Hangang "Special Emotion Over the Past Week... I Want to Meet Readers Through Books"

Writer Han River said on the 17th, "The past week will be remembered by me as a special inspiration," adding, "As I have done so far, I want to continue writing and meet readers through my books."

Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (center), is attending the 18th PonyJeong Innovation Award ceremony held at I'Park Tower in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on the 17th. The PonyJeong Foundation selected writer Han Kang as the recipient of the PonyJeong Innovation Award. From the right, Park Young-ja, the late Jeong Se-young, Honorary Chairman of Hyundai Development Company’s wife, Jeong Mong-gyu, Chairman of the PonyJeong Foundation (Chairman of HDC), and writer Han Kang.
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Han attended the 18th Ponyjeong Innovation Award ceremony held at Ponyjeong Hall, I-Park Tower, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, in the afternoon of the same day and made these remarks.

Han said, "Some people were concerned about the quietness of my personal life," adding, "I believe and hope that my daily life will not change much from before." He continued, "I hope to meet readers with a new work in the first half of next year, but since I am always wrong when predicting the completion time of a novel, I find it difficult to specify an exact time."

This is the first time that writer Han has attended a domestic external event and expressed his views since the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature on the 10th.