Wednesday night marked a rare optimistic moment for Korea — a nation currently mired in political turmoil — as Han Kang, 54, glided across the signature blue carpet of the Stockholm Concert Hall to accept her Nobel Prize in Literature in Sweden.

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South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country.

Author Han Kang (pic), this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer – all the way back to when she was eight years old.

In front of hundreds of people, South Korean writer Han Kang quietly read from a poem she wrote in April 1979, when she was 8. During the Swedish Academy’s ceremony for Nobel laureates on Saturday (local time),

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has spoken passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all the way back to when she was

Nobel laureate Han Kang's award ceremony approaching Shin Mi-sung (L), a South Korean national of Sweden, recites a work by South Korean author Han Kang in Stockholm on the night of Dec. 8, 2024, ahead of Han's Nobel Prize for Literature award ceremony.

In a poignant lecture, titled, "Light and Thread," Nobel Prize winner Han Kang revisited the roots of her literary journey, starting with a poem book she wrote at the age of 8. Speaking in Korean to an audience of hundreds in Stockholm on Friday,