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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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Spain: Fugitive Basque separatist wins lit prize
MADRID (AP) ― A fugitive who escaped Spanish jail 25 years ago has been awarded one of the Basque country’s top literary awards, but told he cannot have the money that goes with it until he hands himself into authorities.The Basque regional government gave the award to Joseba Sarrionandia on Monday
Oct. 4, 2011
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Abuzz over Adonis for Nobel Literature Prize
STOCKHOLM (AFP) ― Predicting the Nobel Literature Prize winner is near-impossible as the Swedish Academy stays tight-lipped and often honours writers off the beaten path ― so could it be Syrian poet Adonis this year?Each year the names of popular authors are tossed about ― U.S. novelists Philip Roth
Oct. 3, 2011
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New Books
Dreadfully distasteful listsTen Ways to Recycle a Corpse: and 100 More Dreadfully Distasteful ListsBy Karl Shaw(Three Rivers Press)This book could be called magnetic. It pulls you in, the way a magnet pulls a paper clip, and it doesn’t want to let you go.It recounts Julius Caesar’s attempt to cure h
Sept. 30, 2011
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Star-crossed lovers go against norm in late Joseon
Lost SoulsBy Hwang Sun-won(Columbia University Press)Late author Hwang Sun-won’s short story “Lost Souls” is a lot of things. It’s a story of star-crossed lovers, a literary record of Korea’s turbulent late Joseon period, as well as a tragic case of two innocent souls who went against everything the
Sept. 30, 2011
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Anthony Bourdain has no reservations about publishing gig
Anthony Bourdain rolled up his right sleeve to show off his tattoo ― not of a beating cobra heart or other adventure from his Travel Channel show “No Reservations.” It comes from a book, Sarah Bakewell’s “How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer,” which descr
Sept. 30, 2011
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Russian Orthodox Church slams 2 acclaimed authors
MOSCOW (AP) ― A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed Wednesday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and said they should be banned in the nation’s high schools.Father Vsevolod Chaplin’s demand that Russia’s government investigate and limit the use of the
Sept. 29, 2011
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Paju book fest to celebrate literature, history
Ko Un, Lee O-young, Richard Booth to participate in nine-day eventPaju Book City, home to some 260 Korean publishing companies in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, is throwing a book-themed festival from Oct. 1 to 9, celebrating literature and its history with highly acclaimed participants from home and abro
Sept. 28, 2011
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Alain de Botton examines religion as institution
Swiss-born writer visits Seoul with new book ‘Religion for Atheists’Philosopher and author Alain de Botton grew up in a Jewish family where religion was thought to be “completely ridiculous,” and it took him a while for him to say he didn’t agree.“Anyone who was religious, to say bluntly, was though
Sept. 27, 2011
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New Books
The forgotten presidentDestiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a PresidentBy Candice Millard(Doubleday)Author Candice Millard looks back at a forgotten time and president and brings the era and people involved to vivid life in “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madnes
Sept. 23, 2011
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Choosing between life and art
A struggling writer and his wife move into a house in Gangnam in southern Seoul after 13 years of living in a smaller property elsewhere. Throughout the years the two managed to live in peace, though he never managed to write anything successful enough to make a living solely from writing. What auth
Sept. 23, 2011
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New novel examines the life of a 19th century celebrity
On Friday, Feb. 13, 1863, while the Civil War raged on, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story on the wedding of Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump to Charles Stratton, better known as General Tom Thumb.Why did their wedding warrant such attention? Why did their guest list include not only members of the
Sept. 23, 2011
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Local readers no longer the only audience: Yi Mun-yeol
For author Yi Mun-yeol, whose works are published abroad in several languages, using famous sayings only Koreans share or only considering Korean readers is something he can no longer afford to do. “I am now also interested in other readers who will read my books in other languages and who I have ne
Sept. 22, 2011
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New Books
Heartfelt memoir of Lynch Happy Accidents: A Memoir By Jane Lynch Unlike the conniving, feisty -- and hilarious -- character on megahit “Glee” that has catapulted her to fame, Jane Lynch does have a heart. The deliciously evil Sue Sylvester’s voice is drowned out by Lynch’s heartfelt and hilari
Sept. 16, 2011
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Old Korean folktales on women
Old Korean folktales on womenVirtuous Women: Three Classic Korean NovelsTranslated by Richard Rutt and Kim Chong-un(Royal Asiatic Society)Meet some of the most famous female characters of Korea’s traditional folktales.Translated by Richard Rutt and Kim Chong-un in the 70s, “Virtuous Women: Three Cla
Sept. 16, 2011
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Missing out on something like Rapture
The two most moving scenes in Tom Perrotta’s sixth novel, “The Leftovers,” come late in the book. In the first, Kevin Garvey ― abandoned husband, distracted father, mayor of the affluent suburb of Mapleton ― tells a woman he’s been dating that he’s just heard from his college-age son for the first t
Sept. 16, 2011
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New York City’s spots for book lovers
On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists.“On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,” Chelminski said. “And in those drawers were 10 m
Sept. 16, 2011
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U.K. campaign seeks to save Roald Dahl writing hut
LONDON (AP) ― The family of Roald Dahl is trying to raise the funds to preserve a hut in which the late writer wrote tales of big friendly giants, fantastic foxes and magical chocolate factoriesThe family hopes to raise 500,000 pounds ($790,000) to stop the 50-year-old brick and polystyrene shed ― p
Sept. 14, 2011
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New book shows another side to Jackie Kennedy
Book comes out as part of an ongoing celebration of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s first year in officeNEW YORK (AP) ― It’s a side of Jacqueline Kennedy only friends and family knew. Funny and inquisitive, canny and cutting.In “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With Joh
Sept. 13, 2011
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New Books
A savage critique of China’s ‘great rise’Why China Will Never Rule the WorldBy Troy Parfitt(Western Hemisphere Press)The title of “Why China Will Never Rule the World” points to a provocative argument, but few readers will be prepared for just how damning an assessment author Troy Parfitt makes of a
Sept. 9, 2011
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Modern life in desolation
Tower of AntsBy Choi In-ho(Hollym)A young man who isn’t happy with his job as a copy writer for an advertising company, one day finds his flat suddenly infested with ants. He tries to get them out of his place, but their numbers only grow until they take over his personal space. This grotesque and r
Sept. 9, 2011