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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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US will take steps for three-way engagement on nuclear deterrence with S. Korea, Japan: Campbell
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[Herald Interview] CICI chief Choi takes modern look at Korean culture
Choi Jung-wha, a professor at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, has released the English version of her new book, “K-Style: Living the Korean Way of Life,” which delves deep into the evolution of modern Korean living. Through her book, the founder and president of the Corea Image Communications Institute intended to arouse interest and curiosity about all things Korea and the Korean way of life. Choi said her desire to raise international interest in Korean society was first ignited dec
June 27, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Poetry in a world with no answers
When Brother Anthony was teaching English literature at Sogang University in the 1980s, he would frequent bookstores on weekends -- bookstores that were filled with students of all ages sitting on the floor, reading poetry. “They expected to find sincerity in poetry,” he told The Korea Herald last Friday in an interview at his office in Seoul, filled to the brim with books and teapots -- Brother Anthony is a renowned Korean tea enthusiast. “If you’re searching for some kind of in-depth meaning i
June 22, 2016
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'Frozen' coming to new books, Lego animated shorts
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Disney is letting “Frozen” go in new directions. The company says Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven from the blockbuster 2013 animated film will appear in both new books from Random House and an animated short film series from the Lego Group. The eight-book series “Frozen Northern Lights” will revolve around the characters attempting to restore the aurora borealis with a new troll protagonist named Little Rock. This image released by Disney Publishing shows the cover of
June 22, 2016
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Fox News host Bret Baier working on book about Eisenhower
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News host and chief political anchor Bret Baier is working on a book about the waning days of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency and the beginning of John F. Kennedy’s administration. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, told the Associated Press on Monday that Baier’s “Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission” would come out in January, around the time the successor to President Barack Obama will be sworn in. Baier will focus on Eisenhower’s
June 22, 2016
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Anne Tyler tames Shakespeare's 'Shrew'
Last fall Hogarth Press published the first in a series of novels by contemporary writers reimagining Shakespeare's plays on the 400th anniversary of his death. So far we’ve had Jeanette Winterson’s “The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold” and Howard Jacobson’s “Shylock is My Name,” an interpretation of “The Merchant of Venice.” Now Anne Tyler has written a charming and witty adaptation of “The Taming of the Shrew,” moving it to Baltimore, where many of her novels are set, and dialing down S
June 22, 2016
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Fiction should be marketed as 'good,' not 'Korean'
Writers such as Han Kang and Haruki Murakami are “rapturously received” by the international audience not because they document a certain culture or ethnicity, but because of the artistic value of their work, according to award-winning translator Deborah Smith. “When a writer succeeds on the international stage, they become, for an audience, an international writer,” Smith said at a forum on Korean literature’s global expansion held Sunday as part of the Seoul International Book Fair. Smith join
June 20, 2016
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US author Richard Ford wins top Spanish prize for literature
MADRID (AP) -- U.S. writer Richard Ford, author of the widely acclaimed novel “Independence Day,” has won Spain’s prestigious Asturias prize for literature in recognition of his contribution to American letters.The award foundation Wednesday described Ford, 72, as the “great chronicler of the mosaic of interrelated stories that is North American society,” and the considered heir to U.S. literary giants Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.The foundation highlighted Ford’s sobriety, precision an
June 16, 2016
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‘The Vegetarian’ translator speaks out
Award-winning translator Deborah Smith said Wednesday that staying faithful to the spirit of a text was her priority. And the spirit that she tried to preserve in Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian” was one of “tenderness and terror at the same time, never too far one way, always this very perfect balance,” said Smith at a press conference held at the Seoul International Book Fair on Wednesday.“The style was so controlled, restrained, without being cold and indifferent, and so those two things were the
June 15, 2016
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Gregory Rabassa, translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, dies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gregory Rabassa, a translator of worldwide influence and esteem who helped introduce Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and other Latin American authors to millions of English-language readers, has died.A longtime professor at Queens College, Rabassa died Monday at a hospice in Branford, Connecticut. He was 94 and died after a brief illness, according to his daughter, Kate Rabassa Wallen.Rabassa was an essential gateway to the 1960s Latin American “boom,” when such authors a
June 15, 2016
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‘The Never Ending Wars’: A scathing account of U.S. military failure and ineptitude
Andrew Bacevich studied at West Point and Princeton University and served in the U.S. Army for 22 years. He is well qualified to bring the reader a broad, informed perspective on the subject he addresses -- the U.S. military’s role in multiple presidents' largely unsuccessful efforts to bring a widely varied, very different region under American hegemony. “America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History” accomplishes this feat.The American military, apart from a series of self-hagi
