The HighwayBy C.J. Box (Minotaur)“The Highway” is the summer’s most terrifying novel.With three-dimensional characters and a gripping plot, “The Highway” is even more frightening because of its back story. C.J. Box bases his story on the real hunt for a murderer working as a long-haul trucker ― the FBI’s Highway Serial Killer Task Force. For his 17th novel, Box puts aside his best-known character, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, to return to Cody Holt, a Montana sheriff’s department investigato

LONDON (AP) ― Author J.K. Rowling accepted an apology and a charitable donation Wednesday from a law firm which revealed she wrote a crime novel under a pseudonym.The “Harry Potter” author was exposed by a newspaper earlier this month as the author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” a thriller ostensibly written by former soldier and first-time novelist Robert Galbraith.The book was published in April to good reviews but modest sales, and there was speculation that Rowling or her publisher had leaked th

Yi So-yeonYi So-yeon, the first South Korean in space, is to marry in the United States this month. The 35-year-old scientist’s bridegroom-to-be is an American eye doctor of Korean ancestry. Their wedding ceremony will be held in Long Beach, California, on Aug. 2, according to Korea Aerospace Research Institute in Daejeon.Yi currently resides in the States. She graduated from Gwangju Science High School in 1997 and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering at the Korea Adv

Cha Young, 51, former spokeswoman of the then-Democratic United Party, has filed a paternity suit against Cho Hee-jun, 48, former chairman of the daily newspaper Kookmin Ilbo, claiming that she gave birth to his son.Cho is the eldest son of David Cho Yong-gi, 77, founder and pastor emeritus of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul. According to local news media on Thursday, Cha filed the suit with the Seoul Family Court against Cho on Wednesday.  In the suit, Cha asked the court to confirm that

The award ceremony for the second Seoul National University of Education-Korea Herald English Contest (SKEC) took place at the British ambassador’s residence in Seoul on Wednesday.A total of 15 students won the top prizes, in categories divided by age and the amount of time entrants spent living overseas. Among the winners are Park Ye-rin for the high-school level, Park Jae-young for the middle-school level and Park Hye-hyoun for the elementary-school level.Other awards including the second-high

MINNEAPOLIS ― Kristine Huson can spot a designer label at Goodwill in seconds. She can zip through the racks of her favorite vintage store even faster.The 42-year-old South St. Paul, Minnesota, woman has joined an ethical fashion movement of consumers striving to be more mindful of their buying habits. These socially conscious style mavens want to know where their clothes came from, who made them and how they got here. For some, that means buying American-made; others sew their own. Shoppers lik

The Corea Image Communication Institute will host its fourth annual Culture Communication Forum next month, inviting a wide range of cultural icons from 16 countries to Korea in the hope of increasing understanding and knowledge of the nation as a brand. “I think through this forum people will have a better opportunity to communicate by exchanging cultures,” said CICI president Choi Jung-wha. “Here people can not only come to experience Korean culture, but talk and exchange ideas with others and

Important ancient Korean artifacts that were to be the highlight of an upcoming exhibition on the art of the ancient kingdom of Silla at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will not be displayed as the Cultural Heritage Administration ordered they remain in Korea due to risks of potential damage. One of the artifacts, the gilt-bronze Buddhist statue “Pensive Bodhisattva” from the Silla Kingdom (B.C. 57-A.D. 935), was to have been the highlight of the new exhibition “Silla: Korea’s Golden

NEW YORK (AFP) ― In the concrete jungle of New York City, where open sky can be hard to find, the latest luxury offering is a night under the stars ― or, under twinkling city lights, at least.From terraces and high-rise balconies atop Art Deco buildings or glass-walled modern structures, this new breed of hotel offers straight-up views, with nary a window pane or curtain to impede the breeze. And in a city where air pollution, bright lights and the dizzyingly tall skyscrapers of the Manhattan sk

LONDON (AFP) ― British police said Tuesday they have recovered a rare Stradivarius violin worth 1.2 million pounds ($1.8 million) that was stolen from its owner in a London railway cafe in 2010.Thieves took the antique instrument, which was made in 1696, and two valuable bows from Korean-born violinist Kym Min-jin as she ate at London’s Euston station.It was recovered from a property in central England last week, police said, without giving further details. Three people were jailed in connection

Kim Bok-dong, a 88-year-old Korean woman who was held as a sex slave by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, attended a ceremony to unveil a monument to the so-called comfort women in Glendale, California, Tuesday. According to the Los Angeles Times and Yonhap News on Tuesday, Glendale dropped unveiled a metal statue that is to become a lasting testament to the pain and suffering endured by an estimated 200,000 sex slaves from Korea, China, Indonesia and other occupied countries durin