• Journal of Studies in Bibliography
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• no.75
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• pp.179-192
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• 2018

This article examines the general status of the Censored texts, censorship status, censorship characteristics and meaning, which were confirmed through the Korean Old novel's Censored Edition and Napbon. The censored texts version of the Korean novel can be divided into manuscripts, woodblock-printed books written with chinese characters and Hangeul, old printed novel. Korean Old novels were also censored during the Japanese colonial period but the actual censorship did not reflect the instructions issued during the publication process. This can be said to be a feature of the old book censorship when compared with the modern/modern literature, magazines, and socialist books. As such, the novel was censored but relatively loose, so the publishers focused on publishing the novel. As a result, during the Japanese colonial period, the number of readers increased, and the publishing house was booming, resulting in duplication of the same works by different publishers. In the meantime, academics have discussed the reason why the novel has become popular from the 1910s to the 1930s. But I could not discuss it in terms of censorship and Nap-bon. Now we need to approach this aspect.