The type-caster melts lead and produces the movable type. It was also difficult to find technical experts as they had retired.” “Most of them were sold as scrap metal and we had to travel across the country to find them. “There were some 1,500 type-casting machines in Korea, but only four of them here are currently in use,” Park said. When offset printing was introduced to Korea in the 1980s, movable type disappeared almost immediately and the machines became junk. There are four automatic type-casters in the workshop.
It needs at least five workers, one for each phase. Movable type printing consists of five stages - type-casting, type-picking, type-setting, printing and binding. “However, I thought we should maintain the metal movable type system since Korea is the country that first invented woodblock printing and metal movable type,” he said. Offset printing can print some 20,000 copies a minute, while movable type can do only 1,000 copies in the same time,” he said.
“It is true that movable type printing is low in profitability compared to modern offset printing. He first came up with the idea to restore the movable type printing system in 2002 and teamed up with friends, including Park Han-su, president of Ten Moon Publishing and Chung Byoung-kyoo, president of Chung Design, which founded the workshop in November 2007. “This is the only place in Korea for printing with movable type,” Park Kun-han, 70, poet and executive editor of the workshop, told The Korea Times. PAJU, Gyeonggi Province - It is like stepping back in time - the Movable Type Workshop in Paju Book City, Gyeonggi Province, resembles a small museum of type-printing but all the machines are still in use. Park Kun-han shows metal type at the Movable Type Workshop in Paju Book City, Gyeonggi Province, Monday.
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