The Surviving Daedong yeojido Woodblocks

Twelve of the woodblocks Kim Jeong-ho carved to print the Daedong yeojido survive, in the National Museum of Korea and Soongsil University; they were designated a Treasure in 2008.

Because the Daedong yeojido was printed from carved woodblocks, many copies could be made. Each block was carved with two map sections, front and back, and there were probably some sixty in all. Eleven survive in the National Museum of Korea and one in the Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University; they were designated a Treasure in 2008.

Comparing the surviving blocks with printed maps shows places where Kim recut the blocks after printing. That the blocks survive at all shows the story that the Daewongun seized and burned them to be untrue.