Hoam Prize winners

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, fifth from left in the front row, and his wife Hong Ra-hee, on his left, pose with Prime Minister Chung Hong-won, fourth from left in the same row, and winners of this year’s Hoam Prize, including Harold Hwang, Stanford University researcher and winner of the prize in science, far left in the front row; Shin Kyung-sook, a novelist and winner of the prize in arts, second from right in the front row and Lee Se-jin, a biologist at Johns Hopkins University and winner of the prize in Medicine, center in the second row at the Hoam Art Hall in Seoul, Friday. Hoam Prize is the annual Samsung Group award celebrating distinguished Koreans and foreign individuals for their contribution to science, culture and welfare. / Yonhap