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 ...
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 ...
When French diplomat Victor Collin de Plancy (1853-1924) was posted in Joseon Korea, he collected many unique treasures, including rare ancient Korean books. He returned to France with the treasures ...
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 Korean alphabet, called hangul, is recognized globally as one of the most creative phonetic systems in the world. The current hangul system is composed of 24 basic letters, but it wasn't always ...
“1377: Printing of Jikji in Korea, the oldest known dated text printed with movable metal type.” Many European visitors to “Printing! Gutenberg’s Europe,” a new exhibit at the BnF, or the National ...
"Jikji Simche Yojeol," the world's oldest surviving book printed with movable metal type, will be put on public display in France for the first time in 50 years. According to the website of the ...
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