[Header] Origami Man, will you stay here? Will you join us on another adventure? … 2
[Recommendation] For the third installment of "K-Origami Maestro," a master of creative and artistic activities… 4
Basic symbols and conventions of origami… 6
Making full-fledged paper… 10

Part 1: Origami using color
Toucan… 12
Panda… 17
Orca… 22

Part 2 Same Animal, Different Appearance
American Cocker Spaniel… 30
Jindo dog… 34
English Cocker Spaniel … 40

Part 3 Application in the final stage
Salmon… 50
Kingfisher… 56
Rat… 62
Gamauji… 70

Part 4 Expression of movement (dynamics)
Manta Ray… 78
Kangaroo… 83
African buffalo… 93

Part 5: Expressing unusual shapes
African elephant… 102
Hippopotamus… 108
Eagle … 115
Toad… 125
Long-tailed macaque… 134
[Column] Gerard Tai Sovan, the Last Guardian of the Romantic Origami Era… 142

Part 6 Detailed Expression Techniques
Turtle… 146
Arowana (plastic-free version) … 156
Arowana (vinyl version) … 162
[Column] Origami Star YouTuber Joe Nakashima… 174

Part 7 Mask folding and application
Eric Joel Mask… 178
Hahoe mask… 180
Monk … 183
[Column] Himanshu Agrawal's Love for Origami… 186

Reclaiming passion and motivation for creation

Starting with how to prepare the paper itself in your own style, including how to make full hanji and process colored hanji, this book covers compositions that utilize a sense of color, the application of interpreting a single animal from various perspectives, lively expressions that utilize movement, atypical designs that stand out with structural experimentation, and even folding masks as a form of plastic art. This book becomes a creative stage that expands the possibilities of origami beyond the boundaries of technology and art.


Through this process, readers who are masters of paper folding will not only learn how to fold paper, but will also experience the expansion of emotions, life, and imagination that bloom into three dimensions on a flat surface, and will contemplate and express their own unique formative language through the material of paper.
This provides new motivation to those who dream of creation and allows them to experience the true depth of origami.

『K-Origami Maestro 3-Step』 is thus a book and a workshop at the same time, a record of art in which the creator's unique traces permeate every fold, and a special creative work that embodies the cultural value of introducing the aesthetics and philosophy of Korean origami, a genre of K-culture, to the world.


While reading this book, readers will think, express, and create with a single sheet of paper, and deeply connect with the art of origami.