Sejong the Great
1397 – 1450 · South Korea · Literature, Engineering
Commissioned Hangul, the alphabet that made Korea literate.
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- Johannes Gutenberg
1400 – 1468 · Engineering
Both solved the same problem — mass literacy — by re-engineering the written word.
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