipline, should take in the future. The introduction cites a news article reporting that Exhuma (Pamyo), a film about feng shui, drew 6 million viewers within 11 days of release, with many middle-aged and older moviegoers, and interprets this as reflecting how familiar older generations are with the belief that burying ancestors in an auspicious site makes the family prosper and that the grave must be moved if problems arise.

It also recounts anecdotes about celebrities who reportedly suffered hardship after ancestral graves were poorly sited, and a house in Seoul's Bukchon known as unlucky, to stress the importance of choosing a good site and environment. The first chapter of the body cites research stating that the fundamental purpose of feng shui is to apply the energies of heaven and earth to human life in pursuit of prosperity and happiness, and explains the idea of the land as a mother and the belief that the feng shui of a grave is linked to the fate of descendants.

It then argues that companies carefully choosing the location of their headquarters and business sites share a philosophy with feng shui in seeking long-term growth, and uses an expression from the lectures, that even a bird chooses a forest when it wants to rest, to sum up why both people and companies should look for a good environment. The second chapter recounts how the author, while browsing interior design content, realized that her own tastes were connected to yin-yang and the five elements.

It introduces the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water) and the principles of mutual generation and mutual overcoming, and describes placing two colors in her room based on the explanation that green, symbolizing wood, raises motivation and relieves stress, while yellow, representing earth, symbolizes financial luck. The third chapter distinguishes yangtaek, applied to spaces for the living, from eumtaek, applied to graves of the dead, and introduces in turn research on the theory of ancestral energy resonance (donggi gameung), which holds that ancestors and descendants are connected by shared energy, the case of one clan, the class content that in yangtaek the speed at which good fortune arrives and the arrangement of furniture are important, and an article that looks at a former president's birthplace at the foot of Mt.

Geumo from the perspective of the four elements of dragon (mountain ridge), cave (energy point), sand (surrounding hills) and water. The fourth chapter stresses that feng shui is a discipline concerned with places to live in harmony between humans and nature, and proposes that research infrastructure be built, that more practical research be done for application to modern architecture and urban planning, that people versed in history, culture and the natural sciences be trained, and that efforts be made to explain it so the public can easily understand it.

The conclusion sums up the author's realization that the location and shape of roads and commercial buildings affect business success, and that many of the shops she often visits follow feng shui principles. I enjoy finding out how old beliefs survive in people's tastes and choices today, and this report showed me that feng shui is exactly such an example. Its way of stringing together traces of feng shui, from the audiences who filled theaters for Exhuma to companies' headquarters locations and interior color combinations on Instagram, makes you feel far more vividly than a textbook that feng shui is still a living part of everyday culture.

The part I related to most was applying yin-yang and the five elements to decorating a room. The confession that a color combination she already liked took on new meaning once she learned that green and yellow symbolize wood and earth suggests that traditional theory can lead not only to grand searches for auspicious sites but also to caring for small spaces. It even made me look again at the colors of the plant pot and desk lamp on my own desk.

After reading it, I thought that the most natural meeting point between traditional thought and today's life might be the small spaces inside our homes, and I wanted to start by looking around my own room. A few cautions if you use it: anecdotes about celebrities relocating graves and location examples involving particular companies and politicians may have unclear sources or be open to different interpretations, so if you use them it is safer to cite the article or paper precisely.

Also, reflections and theoretical explanations are mixed together in each chapter, so separating concepts learned in class from personal insights paragraph by paragraph will make for a much more readable reflection paper.