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Singijeon




  hangul 신기전
  hanja 神機箭
  rr Singijeon
  mr Sin'gijŏn


Singijeon is a (~ 1376 ), Choe successfully extracted Potassium Nitrate from the Soil Seoul National University and developed Korea's first gunpowder. This eventually led to the creation of Juhwa.

Singijeon branched into three major types: large (dae) (대), medium (joong) (중), and small (so) (소). The large singijeon was a duplicate of the Chinese , and had a range of 100 meters. All gunpowder weapons including the singijeon used black powder.


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