By Caroline Gluck, BBC correspondent in Seoul

South Korea’s first sex museum has opened, challenging traditional views that in the past Koreans were a chaste, even prudish nation.

The Asia Eros museum displays more than 300 exhibits, some several hundred years old, from Korea and around the world.

Crowds of curious visitors arrived as the Asia Eros museum opened its doors in a quiet but upscale neighbourhood in the South Korean capital Seoul.

It claims to be the country’s first sex museum and features erotic art from paintings, photographs and carvings, dating back through the centuries.

Some of the items are shamanistic sexual symbols. Other erotic images are displayed on everyday items such as plates, mirrors and coins.

Items from Tibet and Japan are also on display.

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