In 1377, a Korean monk named Baegun is credited with printing a compilation of Buddhist sayings using movable metal type.

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 ...

The answer is — and this is my epiphany — the printing revolution and its attending developments were already happening in Korea ahead of metal movable type.

Movable metal type is often traced back to Gutenberg’s workshop, but its history is far older in Asia. Researchers are using atomic-scale tools to rewrite the narrative.

Movable metal type (printing) blocks, which could be the earliest known depicting Hangeul, the Korean alphabet created in 1443 under the guidance of King Sejong the Great, were found in a pot ...

Minhal Gardezi, PhD Student in the Department of Physics at UW-Madison, describes how X-rays are used to study the composition of early printed pages, including leaves of a Gutenberg Bible and a ...

Ask most people what the oldest book made with movable metal type is, and they likely will say the Gutenberg Bible, printed around 1455 in Mainz, Germany. That isn’t the case, and a University ...

When answering the question of who invented printing, most would undoubtedly point to Gutenberg, some to the Chinese. Meanwhile, the Polish textbook Uczeń-Drukarz (Trainee-Printer) states that the ...

It was Gutenberg who invented Europe’s first movable metal type printing press, which started the printing revolution and marks the turning point from medieval times to modernity in the Western ...