While the practice of stacking rock and balancing stones for art or devotion may not be widespread in Korea, it certainly was the concentrated discipline of at least one reclusive Buddhist, Yi Gapyong.
Commencing in the late 19th century, his years of labor produced the stone "pagodas" of Tapsa Temple, now within the Maisan ("Horses' Ears") Provincial Park. Travelers' descriptions of the site include towers which sway in the wind but do not fall, stones brought from mountains all over the Korean peninsula, and "mysterious construction which cannot be explained by modern geometry". Of perhaps 130 original towers, over 80 still stand, some even 10 meters high.
