There is a popular saying in Cheongju, South Korea, that “anyone who does not know Jikji is a foreign spy.” The word appears on every street sign, and has been appended to the names of cafes, ...

Speaker: Zhaohui He | 何朝晖, Professor, Institute for Classical Philology, Advanced Institute for Confucian Studies, Shandong University. Movable-type printing flourished during the Ming dynasty. This ...

The oldest documented use of moveable metal type dates from 1234, when the Korean Goryeo dynasty commissioned a civil servant called Choe Yun-ui to print a new edition of a book known as the Sangjeong ...

Researchers turn to synchrotron imaging of historical and homemade prints to explore possible connections between early printing methods in Korea and Europe. A map of a Korean text illuminates how ...

Few people in history have had as great an impact on the world as Johannes Gutenberg. In the 15th century, the German inventor introduced movable-type printing to Europe, sparking a revolution that ...

Just a 20-minute drive from Clay Kaserne in Germany, in the heart of Mainz’s old town sits the Gutenberg Museum, dedicated to Johannes Gutenberg and the movable type printing press that he invented ...

Wednesday’s Google Doodle honors Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable metal-type printing to Europe, thus beginning that continent’s era of mass communication. And one of only three perfect ...

Researchers turn to synchrotron imaging of historical and homemade prints to explore possible connections between early printing methods in Korea and Europe. The history of printing goes further back ...