Book Description
Folk paintings, the works of nameless painters of the late Joseon Period, express a freedom without irrespective of authority. They show ordinary people's true sensibilities and free social awareness, and through that the social consciousness and emotions of the Korean people. Korean minhwa include didactic elements (bookshelf diagrams and character pictures), hoping for blessing (flower and bird paintings and landscape paintings), fables (characters), and other stories, and the book's English translation is now complete.