[Exploring for project] Experiment of protecting culture #3 _VANK_ Feeling Jikji in South Korea

 

Cheongju Early Printing Museum

The Cheongju Early Printing Museum is the only museum specialized in early printing in Korea, which was built on the Heungdeoksaji Temple Site (Historic Site No. 315), Cheongju where the ‘Baegun Hwasang Chorok Buljo Jikji Simche Yojeol (Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests' Zen Teachings)' ("Jikji'hereinafter), the oldest moveable metal type existing in the world.

Cheongju Municipal Government maintained the old Heungdeoksa Temple Site in March 1992 and built the Museum to widely acknowledge that Korean civilization created and developed the world's first movable metal type and to maintain the proud and remarkable cultural heritage of Korean ancestors in the history of human civilization. The Museum was expanded to 4,868m (one underground floor, 2 ground floors) in June 2000.

The Cheongju Early Printing Museum has been making every effort for research, education and training, and promotion of the magnificent early printing culture achieved by our ancestors to promoting human civilization through the globalization of Jikji.

Im Inho, Metal type mastero, National intangible cultural heritage No. 101

Inside of The Cheongju Early Printing Museum

Meeting Im Inho, Metal type mastero, National intangible cultural heritage No. 101

and Experiment metal type printing