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Royal physician who compiled the Dongui bogam
He began compiling a medical book on Seonjo's orders in 1596 and kept working even in exile after Seonjo's death, completing the Dongui bogam in 1610. The book combined Chinese and Korean medicine with an emphasis on native herbs, and in 2009 it was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
Heo Jun completed the 25-volume medical encyclopedia Dongui bogam, drawing on Korean herbs and remedies; it is on UNESCO’s Memory of the World register.
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Fifteenth king of Joseon who began the Daedong law and balanced Ming and the Later Jin; deposed in 1623
From the Dharani Sutra to the May 18 archives — woodblock and metal-type printing, and the records inscribed on the Memory of the World