Late Middle Ages · East Asia · Technology
1366
Korean scholars develop metal movable type printing
1366
Building on innovations pioneered a century earlier, Goryeo craftsmen refined the casting of individual bronze characters for printing Buddhist sutras and government documents. Korean metal type predated Gutenberg by seventy years, though its impact remained contained - the thousands of Chinese characters made mass production far harder than an alphabetic system would allow.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.