The tale of a Buddhist monk who fails in his religious duties when he meets a group of nine gorgeous fairies and finds himself tempted by their beauty.
It can be challenging to breathe life into a fantasy world, especially if it’s a culture that’s not a fantasy analogue of your own. This book helps you that respect.
There is a tendency to summarize Hong Gildong as being “the Korean Robin Hood,” but this doesn’t really do Hong’s odyssey justice.
In a previous installment, I recommended some more modern musical resources. This time around, I’m turning to more traditional sources.
In this film, a man’s sister is kidnapped by Manchurian invaders and taken back across the border into Manchuria.
There is a tendency to summarize Hong Gildong as being “the Korean Robin Hood,” but this doesn’t really do Hong’s odyssey justice.
Blood Rain deals with a affluent island community with a thriving industry centered on its paper production.
For many game groups, music can be a great tool for evoking the mood and setting of a distant, fantastical place.
The Dutch Come to Korea is a great resource for anyone considering the idea of using a Korean-inspired fantasy setting like Jeosung as part of a wider world setting.
Blood Rain deals with a affluent island community with a thriving industry centered on its paper production.
In the movie Feng Shui, what if the burial site of an ancestor magically determined the fate and fortune of his or her descendants?
Eerie Tales from Old Korea collects a selection of tales compiled by a pair of Christian missionaries named James Gale and Homer B. Hulbert.
The character Byeon Gang-soe is often summarized as a kind of “Korean Casanova” due to their “legendary libido” but beyond that one trait, the two have very little in common.
In the wake of historical hell breaking loose in Korea, a much worse kind of hell breaks loose-the historical hell is that of the Imjin War.
A well executed Korean take on the popular Hollywood franchise, set during the transition from the fallen Koryo Dynasty and the beginning of the Joseon Dynasty.
There is a tendency to summarize Hong Gildong as being “the Korean Robin Hood,” but this doesn’t really do Hong’s odyssey justice.
The Along with the Gods duology is an adaptation of a popular webcomic by the same title, and is set in the modern era—or at least parts it.
Jeon Woochi is kind of the Korean equivalent to Merlin or Gandalf, except that unlike these other figures, he’s also a thief and a trickster.
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