The Sameseong Museum of Publishing in Seoul is staging a show of books that have been banned in Korea’s recent past. As Kim Joo-young reports in a story for Yonhap News, many of the “scores” of books on display were banned during the Japanese occupation. Everything from “history books, philosophical books, novels or poetry . . . magazines, written sheet music and bibles” all were censored by the Japanese, and “Writing things that did not conform to the Japanese government’s beliefs meant the writer could be questioned by police for days and possibly punished.” Says Shin Susie, one of the show’s curators, “People who visit the exhibition are often amazed at the range and variety of the books banned.” The books on display, says museum head Kim Jong-gyu, “show how desperate Korean people were to find out about their place in the world despite Japan’s rule.”