Feng-shui is based on the orderly natural law that happens in earth and sky. It is also a science related to the earth, the ground of all the creatures living on the globe. Its purpose is right choice and management of residential space, the indispens...
Feng-shui is based on the orderly natural law that happens in earth and sky. It is also a science related to the earth, the ground of all the creatures living on the globe. Its purpose is right choice and management of residential space, the indispensable element for preservation of life and improvement of the quality of life. It is admittable that there is a critical viewpoint that Feng-shui is unscientifical. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that the Feng-shui is a wise philosophy of life of our ancestors and a traditional science systematized with an empirical theory.
In dictionary, the university is defined as 'an academic community that develops human intelligence based on the freedom of science and that takes the role of succeeding and developing the cultural heritage accumulated by humankind through creative activity of inquiring the truth, and at the same time a higher educational institution that cultivates intellectuals equipped with the quality of leadership'. In short, 'the university is a place where sciences are investigated and the results of sciences are educated'.
However, the environment the universities are in is becoming worse in and out of school. Universities will get in the crisis even the survival is not guaranteed if they insist on their proper function. This study analyzed the location and space of the campus of Yeungnam University using the empirical system of logics in Feng-shui. A precise analysis was also been carried out on the personnel elements like professors, staff and students and the campus, the space in which they have to spend most of their time for the education and research. Consideration was given to the device that makes the campus not insufficient for a space to cultivate the future men of ability as well as helps forming a pleasant and efficient environment.
Analysis of Yeungnam University in terms of Feng-shui showed that the Juryongmaek, that is one of Biseul Branches Jusan stretches from the BaekduDaegan and comes through Mt. Samseong and Mt. Baekja, is connected to the right backside of the main building of Yeungnam University at the end of the Juryongmaek. Centering around the Chenmaro, colleges of science and engineering are located to the left side fit for the spirit of challenging, strong and mannish Cheongyong and colleges of humanities and social sciences, to the left side fit for the spirit of quiet, relaxed and feminine Baekho. Then the Cheonma Arts Center is located in front, being agreed well with the concept of Sasinsa. Looking around the topography of nearby mountains and streams, the location of Gyeongsan campus is known to choose the rear-mountain-front-water and front-low-rear-high land, the land ideal and basic in Feng-shui, at Sanjincheo where the Naeryong ends. In case of Daemyeong-dong campus, the medical center and college of medicine are located at where Mt. Apsan and Mt. Bipa of Biseul Branches come out and form a peak after gradually rising up, and also at the place where 4 branches of E-W-S-N including Ipsu NaeryongMaek are stable.
The result of analysis suggests that Yeungnam University is in no way inferior to the site of academic research, making the use of the characteristics of the college that is growing as the best private school. It is a site very proper to the condition of house site that puts the vital power away in good order as it has a stable soil layer on low and wide ground, if some lacking part is supplemented in terms of Feng-shui.
The perfect propitious site, in Feng-shui, is not many and if any, it is hard to find. Therefore if a place equips somewhat adequacy and rationality as a location, it is enough to live while supplementing something lacking.
For Yeungnam University to grow and develop to become a global brand name college in world stage in the 21st century, the development of science and technology is of course important, but it is absolutely necessary to foster a high quality mental culture. It seems only natural that Feng-shui may play an important role here. In addition, only domestic Feng-shui should be expanded to Feng-shui for cosmopolitan and become the best practical science in the future, taking the role of supporter of human life and mind.