Korean Novelist Han Kang at 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Korean novelist Han Kang has been chosen as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Swedish Nobel Committee revealed the reason for the selection of Han Kang's work, saying, "It is an intense poetic prose that faces historical trauma and reveals the fragility of human life."

This is the first time for a Korean writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

It is also the second time that a Korean has won a Nobel Prize after the late former President Kim Dae Jung, who won the Peace Prize in 2000.

The winner will be awarded 11 million krona in prize money, 1.34 billion won in Korean money, medals, and certificates.