Korean gardens attempt to recreate the natural landscape with hills, streams and fields.
They are usually small in scale, but have an ideal harmony of nature and man. The prinicipal idea is to blend the structures into nature with the least possiible disturbance of the environment, because, in Korean mind, nature is already a perfect and an absolute entity that regenerates and sustains life. In the long tradition of garden making in Korea, adding man-made elements to the purest of spaces is considered a violation and something to be approached with utmost care and reservation. The essential idea behind the Korean art of garden building is to make it look more natural than nature itself. In many cases, what appears to be the result of very conscious efforts.