BTS and others congratulate Han Kang for Nobel Prize win
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South Korean author Han Kang has received The Nobel Prize in Literature for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. Several Korean artists and celebrities, including BTS members, took to social media to congratulate Kang and celebrate her success. Kim Namjoon, the leader of the globally popular boyband BTS took to Instagram to share a post congratulating her.
Fellow BTS member Kim Taehyung aka V too, shared the same post on his Instagram story section and wrote in Korean, “Congratulations, I read Human Acts’ while in military.” Han Kang became the first Asian woman to receive this honour. Besides BTS, several Korean celebrities also congratulated her. Singer Hynn (Park Hye-won) shared that she chose this stage name after reading Han’s novel The White Book.
Past Lives actor Tee Yoo, K-pop group AOA member Seolhyun, actor Ryu Deok-hwan and TV personality Choi Hee also congratulated the author.
Han Kang is an acclaimed author best known for her novel The Vegetarian. Its English translation was the first Korean-language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction.
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