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When the 1980-87 military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan controlled access to information by creating lists of banned books, blocking access to foreign news and persecuting suspected dissidents, Korea s universities were a nexus of subversive activities, from political demonstrations that often clashed violently with police, to secretive groups that shared and read forbidden literature. That situation is dramatized in Banned Book Club, a 198-page graphic novel by Kim Hyun-sook, Ko Hyung-ju and Ryan Estrada. ....

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