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== Publications ==
== Publications ==
* [1987] 'Modern Hotel English' (Hollym (publishing house)|Hollym)
His major published books include Passage to Korea (Marc Vérin Photographer),<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=Passage to Korea: 9781565912205: International Business Books @|url=https://www.amazon.com/Passage-Korea-David-Mason/dp/1565912209/|accessdate=2021-02-07|publisher=Amazon.com}}</ref> the [[Lonely Planet]] "Korea: A Travel Survival Kit" guidebook of 1997,<ref>{{cite web|title=Books & Articles by Professor David A. Mason|url=http://www.san-shin.org/DAM-books.html|website=www.san-shin.org}}</ref> "Spirit Of The Mountains: Korea's San-shin and Traditions of Mountain-Worship"<ref>{{cite web|author=Weatherhill (Author)|date=|title=Spirit Of The Mountains (9781565911079): Weatherhill: Books|url=https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Mountains-Weatherhill/dp/1565911075/|accessdate=2021-02-07|publisher=Amazon.com}}</ref> ([[Hollym (publishing house)|Hollym]], 1999) about Sanshin, "The Korean Forest Culture of the Baekdu-daegan: Spiritual and Folk Heritages along Korea’s Grand "Tiger's Spine" Mountain-System" in 2010<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ancient Forest Culture of the Baekdu Daegan|url=https://issuu.com/hikekorea/docs/kfs_booklet_final_standard_size|website=Issuu}}</ref> (photos by Roger Shepherd<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=Hike Korea|url=https://www.hikekorea.com/}}</ref>), "An Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism"<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=An Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism: David A. Mason, Ven. Hyewon|url=https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Korean-Buddhism-David-Hyewon/dp/8957463666/ref=sr_1_1|accessdate=2021-02-07|publisher=|isbn=9788957463666}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=An Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism - introduction and ordering|url=http://www.san-shin.org/EncyclopediaKoreanBuddhism.html|website=www.san-shin.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=February 10, 2014|title=570개 키워드로 보는 한국불교 영문 백과사전|url=http://www.ibulgyo.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=131532|website=불교신문}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=|title=570개 키워드 통해 본 한국 불교문화 < BOOKS < 문화 < 기사본문 - 현대불교신문|url=http://www.hyunbulnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=278445|accessdate=2021-02-07|publisher=Hyunbulnews.com}}</ref> and "Solitary Sage: the Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of "Go-un" Choi Chi-won"<ref>{{cite web|title=Solitary Sage: new book about Go-un Choi Chi-won|url=http://www.san-shin.org/Goun-Solitary-Sage-Choi-Chiwon.html|website=www.san-shin.org}}</ref> in 2006 as an Independent E-book, and hardcover on Amazon.com;<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=Solitary Sage: The Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of Korea's "Go-un" Choi Chi-won: Mason, David A.|url=https://www.amazon.com/Solitary-Sage-Profound-Go-Chi-won/dp/1329565932/|accessdate=2021-02-07|publisher=|isbn=9781329565937}}</ref> it garnered positive reviews.<ref>{{cite web|date=May 13, 2016|title=US author traces Solitary Sage's footsteps|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2021/02/142_204691.html|website=koreatimes}}</ref> He was the overall editor and co-author of "The Colors of Korean Buddhism: 30 Icons and their Stories" published by the Korean Buddhism Promotion Foundation,<ref>{{cite web|date=2018-05-30|title=Korean Buddhism Promotion Foundation_KBPF home|url=https://www.kbpf.org/kbpf-org/?lang=en#|accessdate=2021-02-07|publisher=KBPF}}</ref> distributed to all participants at the [[2010 G20 Seoul summit]] in November 2010.<ref>{{cite web|date=August 26, 2010|title=Balu-gongyang: Korean monastic temple-meals|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2021/02/293_72067.html|website=koreatimes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=March 25, 2010|title=Songgwang Temple Spreads Monastic Jewel|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2021/02/293_62996.html|website=koreatimes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=February 25, 2010|title=Seokguram: Koreas Supreme Grotto|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2021/02/293_61458.html|website=koreatimes}}</ref>
* [1987] 'POSCO Business English' ([[POSCO|Pohang Steel Company]])
* [1993] 'Korea: A Sensory Journey' (Woojin Publishers) with photography by Marc Vérin
* [1997] 'Korea: A Travel Survival Kit' [[Lonely Planet]]
* [1999] 'Spirit Of The Mountains: Korea's San-shin and Traditions of Mountain-Worship' (Hollym (publishing house)|Hollym) (Korean edition 2002)
* [2005] 'Passage to Korea' (Hollym (publishing house)|Hollym) with photography by Marc Vérin
* [2010] 'The Colors of Korean Buddhism: 30 Icons and their Stories' overall editor and co-author (Korean Buddhism Promotion Foundation) published for the [[2010 G20 Seoul summit]] in November 2010
* [2010] 'Baekdu Daegan Trail: Hiking Korea's Mountain Spine' contributing editor (Seoul Selection)
* [2010] 'The Korean Forest Culture of the Baekdu-daegan: Spiritual and Folk Heritages along Korea’s Grand Tiger's Spine Mountain-System' (Forest Recreation and Culture Division of the [[Korea Forest Service]] for the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification 2011) with photography by Roger Shepherd
* [2013] 'An Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism' (Unjusa) cowritten with Ven. Hyewon
* [2016] 'Solitary Sage: the Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of "Go-un" [[Choe Chiwon|Choi Chi-won]]'
* [2017] 'Sports, Leisure and Games in Korea: A Sourcebook' contributing editor of English version ([[Academy of Korea Studies]] Press)


