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Dongduk Women’s University halts coeducation talks
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Defense ministry denies special treatment for BTS’ V amid phone use allegations
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Russia sent 'anti-air' missiles to Pyongyang, Yoon's aide says
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OpenAI in talks with Samsung to power AI features, report says
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Two jailed for forcing disabled teens into prostitution
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Trump picks ex-N. Korea policy official as his principal deputy national security adviser
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South Korean military plans to launch new division for future warfare
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Kia EV9 GT marks world debut at LA Motor Show
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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Gold bars and cash bundles; authorities confiscate millions from tax dodgers
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Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale
LONDON (AP) -- British bookshops opened their doors early Thursday and some grown-up Harry Potter fans lined up overnight as J.K. Rowling launched her long-anticipated first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy."The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books p
Sept. 27, 2012
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Germany’s ex-first lady denies having worked as escort
BERLIN (AFP) ― Germany’s former first lady, Bettina Wulff, denies she ever worked as an escort in a book to be published Wednesday, seven months after the ex-president stepped down over a political favors scandal.In a chapter entitled “The Rumours,” 38-year-old Wulff seeks to snuff out stories that have swirled about an alleged previous life suggesting she worked as call girl under the pseudonym “Lady Viktoria.” The former PR executive, who married Christian Wulff in 2008 and with whom she has a
Sept. 11, 2012
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Woman sues after overdue 'Twilight' arrest
A New Mexico woman is suing her city after she spent the night in jail as a result of an overdue "Twilight" book and DVD from the library.Lori Teel, whose attorney sent a tort claim notice to the Portales city clerk Monday, said police officers visiting her home on a report of a disturbance June 12 arrested her in front of her five children, ages 1 to 10, and she spent the night at the Roosevelt C
June 29, 2012
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Can women 'have it all?' U.S. writer stirs debate
An Ivy League scholar and mother-of-two is touching a raw nerve by questioning whether high-flying career women with families, at least American ones, can truly "have it all."Writing in The Atlantic magazine, Anne-Marie Slaughter cited her own downshift from powerful State Department official to mere Princeton University professor as evidence that they cannot, at least not as US society now stands
June 28, 2012
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Time cover shows mom breastfeeding 3-year-old
Shocking or no big deal? A woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week's Time magazine for a story on ``attachment parenting,'' and reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs.The photo showed Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says her mother breastfed her until she was 6 years old. She told the magazine in an interview that she's gi
May 11, 2012
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Harry Potter novels available as eBooks
British author J.K. Rowling's seven Harry Potter books are for the first time available for all types of electronic readers.The eBook versions of the blockbuster fantasy novels can be purchased exclusively at Rowling's Pottermore.com Web site as of Tuesday.More than 450 million hard copies of the se
March 28, 2012
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Korea's Shin wins Asia's top literary award
South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin won Asia's most prestigious prize for literature on Thursday for her novel about a family's guilty soul-searching after the disappearance of their elderly mother.Judges of the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize described Shin's novel "Please Look After Mom", which has
March 16, 2012
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US comic collection expected to get $2M at auction
A collection of some of the most prized comic books ever published is expected to fetch more than $2 million at auction this week in the U.S.Michael Rorrer said he thought his great uncle Billy Wright's comics were cool, but he didn't realize how valuable they were for months after finding the 345 c
Feb. 22, 2012
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Amanda Knox book rights sold for $4 mn: report
Amanda Knox, who was acquitted last year of murdering her British roommate while studying in Italy, has sold the rights to her memoir for $4 million, The New York Times reported on Thursday.The newspaper, citing people familiar with the negotiations, said that HarperCollins acquired the rights after
Feb. 17, 2012
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‘Steve Jobs’ delves deep into complex man’s life
“Steve Jobs” (Simon & Schuster), by Walter Isaacson: “Steve Jobs” takes off the rose-colored glasses that often follow an icon’s untimely death and instead offers something far more valuable: The chronicle of a complex, brash genius who was crazy enough to think he could change the world -- and did.
Oct. 25, 2011
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Bombings, beheadings? Stats show a peaceful world
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It seems as if violence is everywhere, but it’s really on the run.Yes, thousands of people have died in bloody unrest from Africa to Pakistan, while terrorists plot bombings and kidnappings. Wars drag on in Iraq and Afghanistan. In peaceful Norway, a man massacred 69 youths in Jul
Oct. 23, 2011
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Korean author debuts in English with popular novel
NEW YORK (AP) --There's a big difference between ``mother'' and ``mom.''``Mother'' is someone to be respected, perhaps held at arm's length. But ``mom'' is an intimate name. It's the woman on the floor playing with her child, wisps of hair falling around her face, instead of the woman in the starche
Aug. 7, 2011
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Marvel: New Ultimate Spider-Man boasts big changes
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Peter Parker is dead and gone, but Spider-Man’s still slinging webs and fighting crime.A half-black, half-Latino teenager named Miles Morales, as unveiled by Marvel Comics (Yonhap News)And it’s not just a new teenager climbing Manhattan buildings, it’s an entirely new crime
Aug. 4, 2011
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Smurf this! Scholar sees Stalin in comic-book realm
PARIS (AFP) - Just in time for Global Smurfs Day and a Smurfs movie in 3-D comes a little blue book from a French academic that has some fans of the sock-topped comic book characters seeing red.Antoine Bueno, who lectures at the high-brow Paris Institute of Political Studies, thought he was just having fun when he penned his 177-page analysis of the politics of Smurfland that's just been publishe
June 8, 2011
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Shin’s novel climbing NYT bestseller list
“Please Look After Mom,” the English edition of a Korean novel by Shin Kyung-sook, is climbing the bestseller list of the New York Times, setting a new record in Korean literature.The book ranked 21st in the hardcover fiction category of NYT’s bestseller list to be released on April 24, said KL Management, which handles the book’s copyright.The ranking is based on total sales from April 3-9. Shin’
April 17, 2011
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S. Korea welcomes accord with France on transfer of 'Oegyujanggak' royal books
South Korea on Thursday welcomed an agreement with France to transfer centuries-old Korean royal books from Paris to Seoul between March and May beginning with the first shipment later this month.Officials from the national museums of the two countries signed the agreement in Paris on Wednesday to transport 297 volumes of the "Oegyujanggak" to Seoul in four shipments from March 28, according to th
March 17, 2011
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[Korea best seller] Under the subconsciousness
Under the subconsciousnessThe Other Side of Dark RemembranceBy Lee Kyun-young(Jimoondang, 5,000 won)Unlike many other novels written on the Korean War (1950-1953), author Lee Kyun-young’s “The Other Side of Dark Remembrance” does not hold ideological conflicts of the two Koreas at its front.Instead, it follows the mundane life of an office worker with a low salary living in Seoul. The man had lost
Feb. 11, 2011
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Memoir of U.S.–Korea FTAKim Hyun-jong talks of U.S.―Korea FTABy Kim Hyun-jong(Hongsungsa, 19,000 won) Kim Hyun-jong is the former minister for trade in the late President Roh Moo-hyun administration. Being one of the central figures in the administration’s trade policy from 2003 to 2007, Kim initiated numerous free trade agreement (FTA) plans with Mexico, India, Canada, Singapore, MERCOSUR, EFTA,
Feb. 11, 2011
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