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Goryeo military official, inventor (1325 - 1395 )

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Ch'oe Musŏn was a medieval Korean chemist, inventor, and military general during the late Goryeo Dynasty and early Joseon Dynasty.

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Ch'oe Musŏn was a medieval Korean chemist, inventor, and military general during the late Goryeo Dynasty and early Joseon Dynasty. He is best known for enabling Korea to domestically produce gunpowder by obtaining a recipe for the Chinese commodity from a Chinese merchant, as well as inventing various gunpowder-based weapons in an attempt to repel the wokou pirates that plundered coastal regions of the Korean Peninsula.

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Lived 1325 to 1395 · aged 70
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