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Art activities related to healing art could be traced back to approximately 2,000 years when art was utilized as ritual ceremony and cave drawings. During the Goryo and Chosun Dynasties (about 1,000 years) the traditional drawings and calligraphy have been used as a meditative form and mind training. Since 128 years ago when the wetsern medicine was formally introduced to Korean society, psychiatric treatments were also gradually introduced and the drawing activities were sporadically utilized as diversional activities in some psychiatric hosptials. Recently approximately 15 universities in Korea are running offical curricula of undergraduate, masters and/or Ph.D. courses majoring in art therapy. (Journal of The Korean Academy of Clinical Art Therapy 2008;3(2):79-81)