Yet you smile. Similarly, when you read a satirical novel, a poem, or if you look at a painting that lampoons your object of love, you feel bad about it. But they evoke chortles, too. A piece of ...

That year, authorities arrested poet and playwright Kim Ji-ha and placed him under house arrest for penning a satirical poem titled "Higo" (Groundless Rumor). A movement arose in Japan to free him.