The Hidden History of Korea's Printing Innovation
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Seventy years before Johannes Gutenberg introduced modern moveable type to Europe in 1440, Korea had already printed the first book using moveable metal type. Today, Han-Soo Park is the only person in South Korea continuing to preserve this tradition at his Letterpress Workshop in Paju Book City. As printing techniques have advanced, Park has kept an age-old tradition alive by creating poetry books and conducting workshops for Koreans to experience their often-overlooked contribution to the world.
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wow this is really cool. In school we were always taught that guttenberg invented printing, but my parents told me koreans invented one may years before. I never believed them, but ive been shown wrong. this is really cool!
Jumpre korea and japan have different cultures but are similar. similar but mot the same
gokucrazy22 guttenberg invented prining press. the thing that Chinese invented is a moveable letter which is completely different from what guttenberg invented
Jumpre Why do you have to give gokucrazy22 a lecture about crap you probably just searched up on google? gokucrazy22 never even talked about gunpowder, compass, or paper making so how could he be wrong on that part. Plus, what do you mean Korea and Japan couldn't sync with it. Korea and Japan also evolved dynasty after dynasty. Maybe next time, you should think about arguing without getting so tempered up so easily.
gokucrazy22 China invented moveable type using ceramics. Korea invented the first moveable metal type. this is a well known fact
Adaptations and the intermingling of culture is one thing, to say that one culture is completely copied because of said adaptations and mixing is a logical fallacy. If we were to continue saying that, you'd say that the Chinese culture is actually derived from cultures that existed previously, all the way down to the Stone Age cave man.
It is true that since China, Japan, and Korea are all very close to each other, our technologies and cultures developed similarly. It's also true that the Korean and Japanese languages originate from the Chinese language. However to say that the Koreans didn't even have their own language until hundreds of years ago is quite flawed. Though our writing system was very similar, our ways of speech and grammar were very different. The interesting thing is that the Chinese and Koreans could basically write letters to each other and they both would understand, but they could not hold conversations together without an interpreter if one did not know the language of the other.
Also, I'm not sure if you are well-versed in Korean and Japanese history, but all of these East Asian nations have had a fair share of changing dynasties, warring kingdoms, unification and political turmoil.
Europeans are constantly credited with inventions already done by other civilizations. It's so frustrating that the history books haven't been re-written to at least give some credit to innovators who came before.
Derptrollz Slowly, and surely, the history textbooks will appreciate the non-Anglo-Saxon inventions, but I'm not holding my breath.
Did I also mentioned how heavy they are, they weigh like a forklift! Crazy!
Derptrollz name one
Qiu Jack If you had one. And paper was never stolen from chinese by europans
And before all of this... China was printing books using woodblock printing press in ~593AD
Actually, It's not true, there is no substaintial proof of this being true in regards to the South Koreans. They are notorious among the northern Asian bloc as being liars and trying to take credit for everything.
Did you know the South Koreans developed the Nuclear Bomb back in 3,000 BCE before everyone? Or that they developed a way to harness the power of Nuclear Fusion in 4000 BCE? It's true, proof you say? You will just have to take our word for it.
Why is there so much hate on every single Korean-related video? Why do people constantly feel the need to put down Koreans? Can someone explain why?
Miso Nanumi many chinese(not the whole) think everything comes from China. So when someone say "this is Korean"or "this is Japanese"
They quickly trigger and talk ahit about them...
I understand that, but I don't see as much of that on Japanese videos. I see people praising Japanese culture for its uniqueness (and they are), but whenever there's a video about Korea's traditional culture, people are quick to judge. There are also so many videos pointing out Korea's problem with racism, when in fact the people who do point fingers also are perpetrators themselves (e.g. some Southeast Asians). Perhaps it all comes down to how 'powerful' a country is, and sadly, Korea is not seen as 'powerful' by these people.
Miso Nanumi well china is powerful but being powerful doesn't mean being developed.
