Young Kyun Oh – Between the Movable and the Immovable鈥擯rinting Technologies in Early Modern Korea
In premodern East Asia, woodblock printing was the stable and almost exclusive choice of technology of producing books. It is therefore curious why the court of Chos艔n Korea (1392鈥1910) continuously cast movable types. Throughout Chos艔n history, type casting was consistently an important project of the royal court. Metal types were cast thirty-nine times in Chos艔n, […]