Novelist Jo Jung-rae chooses love for his final novel
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Quick summary- 1"I'm getting older, and the time I have left to write stories is growing shorter as I approach the final chapter of my life," Jo, 83, sa
- 2Jo Jung-rae had spent more than five decades writing about war, history and the upheavals of Korean society.
- 3He had never written a love story.
Jo Jung-rae had spent more than five decades writing about war, history and the upheavals of Korean society. He had never written a love story. "I'm getting older, and the time I have left to write stories is growing shorter as I approach the final chapter of my life," Jo, 83, said at a press conference Monday in central Seoul. "The thought suddenly came to me: Why not write a love story now?" Jo made his literary debut in 1970 and devoted much of his career to exploring Korea's turbulent histor
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