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Hundreds of protesters had also gathered in front of the parliament, waving banners and calling for Yoon's impeachment. Others were seen blocking military vehicles.<\/p>\n
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Images shared by media outlets showed police and protesters clashing outside parliament, and troops trying to enter the building. \n\nYoon had said that emergency martial law was critical to protect South Korea from \"threats posed by North Korea\u2019s communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements\".\n\n\"The martial law is aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and to protect the constitutional order of freedom,\" he added.\n\nFollowing Yoon\u2019s announcement, South Korea\u2019s military proclaimed that parliament and other political gatherings that could cause \"social confusion\" would be suspended, according to the government-funded Yonhap news agency. \n\nAs well as the suspension of parliamentary activities, all media outlets and publishers were to be placed under martial law control, while the country's striking healthcare workers would be instructed to return to work within 48 hours, according to Yonhap. \n\nThousands of doctors have been striking for months over government plans to expand the number of students at medical schools.\n\nBefore the vote in parliament, the leader of Yoon's conservative People Power Party, Han Dong-hoon, called the decision to impose martial law \"wrong\" and vowed to \"stop it with the people\". Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost to Yoon in the 2022 presidential election, had described the announcement as \"illegal and unconstitutional\".\n\nSince taking office in 2022, Yoon has struggled to push his agenda through the opposition-controlled parliament. His approval rating has dipped in recent months.\n\nThe martial law declaration came after the Democratic Party railroaded a downsized budget bill and submitted impeachment motions against a state auditor and the chief prosecutor, Yonhap reported.\n\n","htmlText":"
South Korea's parliament voted late on Tuesday to block President Yoon Suk-yeol's surprised move to declare emergency martial law, which sent shockwaves through the country and sparked huge public protests outside Seoul's National Assembly building.<\/p>\n
Yoon made the declaration in a televised address earlier on Tuesday, accusing the nation\u2019s opposition, which has control of parliament, of sympathising with North Korea and paralysing the government through anti-state activity. <\/p>\n
It was the first time that martial law had been declared since the East Asian nation officially transitioned to democracy with the adoption of a new constitution in the 1980s. <\/p>\n
South Korea's opposition and the leader of Yoon's own conservative party criticised the declaration and vowed to block it. Under South Korean law, martial law can be lifted with a majority vote in parliament, where the opposition Democratic Party has the numbers.<\/p>\n
National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik submitted a resolution requesting the lifting of martial law at around 1 am Wednesday local time (5 pm Tuesday CET). All 190 lawmakers who were present, out of 300 in total, voted in favour. Images shared by media outlets showed police and protesters clashing outside parliament, and troops trying to enter the building. <\/p>\n
Yoon had said that emergency martial law was critical to protect South Korea from \"threats posed by North Korea\u2019s communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements\".<\/p>\n
\"The martial law is aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and to protect the constitutional order of freedom,\" he added.<\/p>\n
Following Yoon\u2019s announcement, South Korea\u2019s military proclaimed that parliament and other political gatherings that could cause \"social confusion\" would be suspended, according to the government-funded Yonhap news agency. <\/p>\n
As well as the suspension of parliamentary activities, all media outlets and publishers were to be placed under martial law control, while the country's striking healthcare workers would be instructed to return to work within 48 hours, according to Yonhap. <\/p>\n
Thousands of doctors have been striking for months over government plans to expand the number of students at medical schools.<\/p>\n
Before the vote in parliament, the leader of Yoon's conservative People Power Party, Han Dong-hoon, called the decision to impose martial law \"wrong\" and vowed to \"stop it with the people\". Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost to Yoon in the 2022 presidential election, had described the announcement as \"illegal and unconstitutional\".<\/p>\n
Since taking office in 2022, Yoon has struggled to push his agenda through the opposition-controlled parliament. His approval rating has dipped in recent months.<\/p>\n
