The Cultural Heritage Administration on Thursday decided not to register “Jeungdogaja” as a national treasure, after examination results confirmed that they could not be the 13th-century metal print ...

Combination photo shows the 1472 wooden block print version (left) and the 1239 version of "Nammyeong Cheon Hwasangsong Jeungdoga," which some scholars claim were ...

The ancient Korean kingdom of Joseon (1392-1910) is known as “a kingdom of type printing.” Starting with the first-ever Joseon system of movable metal type, called the gyemija (계미자, 癸未字), created in ...

The Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910) was a nation of documentation. Many documents and books from Joseon such as “Joseon Wangjo Sillok” (“The Annals of the Joseon Kingdom”) and “Seungjeongwon Ilgi” (“The ...

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 during a ...

A FEW YEARS ago Russell Maret, a New York artist, found himself puzzling over a question. In the 1920s and 1930s some preindustrial fonts were revived by Stanley Morison, a great British typographer.