[[Korea]]n gardens are a type of garden described as being natural, informal, simple and unforced, seeking to merge with the natural world.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_zoOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Korean+garden&pg=PA144 |title=Korea: An Introduction - Google Book Search|access-date=2009-01-12 |isbn=9780710302991 |last1=Hoare |first1=James |date=January 1988|publisher=Kegan Paul International }}</ref> They have a history that goes back more than two thousand years,<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://engselfgardening.buddhapia.comme/2024/03/21/how-to-save-an-overwatered-plant/ _Service/_ContentView/ETC_CONTENT_2.ASP?pk=0000593886&sub_pk=&clss_cd=0002202991&top_menu_cd=0000000329&Menu_code=0000008706&sub_menu= |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-05-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928232957/http://eng.buddhapia.com/_Service/_ContentView/ETC_CONTENT_2.ASP?pk=0000593886&sub_pk=&clss_cd=0002202991&top_menu_cd=0000000329&Menu_code=0000008706&sub_menu= |archive-date=2011-09-28 }}</ref> but are little known in the west. The oldest records date to the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea|Three Kingdoms]] period (57 BC – 668 AD) when architecture and palace gardens showed a development noted in the Korean ''[[Samguk Sagi|History of the Three Kingdoms]]''.