==Pioneering globalization of the Baekdu-daegan mountains==
==Pioneering globalization of the Baekdu-daegan mountains==

Revision as of 16:17, 14 September 2021

David Alan Mason (born November 11, 1957) is an American academic usually based in South Korea. He has been a professor of cultural tourism at Sejong University in Seoul since 2014. He has authored about 10 prominent books on Korean culture, spirituality, travel and mountains, and serves as a scholar, author, public speaker and tour guide. He remains a well-known authority on Korean spiritual traditions of all kinds,[1] especially about his core topic the Sansin (산신, 山神, Sanshin)[2] deity and their shrines found throughout Korea called Sansin-gak (산신각, 山神閣), integral parts of Korean Buddhist temples, Korean Shamanism and village life.[3]

Personal life and education

Mason was born in Detroit, and raised in its suburb Birmingham, Michigan. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and San Francisco State University in 1981, studying Oriental Philosophy, Environmental Biology, Health and Macrobiotics. He first visited Korea in July 1982,[4] staying for a year as an English teacher and growing increasingly interested in the traditional culture found in its mountains, ultimately turning it into a career.[5] He moved to Korea permanently in January 1986. He received his M.A. in Korean Studies from Yonsei University of Seoul in 1997, majoring in the history of Korean traditional religions.

Career and appearances

Mason worked for Kangwon National University 1988–97, Yonsei University Wonju Campus 1999–2000, Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism 2001–05, and the Tourism College of Kyung Hee University 2005–13.

He has been featured many times in Korean media, including print, television and radio programs, such as the Arirang TV interview-show "Heart to Heart"[6] hour-long episode on May 21, 2013 entitled "David A. Mason, an established Korean mountain spirit expert".[7] He also appeared in the half-hour episode 8 of Arirang TV's "K-Phile"[8] (Korea-Lover) series entitled "Sanshin, a Symbol of Korea's Nature and Culture" on Dec 14 2016,[9] and in a section of the Chosun Mountain-TV program entitled "산의 부활 Rejuvenescence of Mountain", about the "K-Mountain" promotional effort launched that autumn by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Mason's research activities, in January 2017.

He has contributed to The Korea Times several times over the years, starting in 1983.[10] To promote cultural tourism in Korea, he created a database of his top 40 sites in Korea for the World Pilgrimage Guide.[11][12] He assisted Tony MacGregor and cohorts in designing and trekking the Wonhyo Trail pilgrimage-tourism project in 2011.[13][14]

He assisted in the creation of Korea's Temple Stay program in 2002.[15]

He has been an English editor and writer the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, and an adjunct professor of international tourism for the Hanyang University Graduate School of Tourism, and taught courses on the history of Korean culture and Northeast Asian Relations for Hanyang's International Summer School Intensive Program.[16]

He has served on the managing boards of and been a frequent lecturer for Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch (RAS[17]) in Seoul and contributed to the society's journal Transactions, writing on "Sacred Aspects and Assets of Taebaek-san"[18], "Jirisan: Sacred Aspects and Assets"[19], "Mountain Tourism and Religious Heritage Sites: A Fresh Paradigm"[20] and "Go-un Choi Chi-won’s Pungryu"[21].

