{"id":1003,"date":"2007-06-22T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2007-06-22T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T11:42:26","slug":"johannes_who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/johannes_who\/","title":{"rendered":"johannes who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"firstmovabletype.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/firstmovabletype.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the oldest existing document in the world printed with metal movable type: an anthology of Zen teachings, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea&#8230; 1377.  It&#8217;s a little known fact, at least in the West, that movable type was first developed in Korea circa 1230, over 200 years before that goldsmith from Mainz came on the scene. I saw this today in the National Library of Korea in Seoul (more on that soon). This book is actually a reproduction. The original resides in Paris and is the subject of a bitter dispute between the French and Korean governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the oldest existing document in the world printed with metal movable type: an anthology of Zen teachings, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea&#8230; 1377. It&#8217;s a little known fact, at least in the West, that movable type was first developed in Korea circa 1230, over 200 years before that goldsmith from Mainz came on the scene. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,790,1019,1059,1062,1231,1512],"tags":[2223],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gutenberg","category-korea","category-libraries","category-library","category-movabletype","category-printing","tag-books-printing-movabletype-gutenberg-korea-library-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}