Nobel laureate Han Kang reflects on Korea's martial law 'bombshell'
“Like everyone else that night (on Dec. 3), I was in a state of shock. While writing ‘Human Acts,’ I spent a lot of time researching the events leading up to the emergency martial law of 1979, but it felt like a bombshell to witness a similar situation unfold before my own eyes in 2024,” reflected Han Kang, this year’s Nobel Prize laureate in literature, addressing a room full of international journalists at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Friday.
Dec 7, 2024By Park Han-sol
