Nobel laureate Han Kang craze revives Korean book market

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South Koreans have thronged to bookstores to snap up 2024 Nobel laureate Hang Kang’s novels, making her books and even those of her novelist father bestsellers just three days after she won the Nobel Prize in literature last week.

They didn’t bother to line up outside bookshops early in the morning to snatch up her books as soon as the stores open in a so-called open run race.On Oct.11, the next day after she won the Nobel Prize, Han’s two highly-recognized books -- The Vegetarian and Human Acts – sold 38,000 copies, respectively, at Yes24.

Her paper book sales skyrocketed by 2,240 times to 310,000 copies as of early Oct.14 since she was awarded the honorable prize on Oct.10, according to Yes24, an online bookstore.