An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology

by Choi Won-Oh and Won-oh Choi

This highly engaging volume by one of Korea's leading scholars of comparative mythology - the the first study of its kind in English - provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to Cosmology and Flood, Birth and Agriculture, Messengers of the Underworld, Shamans, Disease, Good Fortune, Love and Family, Gods of Village Shrines, and Heroes. Containing thirty traditional stories, the book is fully illustrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905246609
• ISBN13: 9781905246601
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 10.0"