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Korean literature is the bodyof literature produced in the Korean language

.For much of Korea's 3,000 years of literaryhistory, it was written both in Hanja 

and in theKorean script Hangul. 

It is commonly diidedinto classical and modern periods, although thisdistinction is sometimes unclear. Korea is hometo the world's !rst metal and copper type,world's earliest "nown printed document andthe world's !rst feature script

.

#yanmar literature was primarily of a religiousnature and was inscribed on stone. $heseinscriptions go as far bac" as the %egan periodin the &&th century. alm(leaf manuscripts andfolded paper manuscripts came into e)istenceonly after the &*th century. $he literatureduring this period was mainly concerned withthe +ana"a tales told by the %uddha to hisdisciples in answer to certain uestions. It wasin the form of drama and epistles or missies,written in erse. +or"s on law and history were

written in prose. #any dramas were writtenduring the &-th to &th centuries, while in the&/th century, poems, drama, and chronicleswere produced. fter #yanmar fell to the%ritish, the country's literature began to re1ectthe impact of a +estern culture2 the arrial ofthe printing press also in1uenced literature,which preiously had been written for a muchsmaller audience. lays that had been writtenfor the court became widely aailable2 theseplays were not performed on the stage but weremeant to be read.

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least decreases J by age C*. $here is, howeer,no way to predict how long it will ta"e todisappear entirely, and some indiiduals willcarry this condition well into their thirties,forties, and beyond.

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arieties of warts, the most common consideredto be mostly harmless. It is possible to getwarts from others2 they are contagious andusually enter the body in an area of bro"ens"in. $hey typically disappear after a fewmonths but can last for years and can reoccur.

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