South Koreans flocked to book stores on Friday and crashed websites in a frenzy to snap up copies of the work of novelist Han Kang in her home country, after her unexpected win of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

South Koreans have reacted with joy and astonishment after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked national pride about the country’s growing cultural influence.

South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked national pride about the country’s growing cultural influence.

Han Kang’s work explores historical traumas and human fragility First South Korean to win Nobel literature prize Novel ‘The Vegetarian’ was major international breakthrough ‘I’ll celebrate quietly’ with tea,

A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. She was awarded for books, including “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts,” that explore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea’s turbulent history.

South Korean author Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday, has vowed after receiving other top literary awards that she would continue writing "as if nothing had happened". She is only the second South Korean to receive a Nobel prize,

South Korean author Han Kang, who won the Man Booker International Prize, poses for a photo during her first press conference since the award, in Seoul on May 24, 2016. South Korean author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024,

South Korean Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of hum