 The zealousness Korea had to acquire Buddhist texts also provided an impetus for the printing of texts.By the end of the 11th century Korea had better copies of common texts as well as rare copies of certain editions.Previously the flow of books was mainly from China to Korea, but in 1091 China asked Korea for 117 books that no longer existed in China’s libraries, a situation similar to that in Europe a few centuries earlier where Ireland had preserved Christian texts no longer in existence on the continent.