Chinese writer failed to win..."Nobel Prize loses its purity". Cynics.

[Anchor]
A Chinese writer was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature this time, but she was defeated by Han Kang.This is the background of the cynical response that

The Nobel Prize has lost its purity.

A long-standing relationship between China and the Nobel Prize Committee is also a must.

This is Beijing correspondent Kang Jeong-gyu.

[Reporter]
A bookstore in central Beijing, Han Kang's novel translated into Chinese, is displayed in the center.

Another bookstore ran out of stock the day after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

[Bookstore employee: We won the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday, right? There are a lot of people looking for it today. [There are only 5 books of 4 types left]

Chinese media, including the official Xinhua News Agency, shed light on the world of Han River's awards.

Perhaps due to the failure of Chinese writer Chan Xue to win the award, he expressed antipathy, saying, "The Nobel Prize has lost its purity."

[Beijing resident] I think the reason why we wear political glasses (in the West) is because China has become stronger and there are more countries that support it.]

[Beijing resident] Why should we care about what Westerners think of us?]

The cynical response of the Chinese is also attributed to the Nobel Prize and its tough "bad relationship."

In 2010, when dissident activist Liu Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace Prize, China immediately broke up with Norway.

The reason was that the Norwegian parliament had the right to nominate judges to determine the winners.

In 2020, when the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, it banned imports of Norwegian salmon.

[Foreign Minister Wang Yi (last 2020): China firmly opposes anyone using the Nobel Peace Prize to interfere in internal affairs]

Of course, when Chinese novelist Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, the continent was shaken.

[Moyen / Chinese Writer (Back in 2012): I think newspaper censorship exists in any country in the world. The standard of censorship, the way of censorship is different.

However, he left a bitter aftertaste on one side, labelling him as a "author of language" and pointing fingers at China on the other.

I'm Kang Jeong-gyu from Beijing.