This event is being held as a meaningful event to introduce Johannes Gutenberg’s printing technology—which represents the Western world’s metal movable type—and allow people to have a hands-on experience of such in the birthplace of Jikji, a book printed with the world’s first movable metal types in 1377.

 Gutenberg invented a movable metal type in/around 1440, and it led to innovation in printing technology in Europe. He made metal molds and came up with a way of mass-producing types. He also combined them with the use of grease-based ink printing press; thus contributing greatly to the spread of the technology throughout Europe. Also known as the 42-line Bible, the Gutenberg Bible he printed in/about 1455 came to be registered with UNESCO as a World Heritage.