Indeed, metal movable type was being developed at exactly the same time that Korea was creating its world-class 80,000 wood block collection for printing the entire Buddhist canon — now housed ...

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 ...

And yet the promoters of movable metal type were initially to be disappointed, for their innovation did not win general acceptance. To the Koreans a book was both a store of knowledge and a work of ...

One of the worlds oldest printing techniques, wooden movable-type printing is maintained in Ruian County, Zhejiang Province, where it is used in compiling and printing clan genealogies. Men are ...

By Kim Hayeon "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 ...

Google Doodle honors printing press pioneer Johannes Gutenberg The German inventor's movable-type printing press revolutionized the publishing industry more than 500 years ago.

It is Choe Yun-ui and not Johannes Gutenberg who came up with first movable metal type printer. Choe Yun-ui, a civil servant with the responsibility for printing the Sangjeong Gogeum Yemun, a massive ...