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Sat, August 24, 2019 | 01:33

Michelle Obama memoir is next pick for Winfrey book club

Michelle Obama's ``Becoming,'' already expected to sell millions of copies, now has the official backing of Oprah Winfrey. ``This book is everything you wanted to know and so much you didn't even know you wanted to know. I believe it's going to spark within you the desire to think about your own becoming,'' Winfrey, who on Monday told The Associated Press in a statement that ...

2018-11-13 10:18

Serafina's adventure to risky world to capture child kidnapper

Written by Robert Beatty and recently translated into Korean by Kim Ji-yeon, “Serafina and the Black Cloak” is the first of the Serafina Trilogy. The story is set in 1899 in the time of the opulent Gilded Age.

2018-10-26 16:37

Decade after separation, Korean-American family reunited against all odds

Korean-American pastor Jacob Siung-tuk Kim's life became entangled in Korea's tumultuous modern history heralded by Japan's brutal colonial rule of Korea from 1910 to 1945.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2018-10-21 17:11

Marriage operates on teamwork

In the past, for women in their 20s and 30s, finding a suitable husband was considered a higher priority than having a career.

2018-10-19 18:12

When victims' signal for help goes unheard

In the award-winning fantasy fiction “Solitary Castle in the Mirror,” author Mizuki Tsujimura delves into what's deep inside the victims' minds and consoles those wounded souls with her comforting words - it's not your fault, so don't blame yourself anymore.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2018-10-19 18:07

Novelist Martin Limon brings murder mystery to Korean DMZ in 'The Line'

U.S. Army veteran Martin Limon is set to publish “The Line,” his 13th novel about Sueno and Bascom, this time sending the two Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents right up to the demarcation line with North Korea. The plot starts intensely at the Joint Security Area (JSA), as the two are called to investigate a murder victim lying halfway into North Korea. They invest...

2018-10-12 17:23

Highbrow vs. lowbrow literature

In literary circles, there has been “a dominant culture of ignorance” on middlebrow fiction, accessible books of which genre stands somewhere between highbrow and lowbrow novels, and this has lasted for decades since the 1980s.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2018-10-12 16:58

'Made by Raffi' calls for accepting difference

Education, especially in a child's early developmental years, is crucial in influencing how one perceives the world.

2018-10-12 16:46

New book debunks taboo issue of menstruation

Although many aspects of female empowerment have made significant progress in recent decades, stigmatization against menstruation remains prevalent: from young girls who are taught to be scared of their periods to older women who are no longer deemed desirable after menopause, women still face prejudice at every stage of menstruation.

2018-10-05 18:06

Children's book inspired by scenic Jeju goes global

Bae Su-hyun, the founder of the independent publisher Round Ground based in Gyeonggi Province, has signed publishing contracts for “Finger Play,” a picture book for children, with French, Chinese and Taiwanese publishers.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2018-10-05 08:15

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