Mechanisation dead ends: Study of the Korea national Typeface project in the Western

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520138
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
• Research Institution: Tsukuba University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: RYU hyunguk 筑波技術大学, 産業技術学部, 教授 (70389716)
• Research Collaborator: KOMIYAMA Hiroshi ; AN SangRak
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 韓国語 / 韓国語機械化 / 韓国語活版印刷 / 韓国語活字書体 / 韓国語活字印刷本 / 韓国語多言語組版

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With the introduction of European-style printing and moveable type into Korea during the earls, a new age dawned for the Korean publishing industry and began a rush for mechanization that continued throughout the twentieth century.
However, many projects from this crucial period in the development of Korean typesetting have been lost or forgo¬ en, including work by the Intertype Corporation, Mergenthaler　Linotype and the Monotype Corporation Ltd.
This essay investigates five such projects from these companies that sought to produce high-speed typesetting machines for Korea’s national script, Hangeul.

Free Research Field

近代韓国活字印刷史