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Kim Jeong-ho

Geographer who published the woodblock map Daedong yeojido

His pen name was Gosanja. After the earlier Cheonggudo, he published the Daedong yeojido in 1861, divided into 22 folding books that could be carried, with a dot every 10 ri along the roads to show distance. He also wrote the geography Daedong jiji.

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1750Jeong Sang-gi’s Dongguk Jidorelated figure
A map of Korea by Jeong Sang-gi, the first to use a scale — the "hundred-ri ruler".
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1861Daedong yeojido publishedcreator
Kim Jeong-ho published a woodblock map of the whole country in 22 folding sections; laid out together they form a map nearly seven metres tall.

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Documentary: History Special Episode 196: Kim Jeong-ho's Dream: Mapping the Network of JoseonDocumentary · 2003 · KBS1

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Science and Technology HeritageAD 633 – 1861
From Cheomseongdae to the Daedong yeojido — instruments and maps that measured the sky, kept time, gauged rain and charted the land