The Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910) was a nation of documentation. Many documents and books from Joseon such as “Joseon Wangjo Sillok” (“The Annals of the Joseon Kingdom”) and “Seungjeongwon Ilgi” (“The ...
I’ve had an epiphany. This one is about Korean printing technology. The basic question is: Why, if the Gutenberg press spawned the Renaissance and then the Enlightenment and the end of feudalism in ...
The ancient Korean kingdom of Joseon (1392-1910) is known as “a kingdom of type printing.” Starting with the first-ever Joseon system of movable metal type, called the gyemija (계미자, 癸未字), created in ...
Early movable metal type printing from the period of the Goryeo Kingdom shows surface tension of the ink, which is a common tendency of liquid on metal surface at rest to shrink into circular liquid ...
The world's oldest existing metal movable type book, 'Jikji Simche Yojeol' (直指心體要節, hereafter Jikji), has been revealed to the public for the first time in about half a century. The National Library ...
The Jikji is one of the first books printed with movable metal type. Although it is a religious text , as is the Gutenberg bible, its importance is that it represents the start of the exponential ...
About 1,600 blocks of metal movable type dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries have been discovered in downtown Seoul, with some inscribed with Hangeul around the time when the Korean alphabet ...
A version of the book printed with woodblocks was made in 1239 and is National Treasure No. 1132, but according to historical records, the book was first printed using movable metal type. The book and ...
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyemin] A redevelopment project in Gongpyeong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, where metal movable type was excavated, will see the construction of the country's largest-scale relic ...
With the world now so reliant on computers, it is easy to forget that typesetting and colour printing used to be labours of love that required days, weeks or even months to achieve precise results.
The author is a senior writer of labor affairs at the JoongAng Ilbo. In the late ‘90s, Life magazine chose Johannes Gutenberg’s metal movable-type printing press as the greatest invention of the past ...
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