Young Kyun Oh – Between the Movable and the Immovable—Printing Technologies in Early Modern Korea
IMRC 104 – The Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment IMRC Center, 5 Hilltop Road, Orono, ME, United StatesIn 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 Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) continuously cast movable types. Throughout Chosŏn history, type casting was consistently an important project of the royal court. Metal types were cast thirty-nine times in Chosŏn, […]