Mason was an invited speaker on Korea's Religious Tourism features at the UNWTO's "International Conference on Tourism, Religions and Dialogue of Cultures" in Córdoba, Spain in October 2007[22] and "International Congress on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage" in Fatima, Portugal in November 2017.[23] In addition, his research paper "The Baekdu-daegan Region as Korea's Fresh & Green Multi-faith Pilgrimage-Tourism Destination" was published by the "Religious Tourism in Asia and the Pacific" Report of UNWTO in April 2011.[24][25]

Publications

  • [1987] 'Modern Hotel English' (Hollym (publishing house)|Hollym)
  • [1987] 'POSCO Business English' (Pohang Steel Company)
  • [1993] 'Korea: A Sensory Journey' (Woojin Publishers) with photography by Marc Vérin
  • [1997] 'Korea: A Travel Survival Kit' Lonely Planet
  • [1999] 'Spirit Of The Mountains: Korea's San-shin and Traditions of Mountain-Worship' (Hollym (publishing house)|Hollym) (Korean edition 2002)
  • [2005] 'Passage to Korea' (Hollym (publishing house)|Hollym) with photography by Marc Vérin
  • [2010] 'The Colors of Korean Buddhism: 30 Icons and their Stories' overall editor and co-author (Korean Buddhism Promotion Foundation) published for the 2010 G20 Seoul summit in November 2010
  • [2010] 'Baekdu Daegan Trail: Hiking Korea's Mountain Spine' contributing editor (Seoul Selection)
  • [2010] 'The Korean Forest Culture of the Baekdu-daegan: Spiritual and Folk Heritages along Korea’s Grand Tiger's Spine Mountain-System' (Forest Recreation and Culture Division of the Korea Forest Service for the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification 2011) with photography by Roger Shepherd
  • [2013] 'An Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism' (Unjusa) cowritten with Ven. Hyewon
  • [2016] 'Solitary Sage: the Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of "Go-un" Choi Chi-won'
  • [2017] 'Sports, Leisure and Games in Korea: A Sourcebook' contributing editor of English version (Academy of Korea Studies Press)

Pioneering globalization of the Baekdu-daegan mountains

Before 2005 the Baekdu-daegan mountain-system, a connected web of all Korea's mountains that defines the geography of the Korean Peninsula, remained entirely unknown to the world outside Korea, but in that year professor Mason began to promote it to the global audience in English by establishing a website[26] and publishing articles. He served as the Contributing Editor to the 1st Edition of the "Baekdu-daegan Trail Guidebook" authored by Written by Roger Shepherd[27] and Andrew Douch[28] published by Seoul Selection in July 2010, which garnered wide attention from international travel-hikers.[29][30][31][32][33] He was appointed as the Republic of Korea's Honorary Ambassador of the Baekdu-daegan mountain-system in January 2011.[34][35][36][37] Seven months prior to this, a seminar and publicity-event about the Baekdu-daegan was held by the Korea Forest Research Institute at the Mungyeong Saejae Pass on June 10th 2010, featuring speeches by Director-General Shin Jun-hwan, Professor David A. Mason and the famous Korean poet Ko Un[38][39] This event was widely covered in Korean domestic media.[40][41] Two long profile-interview articles followed this in The Korea Herald newspaper on January 27 2011[42] and Aug 25 2011.[43]