The martial law declaration came after the Democratic Party railroaded a downsized budget bill and submitted impeachment motions against a state auditor and the chief prosecutor, Yonhap reported.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733233954,"updatedAt":1733255830,"publishedAt":1733235449,"firstPublishedAt":1733235449,"lastPublishedAt":1733244497,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/80\/12\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c53d05df-016e-5751-9285-8d36f04e5551-8888012.jpg","altText":"Military vehicles is escorted by police officers outside of the National Assembly in Seoul, 4 December 2024","caption":"Military vehicles is escorted by police officers outside of the National Assembly in Seoul, 4 December 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Lee 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Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> installation \u2018Breathing Earth Sphere\u2019 opened to the public last week on Docho Island, part of South Korea\u2019s largest archipelago.<\/p>\n The artist \u2013 known for his innovative explorations of nature and perception \u2013 presented the first work of the Shinan Art Island Project, which aims to connect the region\u2019s 1,000+ islands (many of which are UNESCO-designated for their ecological importance) through public art.<\/p>\n Inspired by Dochodo Island\u2019s volcanic<\/strong><\/a> terrain and rich geological history, Breathing Earth Sphere takes shape within the Dochodo National Park Garden. 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As a result, hackers were able to use inactive pages to forge identities and request password resets for the accounts of other Facebook users. Meta approved these requests without proper verification, which resulted in data breaches affecting at least 10 South Korean Facebook users, Lee said.\n\nIn September, European regulators hit Meta with over $100 million (\u20ac91 million) in fines for a 2019 security lapse in which user passwords were temporarily exposed in an unencrypted form.\n\nMeta\u2019s South Korean office said it would \u201ccarefully review\u201d the commission\u2019s decision, but didn\u2019t immediately provide more comment.\n\nIn 2022, the commission fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won (\u20ac66 million) for tracking consumers\u2019 online behaviour without their consent and using their data for targeted advertisements, in the biggest penalties ever imposed in South Korea for privacy law violations.\n\nThe commission said then that the two companies didn\u2019t clearly inform users or obtain their consent to collect data about them as they used other websites or services outside their own platforms. 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As a result, hackers were able to use inactive pages to forge identities and request password resets for the accounts of other Facebook users. Meta approved these requests without proper verification, which resulted in data breaches affecting at least 10 South Korean Facebook users, Lee said.<\/p>\n In September, European regulators hit Meta with over $100 million (\u20ac91 million) in fines for a 2019 security lapse in which user passwords were temporarily exposed in an unencrypted form.<\/p>\n Meta\u2019s South Korean office said it would \u201ccarefully review\u201d the commission\u2019s decision, but didn\u2019t immediately provide more comment.<\/p>\n In 2022, the commission fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won (\u20ac66 million) for tracking consumers\u2019 online behaviour without their consent and using their data for targeted advertisements, in the biggest penalties ever imposed in South Korea for privacy law violations.<\/p>\n The commission said then that the two companies didn\u2019t clearly inform users or obtain their consent to collect data about them as they used other websites or services outside their own platforms. It ordered the companies to provide an \u201ceasy and clear\u201d consent process to give people more control over whether to share information about what they do online.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1730821847,"updatedAt":1730827273,"publishedAt":1730822462,"firstPublishedAt":1730822462,"lastPublishedAt":1730827266,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/39\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b79e81fc-14c3-5f80-853b-4d9de938d350-8833972.jpg","altText":"FILE - The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. ","caption":"FILE - The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Michael Dwyer\/Copyright 2022 The AP. 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A B-1B is capable of carrying a large conventional weapons payload.\n\nThursday's Hwasong-19 test, North Korea's first ICBM test-firing in almost a year, showed progress in North Korea\u2019s missile program. But many experts say North Korea still has some technological issues to master to acquire functioning ICBMs that can deliver nuclear strikes on the US mainland. The experts say the Hwasong-19 shown in North Korea\u2019s state media photos and videos looked too big to be useful in a war.