A month after the Nobel Prize for Literature...What the Han River Syndrome left behind.

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It's already been a month since novelist Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for Literature for the first time in Korea.The publishing industry cheered for the first time in a long time at the

'Paper Book Boom', but there are also a lot of homework, such as revealing the bare face of the publishing industry, which has been hidden so far.We've pointed out the month of

'Han River Syndrome'.

[Reporter]

[Mats Malm / Swedish Academy: The winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature is Korean writer Han Kang]

[Han Kang / Writer/ Nobel Prize winner: (Nobel Committee) After hanging up the phone, I checked the media report, and I realized the reality then]

Novelist Han Kang was chosen as the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature and the Han River craze blew.

[Park Soo-wan / Yonggang-dong, Seoul] I was very proud and I wanted to read it.]

A book store open run to buy books and a happy scream from a printing shop that printed books all night.

It was simply "Miracle on the Han River."

[Jung Dae-geun / Print company employee: I hope this happens a lot even though it's hard]

One million paper books were sold in a week due to the effect of the Han River Nobel Prize.

The warmth spread throughout the cultural world, with the re-release of two original novels.

[Park Soyeon / Starring the movie "Scars" : We're so thankful that the work we did is mentioned again]
The Seochon Bookstore by Han Kang, which was crowded with many citizens shortly after winning the
award.

The heat has gone out more than then, but it is still a place for pilgrimage to the Holy Land that citizens cannot just pass by.

Flowers that were placed immediately after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature are now removed, and only a notice is posted on the door that they will be closed for the time being.

The local bookstore, not far from the Han River bookstore, is also smiling after a long time.

This is because about half of the recent visitors to the bookstore buy books by Han Kang.

[Nam Ga-hee / 'Book Salon Textbook' Manager: Buy a book by Han Kang and buy one (other book) together. In that sense, I think it's a really good thing for our local bookstore.

However, local bookstores have called for this opportunity to innovate the book distribution structure.

This is because while the three large bookstores actually monopolized publishing and distribution, the local bookstores were alienated and had a hard time right after the Han River won.

As interest in individual books grew, 17 years after the book's release, unusually, the content of the novel was also controversial.

[Han Kang / Writer/ Nobel Prize winner in Literature (last 2016): If we take this as an answer, it will be an even more mysterious story. But fiction is just a question.]

Last year, some schools in Gyeonggi-do Province designated the book as a harmful book for teenagers was under fire at the parliamentary audit.

[Rep. Baek Seung-ah / Minjoo Party of Korea] Do you think it's a harmful sex education book?]

[Im Tae-hee / Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Superintendent: If it's our children, I recommend reading it after graduating from high school.]

{The paper book is over' The Han River syndrome appeared in a surprise manner.

In order not to stop at the sparkling effect, there are voices that need to be supported by follow-up measures to broaden the base of reading culture.

I'm YTN's Kim Seung Hwan.

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