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 ...
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 ...