\n\nThe ICBM test was seen as an effort to grab American attention ahead of the US presidential election this week and respond to international condemnation of North Korea's reported dispatch of thousands of troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine, observers say.\n\n","htmlText":" The United States flew a long-range bomber in a trilateral drill with South Korea and Japan on Sunday in response to North Korea\u2019s recent test-firing of a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the US mainland, South Korea\u2019s military said.<\/p>\n North Korea on Thursday tested the newly developed Hwasong-19 ICBM, which flew higher and stayed in the air longer than any other missile it has fired. <\/p>\n North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called it \u201can appropriate military action\u201d to cope with external security threats posed by its rivals.<\/p>\n On Sunday, the US flew the B-1B bomber to train with South Korean and Japanese fighter jets near the Korean Peninsula, demonstrating the three countries\u2019 firm resolve and readiness to respond to North Korea\u2019s advancing nuclear and missile programs, South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.<\/p>\n The trilateral aerial training was the second by South Korea, the US and Japan this year, the statement said.<\/p>\n The US often responds to major North Korean missile tests with temporary deployments of some of its powerful military assets such as long-range bombers, aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered submarines to and near the Korean Peninsula. <\/p>\n North Korea typically responds angrily to such US actions, calling them part of a US-led plot to invade the North and performing additional weapons tests.<\/p>\n The US has flown the B-1B bomber over or near the Korean Peninsula four times this year, according to South Korea\u2019s military. A B-1B is capable of carrying a large conventional weapons payload.<\/p>\n Thursday's Hwasong-19 test, North Korea's first ICBM test-firing in almost a year, showed progress in North Korea\u2019s missile program. But many experts say North Korea still has some technological issues to master to acquire functioning ICBMs that can deliver nuclear strikes on the US mainland. The experts say the Hwasong-19 shown in North Korea\u2019s state media photos and videos looked too big to be useful in a war.<\/p>\n The ICBM test was seen as an effort to grab American attention ahead of the US presidential election this week and respond to international condemnation of North Korea's reported dispatch of thousands of troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine, observers say.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1730620688,"updatedAt":1731057120,"publishedAt":1730622096,"firstPublishedAt":1730622096,"lastPublishedAt":1731057110,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/92\/22\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9ed48bde-b601-503d-9166-807900707a4c-8829222.jpg","altText":"B-1B Lancer","caption":"B-1B 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Korean balloon has fallen on the presidential compound in central Seoul on Thursday for the second time, raising concerns about the vulnerability of key South Korean sites.\n\nAccording to South Korea's presidential security service, no dangerous items were found in the waste that was released when one of the North Korean balloons burst over the presidential compound on Thursday morning.\n\nThe incident comes after the rival Koreas ramped up threats and rhetoric against each other, with the north claiming that the south flew drones over Pyongyang earlier this month to scatter propaganda leaflets.\n\nNorth Korea has sent thousands of balloons carrying assorted plastic and paper waste but no hazardous materials into South Korean airspace since late May, a return to Cold War-era psychological tactics. The trash that fell on the South Korean presidential compound in July also contained no dangerous items.\n\nIt wasn't immediately known whether South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was at the compound when the latest balloon dropped its payload. He met with visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda as planned later the same day.\n\nSouth Korean media have reported that on Thursday, North Korean leaflets criticising Yoon and his wife Kim Keon-hee were found in the Yongsan district of Seoul, where Yoon's presidential office is located.\n\nOutlets published photos of some of leaflets describing the president's wife as a latter-day Marie Antoinette.\n\nLocal media said it was the first time North Korean leaflets have been found in South Korea since the balloon campaign began some five months ago.\n\nThe South Korean presidential security service has yet to confirm the reports specifically, but South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff have urged North Korea to stop dropping \"crude leaflets\" slandering the president \u2014 and have warned that Pyongyang will be entirely responsible for any consequences.\n\nHowever, experts say North Korea is unlikely to possess the sophisticated technology that would be needed to drop balloons on specific targets.