Jikji: Earliest Movable Type Book
Jikji, printed in 1377 at Heungdeoksa Temple in Gaeseong, is the oldest surviving book produced with movable metal type. Its creation shows Korea already had a metal-type workshop centuries before Gutenberg’s press, even though Jikji’s text used Chinese characters (Hanja). The copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France is listed by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register as the oldest surviving movable-type book.