References

  1. ^ Neff, Robert (11 April 2021). "Walking in the Footsteps of the Past: Mount Gyeryong - "Chicken Dragon Mountain"". The Korea Times. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Sanshin-gak: Mountain-spirit venerated in Korean temples". koreatimes. August 12, 2010.
  3. ^ Dunbar, Jon (9 August 2021). "Cultural tourism scholar offers lectures on Korea's spiritual heritage". The Korea Times. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. ^ Kim, Se-jeong (8 June 2017). "Expats marvel at Korea's national parks". The Korea Times. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  5. ^ Dunbar, Jon (24 April 2018). "Shamans perform rituals to Mt. Gyeryong spirit". The Korea Times. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Video". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  7. ^ "Heart to Heart - EP2644-David Mason, an established Korean mountain spirit expert ... 데이비드 메이슨". YouTube. 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  8. ^ "Video". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  9. ^ "K-Phile(Ep.8) Sanshin, a Symbol of Korea's Nature and Culture _ Full Episode". YouTube. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  10. ^ Mason, David (8 January 1983). "Journey to Heart of Korea". The Korea Times. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  11. ^ Mason, David (12 October 2008). "Re-Branding Korean Tourism". The Korea Times. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  12. ^ Gray, Martin. "Sacred Sites of South Korea". World Pilgrimage Guide. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Expats undertake Buddhist pilgrimage across nation". koreatimes. December 6, 2011.
  14. ^ "Pilgrims re-enact Korean Buddhist journey". koreatimes. January 17, 2012.
  15. ^ "Interview with Korean Buddhism Expert Professor David A. Mason". July 2, 2014.
  16. ^ "Hanyang International Summer School (HISS) | Hanyang University, Seoul". Hanyang International Summer School.
  17. ^ "Royal Asiatic Society Korea – 한국왕립아시아학회". RAS Korea. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  18. ^ Mason, David (2006). "Sacred Aspects and Assets of Taebaek-san". Transactions. 81: 111–132. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  19. ^ Mason, David (2007). "Jirisan : Sacred Aspects and Assets". Transactions. 82: 89–106. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  20. ^ Mason, David (2012). "Mountain Tourism and Religious Heritage Sites: A Fresh Paradigm". Transactions. 87: 65–80. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  21. ^ Mason, David (2015). ""Go-un" Choi Chi-won's Pungryu". Transactions. 90: 57–70. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  22. ^ "UNWTO Religious-Tourism Conf in Cordoba". www.san-shin.org.
  23. ^ "Portugal Fatima Korea's Spiritual Mountain Tourism UNWTO ICRTP 2017". www.san-shin.org.
  24. ^ "Religious Tourism in Asia and the Pacific". World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). February 7, 2011. doi:10.18111/9789284413805.
  25. ^ "my Paper in UNWTO Religious-Tourism in Asia Report". www.san-shin.org.
  26. ^ David A. Mason, Roger Shepherd and Andrew Douch (2013-11-06). "Korea's Baekdu-daegan". San-shin.org. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  27. ^ Cite error: The named reference auto was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  28. ^ "Great Korean Mountain Trails". Great Korean Mountain Trails.
  29. ^ "Along the Trail of Korea's Mountain Spirits - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  30. ^ "New Zealander Hopes to Hike North and South Korea - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. 2013-07-30. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  31. ^ "Koreans See Source of National Energy in White Head Great Range". Koreatimes.co.kr. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  32. ^ "Korean mountain high for two Kiwi hikers". Koreajoongangdaily.joins.com. 2020-01-20. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  33. ^ "What Could Americans Learn From the Way Koreans Hike?". Backpacker.com. 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  34. ^ "Appointment as Public-Relations Ambassador of Baekdu-daegan". www.san-shin.org.
  35. ^ "An American Guide to the Baekdudaegan Mountain Range". english.chosun.com.
  36. ^ Herald, The Korea (January 10, 2011). "David Mason to promote Baekdu-daegan". www.koreaherald.com.
  37. ^ "백두대간에 반한 美 동양철학자 "그 매력과 가치 세계에 알리겠다"". www.chosun.com.
  38. ^ "백두대간의 가치와 미, 세계에 알린다". ktv.go.kr.
  39. ^ "BDDG Mungyeong Seminar KFRI 2010-6-10". www.san-shin.org.
  40. ^ "산림과학원, 문경새재서 '백두대간 산상 세미나' 성황". news.naver.com.
  41. ^ "BDDG Mungyeong Seminar KFRI 2010-6-10". www.san-shin.org.
  42. ^ Herald, The Korea (January 25, 2011). "'Baekdu-daegan long overlooked'". www.koreaherald.com.
  43. ^ Herald, The Korea (August 25, 2011). "Korea's sacred mountain sites". www.koreaherald.com.
  • his own large website "David A. Mason's San-shin Website: all about Korean Mountain-spirits and their shrines, Korea's sacred peaks and mountain-veneration traditions"
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