Hyun, Kim Hye-soo, Moon Ga-young, etc. also share articles to congratulate the winner

Source: The Fact DB

[The Fact | Reporter Gong Mina] The entertainment industry is also congratulating novelist Han Kang for becoming the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

On the 10th, BTS V shared an article about Han Kang winning the Nobel Prize in Literature on his personal SNS and wrote, “I read ‘Boy Comes’ in the military. Congratulations.” RM also shared the same article, adding a crying face and heart emoticon.

Singer Hynn (real name Park Hye-won) also said on SNS, "I was so happy to hear the news of the author's Nobel Prize in Literature today. I would like to sincerely congratulate you. I am even more proud that you have moved the world with your unique perspective and insight through Korean works." Hynn was deeply moved by the line "Even if I get dirty, I will only pass on white things" in Han Kang's novel "White" and named herself after it.

In addition, actors Kim Hye-soo, Ryu Jun-yeol, Moon Ga-young, Kim Min-ha, Ok Ja-yeon, and Seolhyun also shared the news of Han Kang's award on SNS and congratulated her.

Source: Newsis

On the 10th (local time), the Swedish Academy announced that it had selected Han Kang as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Regarding Han Kang's work, the Academy said, "It confronts historical trauma and invisible rules, and reveals the fragility of human life," and "She has become an innovator of modern prose with a unique perception of the connection between body and soul, the living and the dead, and a poetic and experimental style."

Han Kang is the first Korean writer and the first Asian female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the second Korean to receive the Nobel Prize, following the late former President Kim Dae-jung, who won the Peace Prize in 2000.

Han Kang, the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won, first debuted as a poet in 1993 when her poem was published in the winter issue of the quarterly literary magazine 'Literature and Society', and debuted as a novelist in 1994 when her short story 'Red Anchor' won the Seoul Shinmun New Year's Literary Contest.

Han Kang, who has been actively working by winning various novel awards, became known internationally in 2016 when she won the Man Booker International Prize, one of the world's three major literary awards, for her novel 'The Vegetarian'. She later won the Italian Malaparte Literary Award for her novel 'The Boy Comes' in 2017 and the Spanish San Clemente Literary Award for 'The Vegetarian' in 2018. Last year, she was honored with the French Prix Médicis for Foreign Literature for her novel 'No Farewell'.