If we compare korea with other asian countries korea will have better IDH, quality life and average income.
In fact, most of the ppl who say Japanese culture is unique are Westerners(the majority)
I have also seen comments from Chinese saying stuffs like:
Japanese are all stupid, their culture is fake they all came from China.
Because Koreans love distorting history. Movable type was invented in China. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type
@@melopc The video is talking about movable metal type, not movable type in general btw. Most koreans know that china invented movable type in general.
Wow 70 years before Gutenberg! Awesome! You learn something new every day!
I think by innovation this video means they used metal for the first time
@@zhenwong2540 yeah not first "printing press", "metal printing press"
look at those machines, so amazing
So ahead of its time! Also, very satisfying to watch those machines operating.
love learning things like this, we wouldnt have known the truth in school.
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i love how they let the kids use the letter press! Iwant to visit this place :)
This is so neat.
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i love the video but why would you not show an actual print that the machine did?! a flash here or there but we didn't really get to appreciate the full effect.
이런걸 보면 왠지 자랑스럽달까....
I finally watched a video early
Those machines are so beautiful!! 😍
Love your South Korean videos please do as many as possible
What would an earthquake do to these neatly stacked letters
Max Maker Luckily, only the parts of Korea that are geographically close to Japan (southeast end of South Korea) tend to feel quakes, at least for the most part. Paju is northwest, near the DMZ. Funnily enough, typhoons also tend to hit the southern tip of Korea from the west and beelines for Japan, like every time. They don't hit Seoul or Paju very hard.
the interesting thing is that these plates, especially the plates that printed the Jikji, were well preserved and survived numerous wars, fires, and natural disasters. It is a testament to how resilient the metal movable-type the Koreans invented is.
The world's first movable type printing technology for paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around 1040 CE in China during the Northern Song dynasty by the inventor Bi Sheng (990-1051). The earliest printed paper money with movable metal type to print the identifying code of the money was made in 1161 during the Song dynasty. In 1193, a book in the Song dynasty documented how to use the copper movable type.
I will always admire and respect people that preserve history and method and artifacts
The video is a bit misleading: Mr. Park uses a cylinder press, which is modern technology, and does not resemble either metal type printing systems invented in Korea nor Germany.
hangeul has so many possible letters, i don't understand how they can use movable type
You're probably thinking Chinese which does have many characters. Hangul is a phonetic alphabet, very similar to English. Korean doesn't have an infinite number of letters. It only has 10 consonants and 10 vowels. The rest of combinations are formed basically out of these basic building blocks.
That's the most important point.
That's why Europeans live in Australia and America.
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Heritage ☯️🦋
"Jikji Tripitaka "
Everyone on this
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Learned the Art
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ink , and PRINTING = Book
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MagnificenT &
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Health and vitality
Thanks again 💞.
🇰🇵 Thanks 🇰🇷
Because of your
Beautiful 🌻and
☸️MagnificenT
Heritage ☯️🦋
"Jikji Tripitaka "
Everyone on this
Planet 🌍💚🌎
Learned the Art
Of making paper,
ink , and PRINTING = Book
💚🇰🇷🇨🇳🇰🇵💚
Wishing you all
MagnificenT &
Beautiful people
Health and vitality
Thanks again 💞.
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now do a video on why everyone in korea is either named Song, Park, or Kim
If you are actually curious about this, I can answer.
Just like many other civilizations, surname was something that was only granted to the nobles back in the days in Korea. Once the policy was lifted and everyone could get their own last name, Koreans took a route of simply adopting existing last names of the nobles or kings. That's why we have so many Kim, Park, Choi, Lee - they all were last names of the noble heritage.
FINELY!! This is THE video about Korea that people can't say it was first in China
Edit: never mind... looked down comments, stupid people still saying it's Chinese
Stealing it can't make it Korean. Give up.
@@quarelay2486stealing what mtfkr🤣 u had strong jealousy over how they got attention poor you🤣🤣🤣🤣2
So beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
is in South Korea or not Korea???
