When Chinese Shandong Taishan hosted Gwangju from South Korea in the Asian Champions League, the away team was taunted with pictures of the despised former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-Hwan. Now the Chinese football club is banning an unknown number of supporters for life.
FootballHan Kang loved the torch-bearing scouts outside the entrance, but not being "constantly filmed" throughout the entire Nobel dinner. It was probably the most uncomfortable situation I've ever experienced in my entire life, she says to TT.
EntertainmentHow can humans be so violent and at the same time stand up against overwhelming violence – these are central questions for Han Kang. But her most fundamental tone is love, she says in her Nobel lecture.
EntertainmentThis year's Nobel laureate depicts a violent world filled with beauty. Suppressed historical traumas and human fragility are themes in the South Korean author Han Kang's work.
EntertainmentInternationally, Han Kang is the most celebrated name in South Korean literature. "The White Book" is simultaneously the most personal thing she has written, she told TT when they met her at the Book Fair in Gothenburg in 2019.
EntertainmentHan Kang is awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the first South Korean author to be awarded the prize by the Swedish Academy – and one of the youngest at 53 years old. Often the prize goes to older authors, which is entirely natural. But this year, we have chosen to reward an author who is in the middle of her life's work, says Academy member Ellen Mattson.
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