From the president to K-pop megastars BTS, South Korea erupted into celebration after The Vegetarian author Han Kang won the ...

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han ...

Novelist Han Kang has made history by becoming the first Asian woman and first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy awarded her the prestigious prize for her “intense ...

Han Kang has become the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the committee praising her "poetic and ...

While Han Kang’s victory was celebrated as a crowning cultural achievement for her country, her work also represents a form ...

Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to global acclaim, getting her first big ...

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local ...

It's won Oscars. Its television shows and K-pop stars dominate global charts. Its leading novelist just won the Nobel ...

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her ...