North Korea and South Korea were originally one hundred years ago. So it was made by Korea. :)
Neither, movable type was invented in China. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type
@@melopc we were talking about metal ones r/whoosh
@@user-uf4xf4nw2u It’s just like the difference between a wooden bowl and a metal bowl. Doesn’t really have a lot of changes. FYI, first metal movable type appeared in China’s in Song Dynasty as well for printing paper money. The Koreans copied it, and now they are claiming a Chinese invention “Korean”, pointing fingers to the victims.
I'm from Korea
I would love ❤️ to get a school assignment printed like that
Aside from the existence of real relics,If you look at historical records, And when the Chinese used ceramics, Koreans used metal types.
But the Chinese are the inventors, Korea imported this technology from China and made it with metal
@@iany2176 The printing itself is found in Sumer before 4000 B.C. The Chinese just developed this a little bit more and used it.
@@kainblack5041 Sumer used stamping, not printing. Check the definitions
@@quarelay2486 Stamping is also a type of printing.
@@kainblack5041 Not really, people call it stamping or a seal instead of printing for a reason.
It's so sad that the place has no young people :(
Carissa~
they just showed in the video where kids are learning about ffs smh
Pls tell me who invented movable plastic type? haha
로마의 교황이 고려(한국)에게 보낸 편지가, 로마 바티칸 수장고에서 발견 되었다. 존경하는 고려인들의 왕께, 그리스도인들을 잘 돌봐주셔서 감사합니다.
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Hello, Chief Jacob
Nobody said Gutenberg invented the printing press. He perfected it, by using a lead and tin mixture movable types.
그게 고려(한국식) 이였다는거지
What??? No, Chinese people invented the movable type at the first
Early again ☺️
Civilization belongs to the world, the world belongs to South Korea
The world is ruined by retards like you
The earliest movable type printing was invented in China. Korea converted the ceramic blocks into metal, an incremental innovation. Gutenberg invented it first in the west. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type
@@Moonjoonho 有病就去治
But Chinese characters are terrible.
Not everyone can print.
Yee
i dont undestand ...
可以。伟大的印刷术也是韩国发明的。不愧是大韩民族。
Look, Europeans, a lot of things you know you've made are just lie that you made it. Is not there any evidence recently that Korean metal types directly affected Gutenberg? Search 'Jikji Code'. And the world's first metal type is "상정고금예문" in 1234. And nobody knows which country made the first wood type. However, the oldest woodblock prints in existence is "무구정광대다라니경" in Korea.
First metal movable type appeared in China’s in Song Dynasty as well for printing paper money. The Koreans copied it, and now they are claiming a Chinese invention “Korean”, pointing fingers to the victims. Woodblock movable type print was invented in China as well. Stop claiming everything.
oh, well. South Korean invent everything. Such as the printing , You didn't steal it and anyother things from Chinese.
The world is better of without retards like you
@@jlole9460 enjoy, you are free to think whatever you want in your world.
0:11 Yee
Lol, it means 'this'
eh still YEE
It's from China.
the sun is invented by korean and Confucius is korean haha！
yeah yeah and the world was created by china
Nh triggered :) hahaha
It is a sad reality that many Chinese still believe in fake news written by Japanese Internet media in 2005.
재미없어 바보야 태양은 당연히 지구보다 전에 생겨났고 공자는 중국인이잖아 :(
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Well, printing was actually invented by the Chinese in 200 B.C. sooooooo...
They thought it up. It didn't work for them. Koreans thought it up once again. It WORKED. I think Korea should get credit
They specifically stated that "Jikji is the oldest existing book printed with MOVABLE METAL TYPE and it was printed in 1377, 70 years before Gutenberg."
China didn't invent movable metal type.
China didn't invented movable metal type because it was originally made from...... wood
It did work for China.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing
and corona virus too
not only korea japan is well
Japan still has more mangas