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Hidden Treasure, Jikji

Hidden Treasure, Jikji

United States of America Korean War Commemoration website Throughout its history, Korea has been invaded, annexed, colonized and occupied by a variety of other countries. There is a Korean proverb that says a shrimp is crushed in a battle between whales. Korea has been the shrimp caught between whales on many occasions. American world history [...]

One person’s dream changed the World History

One person’s dream changed the World History

How far a person’s dream can go? Can a person’s dream change Korea’s national image? If you want to know the answer, listen to this story. A Korean person’s dream has the power to inscribe the 5000 years of Korean history in the minds of people all over the world. A Korean person’s action can [...]

Interview with Dr. Stephen Ellis

Interview with Dr. Stephen Ellis

  The National Archives of Australia became the fourth laureate of UNESCO/JIKJI award. The UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize was established in 2004. It was named after Jikji, the oldest metal type printed book. It is given every two years to individuals or institutions that have made significant contributions to the preservation and improving accessibility [...]

Interview with UNESCO specialist about Jikji

Interview with UNESCO specialist about Jikji

Q: Could you introduce yourself? A: Manager of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, a successful preservation and access initiative to raise awareness of the urgent need to preserve analogue and digital documentary heritage. I am the UNESCO project coordinator for the World Digital Library which helps to expand multilingual and culturally diverse content on [...]

The Influence and Importance of the Korean Metal Type

Though the Korean Metal Type was created earlier than Gutenberg‘s, there are someone who think that it is of less significance because it was less influential from a historical point of view. I admit that it can be seen like that but isn’t this from a western perspective? Because mankind evolving from a western basis, [...]

Jikji in the world

Jikji in the world

JIKJI was inscribed on Memory of the World Register, UNESCO with Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible on the same day. By this, this book is not only Korean’s heritage but the world’s heritage. Eventually, the world recognized the value of this book. In this chapter, we tell you the influence to civilization of this book and the [...]

The greatest invention, Movable Metal type printing and Jikji

The greatest invention, Movable Metal type printing and Jikji

What do you think the greatest invention throughout the entire human history? This chapter will guide you to learn more about the development of printing methods and its remarkable contribution to civilization. And we introduce you representative movable metal type printings. You may know Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible as the first metal type printed book. However, [...]

From woodblock to the Internet

How much do you know about printing methods? You may barely know about this and only heard your country’s representative old books. In this chapter, you can grasp the development of world’s printing methods. By reading this chapter, you may widen your knowledge and view about printing. 751 Darani Sutra Printed with Woodblocks in Korea [...]