"I'm sorry. Banned," "Korean and highest output"…Netizens are also excited about the Han River.

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Netizens are also strongly responding to the news of author Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature.

Han Kang's history is also drawing attention by sharing a list of Han Kang's novels or mentioning that he has achieved great achievements as a humanities graduate.

Han Kang was born in Gwangju, came to Seoul as a child, went to Pungmun Girls' High School, and graduated from Yonsei University's Department of Korean Literature. After graduating from university, he worked for a magazine company called Samter, first appearing as a poet in 1993, and then as a novelist the following year.

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Netizens are enthusiastic about Han River winning the 2016 Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature among the world's three major literary awards.

"From today, 'I'm sorry' (I'm sorry it's a liberal arts department) banned", and 'What do you do when you get a Korean language department? Reactions such as "Riding the Nobel Prize for Literature," "The Korean Language and the Best Output," "Literature and Literature Win," "I poured water right after hearing the news and made it into the Han River," and "Living Legend" came up.

{I'm sorry'(I'm sorry it's a liberal arts major) is an expression that humanities students self-deprecate of the difficulty of finding employment.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team