June 15, 2016
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‘House of Secrets’ parodies thriller cliches
The truth is out there, and it may set you free, but can you really handle the truth? And, maybe, just maybe, every turn of events is really a conspiracy in disguise with a bit of truthiness. These and other pop culture axioms that have made their way into the lexicon of common speech are part of the foundation of the 11th novel by international best-seller Brad Meltzer.With “The House of Secrets,” Meltzer launches a new thriller series that will delve heavily into historical conspiracy theories
June 15, 2016
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Nobel laureate makes grim assessment of post-Soviet life
HAY-ON-WYE, Wales (AP) -- In the view of Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Russia is taking refuge in ideas from its Soviet past, but this nostalgia collides with newer, darker forces.In an interview with the Associated Press at the Hay Festival of literature, the 68-year-old Alexievich assessed what she has learned from decades of talking with the ordinary people of the Soviet Union and the countries that emerged after its 1991 collapse. Alexievich books are full of compelling voic
June 12, 2016
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[Eye Interview] Canadian scholar says there’s no such thing as ‘perfect’ translation
For Theresa Hyun -- a Canadian professor of Korean studies and a Korean-language poet -- straddling cultures and translating languages have come to be essential parts of her life. For her poems, Hyun undertakes a creative process that is doubly atypical: Not only does she both write and translate her own work, she writes her poems in Korean -- the language that she learned latest in life and that is most unfamiliar to her -- and then translates them into English, her mother tongue. Despite, or
June 10, 2016
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Irish writer wins prestigious women’s fiction prize
LONDON (AFP) - Irish writer Lisa McInerney was awarded the prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in London on Wednesday for her debut novel “The Glorious Heresies.”Margaret Mountford, the chair of the judges, said it was a “superbly original, compassionate novel that delivers insights into the very darkest of lives through humor and skillful storytelling.” The 30,000 pound ($43,500) award, previously known as the Orange prize, is presented each year to the best novel written by a woman
June 9, 2016
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Seoul Book Fair to spotlight French, Italian writers
This year’s Seoul International Book Fair, set to take place next week at Coex Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul will highlight French and Italian books, the annual book fair organizers said at a press conference Wednesday. France, invited as the “Culture Focus” country, will introduce a new generation of French writers, said Anthony Chaumuzeau, director of the French Institute in Seoul. From left: French writer Antoine Laurain (Philippe Matsas/Seoul International Book Fair), French cook a
June 8, 2016
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Summer reads include local favorites and national hits
NEW YORK (AP) -- When customers at Indigo Books in Johns Island, South Carolina, ask for a good beach read, Mary Alice Monroe’s “A Lowcountry Wedding” is an obvious choice. Not only does Monroe live nearby, her book is set along the South Carolina coast.“It’s a surefire hit,” says Indigo owner Linda Malcolm, who also recommends Louise Penny’s upcoming “A Great Reckoning” and John Sandford’s “Extreme Prey.”With summer approaching, bookstores are offering local favorites and national hits, faraway
June 8, 2016
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Ivanka Trump book ‘Women Who Work’ coming next spring
NEW YORK (AP) -- Another Trump book is in the works -- this time by daughter Ivanka.The publisher Portfolio told the Associated Press on Monday that it had acquired Ivanka Trump’s “Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success.” Financial details weren’t disclosed for the book, scheduled for next spring.According to Portfolio, a business imprint of Penguin Random House, the book will advocate an “inclusive and celebratory” vision for working women and help them “create the lives they want to li
June 8, 2016
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Online resource for books launches aggregator for reviews
NEW YORK (AP) -- An online resource for literary content is hoping to create the publishing equivalent of Rotten Tomatoes.Literary Hub (lithub.com) announced Tuesday the launch of Book Marks, compiling reviews from more than 70 outlets ranging from the New York Times to the Las Vegas Weekly. Reviews will include links to the original publications, and individual books will be assigned composite letter grades by Lit Hub editors. Any work that has been reviewed three or more times will be listed i
June 8, 2016
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‘Ink and Bone’ takes a frightening turn to the supernatural
“Ink and Bone” By Lisa Unger Touchstone (352 pages, $24.99) The Hollows, an idyllic sounding town in upstate New York, keeps calling to author Lisa Unger. This fictional town that attracts those seeing a respite from New York City or want a smaller community to call home also has a dark side that rears its head and takes residents on emotional roller-coasters that test their mettle and moral compass. Each of Unger’s novels set in The Hollows follows a different set of characters with the town a
June 8, 2016
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Exploration of what it means to be human
“Becoming Wise” By Krista Tippett The Penguin Press (288 pages, $28) Most of us can only dream of the dinner parties Krista Tippett could put together. We’re lucky, then, that her new book is the next best thing to an invitation to sit down, make ourselves at home and prepare for a mind-expanding exploration of what it means to be human. With “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living,” Tippett expands on interviews that became fascinating fodder for her award-winning NPR pro
June 8, 2016