The Korea Herald

[Visual History of Korea] Korea’s metal printing press was head and shoulders above the rest

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 Korea Times

Art of printing

CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong Province — Five years ago, Lim In-ho, a metal type craftsman, wanted to run away when he first faced the daunting task of reproducing movable metal types used for printing ...
The Korea Times

An epiphany about metal movable type — literacy and civilized government

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 Korea Herald

[Visual History of Korea] Jeungdoga book may be oldest movable metal type print book

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 ...
중앙일보

[INTERVIEW] Joseon was a global leader of the print revolution

Printed in 1377, the Goryeo Jikjisimgyeong is the world's oldest document created using movable metal type, 78 years ahead of the Gutenberg Bible. That's common knowledge to any Korean who went to ...
Hackaday

metal printing

The secret to cranking out a furniture-sized metal frame in minutes is Liquid Metal Printing (LMP), demonstrated by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They’ve demonstrated ...