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Another noteworthy aspect of Korea’s heavy fire-arms is that they were not all invented to meet the sudden emergency of war. These weapons in fact made their appearance some 200 years prior to the 1592–1598 Japanese invasions of Korea. Thanks to the efforts of [[Choe Museon]], a general and a chemist, Korea began manufacturing and developing gunpowder and powder-based weapons.<ref name=ScienceTechKoreanHistory>{{cite book |last=Park|first=Seong-rae|date=2005|title=Science and Technology in Korean History: Excursions, Innovations, and Issues|publisher=Jain Pub Co|page=82-86}}</ref> Korean cannons first saw action in 1380 against a large fleet of Japanese pirate ships and were found to be a great success.<ref name=ScienceTechKoreanHistory></ref>
In the 15th century, under the lead of [[Sejong the Great]], who was himself a pioneer of scientific research, the performance of these heavy artillery improved dramatically. Having built a cannon range next to the Royal Court, and after much experimentation and study, King Sejong finally increased the extent of the cannons’ firepower from {{convert|300|m}} to {{convert|1000|m}}. Naval cannons were also developed at this time and among them, Heaven, Earth, Black and Yellow cannon were later employed by Yi Sun-sin.<ref name = FightingTechniquesOrient></ref> The development of artillery steadily continued after King Sejong, and saw the invention of the ''bigyeokjincholloe'', a timed grenade that flung out hundreds of metal shards upon explosion, and the ''dapoki'', a machine capable of firing many arrows at once. One of the types of cannons were arrows with a pipe filled with gunpowder.{{fact|date=September 2023}} Among the most feared projectiles fired by the Earth cannons was a ballista-like large iron arrow covered in incendiary material, which was used to great effect against Japanese ships.<ref name=
==Comparison to Japanese warships==
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