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Korea printed a metal-type book decades before Gutenberg
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Western history textbooks love to loudly claim that Johannes Gutenberg single-handedly changed the world, completely ignoring that Korea beat him to the punch line by roughly 78 years. The 'Jikji,' a collection of Buddhist teachings, was printed using cast metal type in 1377. It turns out the European printing revolution was just a severely delayed sequel to an Asian technological breakthrough.
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