care for human suffering and wounds...Han River's Art World

[Anchor]
Han Kang has delicately depicted human violence and life wounds in his major works.


5.18 and 4.3 events, etc., were written in a lyrical style to warmly care for minorities.

Reporter Na Yeon-soo reports on the world of Han River's works.

[Reporter]
a simple, lyrical style, a soft, sharp look.

Han Kang's work is difficult and not easy, but after reading it, it leaves a long lingering feeling.

This is because there is a warmth that cares for the marginalized while revealing human wounds.

[Han Kang / Author (Last 2016): (The Boy Is Coming) The most painful motivation for writing this novel was the pain of human violence, but eventually, as I moved on through writing, I thought more about human dignity.]

Her first novel, "The Love of Yeosu," released in 1995, depicts the wounds of people at the bottom,

'My Woman's Fruit' delicately expresses the pain of those struggling in the swamp of despair.

The Booker Prize-winning "Vegetarian" captures the violence in an unstable life intensely and sensibly.

5.18 A boy is coming', which deals with the Gwangju democratization movement, has drawn sympathy by extending personal wounds to themes that penetrate the times.The author always paid attention to human wounds and suffering, such as 'Do Not Say Goodbye', which depicts the tragedy of the

4.3 incident, also unravels the anguish of life through the eyes of three women.

[Yoo Seong-ho / Hanyang University Professor of Korean Language: Male writers focused on realistically recreating the process and path of scarring in history, but the Han River went to the inside of the story, the moment, and the narrator.]

Han Kang's work brings to the fore figures of the surrounding areas, including non-Western countries, women, and minorities.

At the same time, he did not miss violence and wounds, which are the universal problems of humanity, and contained warm human sensibilities in them.

This is why the Nobel Prize for Literature chose the Han River.

I'm Na Yeonsoo from YTN.


Video editing: Kim Hee-jung