Foreign powerful presses
and internet sites took a public opinion pool on the greatest
event and invention in human beings' cultural history in the
end of 20the century. In this pool, Gutenberg's metal
printing arts of German won the first without exception.
The reason for this result is because his arts enabled the
general public to contact with information by mass-producing
information which had been exclusively possessed by high
classes. The mass distribution of information began with
mass publications of Bible, and continued to the Revolution.
Producing information about industrial science technology was
connected to the Industrial Revolution, and cultural arts were
connected to Renaissance. All of these overthrew then-ruling
classes who had possessed the power of information. This
continued to the Civilization Revolution, and made a
foundation of democracy today. We can find the true value
of ¡¸Jikji¡¹ here. Although Gutenberg's metal printing arts
have completely changed the western history of civilization,
we invented the oldest existing Metal Printed ¡¸Jikji¡¹ which is
78 years earlier than Gutenberg's and enables us to produce
small but various mass information. Therefore, ¡¸Jikji¡¹ is
the starting point of the information age represented by
internet as well as the greatest invention in the history of
human beings.
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The Value of
Jikji
