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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Dennis Lehane starting imprint at HarperCollins
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dennis Lehane is the latest brand-name publisher.The author of “Mystic River,” “Moonlight Mile” and other thrillers is overseeing a new imprint at HarperCollins.The publisher announced Monday that Dennis Lehane Books will issue “a select” number of literary fiction works each year t
Oct. 11, 2011
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Public criticism needed for reform of capitalism: Kocka
German academic discusses crisis of capitalism, lessons from German reunificationA good mixture between market dynamics, prudent forms of NGOs, and more government regulations of the finance system could bring ideal reforms to modern-day capitalism, and such reforms often come from crisi
Oct. 10, 2011
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Book fair to tackle challenges of digital age storytelling
BERLIN (AFP) ― Authors once just had to deal with a publisher but are now being forced to embrace the digital age and negotiate the rights to their works for TV, films and ebooks.Organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair, which opens on Wednesday, said the challenges thrown up by the upheaval in the boo
Oct. 9, 2011
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Founder of Dead Poets Society visits bards’ graves
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) ― The founder of the Dead Poets Society of America is visiting graves and other sites associated with Jack Kerouac and five others in his effort to recognize fallen bards.Walter Skold of Freeport, Maine, says the Dead Poets 2011 Magic Bus Tour is in Massachusetts on Friday to pa
Oct. 9, 2011
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New Books
Dinner without a recipeThe Kitchen Counter Cooking SchoolBy Kathleen Flinn(Viking)If you are going to read one book to change your diet and your life, “The Kitchen Counter Cooking School” is it.The second book by Le Cordon Bleu graduate Kathleen Flinn starts with her stalking a woman in the grocery
Oct. 7, 2011
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Author gives an insider’s guide to publishing
Jennifer Basye Sander has forgotten more about the publishing business than most of us will ever know.The New York Times best-selling author has written and co-written more than 50 books, including “The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Getting Published” (Alpha, $19.95, 400 pages; the fifth edition goes on
Oct. 7, 2011
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Grand Canyon’s majestic echoes
The vicarious pleasure of armchair travel is a well-explored genre for books, transporting the reader without ever opening a door. What such books do, when they are thoughtfully presented, is to share the excitement and immediacy of exploration while sparing the reader the discomfort.In “The Grand C
Oct. 7, 2011
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Japanese writer talks about life as laborer
Kenta Nishimura in Seoul for release of award-winning ‘Labor Train’He barely finished middle school, made his living as a day laborer, spent most of his money on liquor and sex, and somehow turned himself into a best-selling author. When Japanese writer Kenta Nishimura shared the prestigious 1
Oct. 5, 2011
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Annual New Yorker Fest has Shakespearean twist
NEW YORK (AP) ― To gab, perchance to argue. Ay, there’s the way to make New Yorker magazine fans happy.And so it was a delicious moment at the annual New Yorker Festival this past weekend when Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro mused to his co-panelist, Hollywood director Roland Emmerich: “I’ve long
Oct. 5, 2011
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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