→ Korean Invented Printing Press 200 Years Before Gutenberg
So, this just passed by on my RSS feed and jumpped out at me. Seems like Gutenberg wasn’t actually first at creating the printing press.
It is important to recognize what this means. The innovation that Johannes Gutenberg is said to have created was small metal pieces with raised backwards letters, arranged in a frame, coated with ink, and pressed to a piece of paper, which allowed books to be printed more quickly. But Choe Yun-ui did that — and he did it 150 years before Gutenberg was even born.
Gutenberg’s creation of the process did spread much faster. The Korean printing press was hampered by a number of factors.
Notably, Korea was under invasion, which hampered their ability to disseminate their innovation. In addition, Korean writing, then based closely on Chinese, used a large number of different characters, which made creating the metal pieces and assembling them into pages a slow process. Most importantly, Goryeo rulers intended most of its printing projects for the use of the nobility alone.
Very interesting story.
LINK: So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent the Printing Press
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The picture illustration looks Chinese to me.
It's a Zen Korean document. I don't know the details, but I believe Korean used to use Chinese characters. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikji
Jikji
Jikji (Korean pronunciation: [tɕiktɕ͈i]) is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose title can be translated "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests' Zen Teachings". Printed during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1377, it is the world's oldest extant book printed with movable metal type. UNESCO confirmed Jikji as the world's oldest metalloid type in September 2001 and includes it in the Memory of the World Programme.Jikji was published in Heungdeok Temple in 1377, 78 years prior to Johannes Gutenberg's acclaimed "42-Line Bible" printed during the years 1452–1455. The greater part of the Jikji is now lost, and today only the last volume survives, and is kept at the Manuscrits Orientaux division of the National Library of France.
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