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While the traditional Chinese geomancy and its mechanistic practice might aggravate our ecological crisis, by promoting man's creative participation in transforming the non-human world could the Korean geomancy(poongsoo) featuring the idea of bibo enrich our ecosystem and even cultivate our eco-friendly mindset. The substantially pro-environmental aspect of the Korean poongsoo is well-shown in a great number of bibo practices covering every corner of the peninsular, such as bibo trees and forests, bibo water ways or bibo pagodas. Significantly enough, the Korean bibo poongsoo goes along with deep ecology in its view of nature. The founder of deep ecology Arne Naess' 8 points correspond to the fundamental view of nature which lurks in the Korean poongsoo. The points 1, 2, 3 and 8 concern the intrinsic value of non-human nature. Just as deep ecology asserts that humans should respect non-human nature because it has its own inherent value, the Korean poongsoo induces humans to live as if nature matters. The concept of gi well-represents the intrinsic value of nature. And the positive practice of bibo in the Korean poongsoo is on the same track with Naess' emphasis on necessity of positive cultural transformation which is addressed in his points 4, 5, 6 and 8. The 7th point in which Naess stresses the life of 'greatness' also goes well along with the Korean geomancy favoring a life of harmony between humans and non-human nature in general. To sum up, the Korean geomancy is charged with our own contemporary eco-consciousness.