\n\n\"Whether the balloons have GPS or not, it's all about launching them in large numbers and hitting the right altitude based on wind direction and speed, so that they can ride those winds to travel,\" said Lee Choon-geun, an honorary research fellow at South Korea's Science and Technology Policy Institute.\n\n\"While some media are saying the accuracy of the balloons has improved, that improved accuracy isn't because they equipped them with some sort of guidance system, but rather because it's the season when winds blow southward.\"\n\nTit-for-tat reprisals\n\nNorth Korea has accused South Korea of using drones to drop propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang three times in the last month and has threatened reprisals if it happens again.\n\nSeoul has refused to confirm whether the accusation is grounded in fact, instead warning that North Korea would face the end of its regime if the safety of South Korean citizens is threatened.\n\nNorth Korea said its balloon activities were retaliation against the actions of South Korean activists who launched anti-Kim leaflets toward Pyongyang attached to balloons of their own.\n\nSouth Korea has responded to the trash balloons by restarting propaganda broadcasts from loudspeakers positioned at border areas \u2014 prompting North Korea to turn its own frontline loudspeakers back on.\n\nKim Jong-un has lately been increasing the pace of his weapons tests, and has greatly expanded his country's overt military cooperation with Russia.\n\nUS and South Korean officials said on Wednesday that some 3,000 North Korean troops are now training in several locations in Russia. According to South Korea, Pyongyang eventually aims to send a total of 10,000 troops to Russia to support the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which has badly depleted Russia's forces.\n\nSouth Korea is concerned that Russia may reward North Korea for its contribution with sophisticated technological contributions to its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, both of which are targeted at South Korea and the US.\n\n","htmlText":" Trash carried by a North Korean balloon has fallen on the presidential compound in central Seoul on Thursday for the second time, raising concerns about the vulnerability of key South Korean sites.<\/p>\n According to South Korea's presidential security service, no dangerous items were found in the waste that was released when one of the North Korean balloons burst over the presidential compound on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n The incident comes after the rival Koreas ramped up threats and rhetoric against each other, with the north claiming that the south flew drones over Pyongyang earlier this month to scatter propaganda leaflets.<\/p>\n North Korea has sent thousands of balloons carrying assorted plastic and paper waste but no hazardous materials into South Korean airspace since late May, a return to Cold War-era psychological tactics. The trash that fell on the South Korean presidential compound in July also contained no dangerous items.<\/p>\n It wasn't immediately known whether South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was at the compound when the latest balloon dropped its payload. He met with visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda as planned later the same day.<\/p>\n South Korean media have reported that on Thursday, North Korean leaflets criticising Yoon and his wife Kim Keon-hee were found in the Yongsan district of Seoul, where Yoon's presidential office is located.<\/p>\n Outlets published photos of some of leaflets describing the president's wife as a latter-day Marie Antoinette.<\/p>\n Local media said it was the first time North Korean leaflets have been found in South Korea since the balloon campaign began some five months ago.<\/p>\n The South Korean presidential security service has yet to confirm the reports specifically, but South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff have urged North Korea to stop dropping \"crude leaflets\" slandering the president \u2014 and have warned that Pyongyang will be entirely responsible for any consequences.<\/p>\n However, experts say North Korea is unlikely to possess the sophisticated technology that would be needed to drop balloons on specific targets.<\/p>\n \"Whether the balloons have GPS or not, it's all about launching them in large numbers and hitting the right altitude based on wind direction and speed, so that they can ride those winds to travel,\" said Lee Choon-geun, an honorary research fellow at South Korea's Science and Technology Policy Institute.<\/p>\n \"While some media are saying the accuracy of the balloons has improved, that improved accuracy isn't because they equipped them with some sort of guidance system, but rather because it's the season when winds blow southward.\"<\/p>\n North Korea has accused South Korea of using drones to drop propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang three times in the last month and has threatened reprisals if it happens again.<\/p>\n Seoul has refused to confirm whether the accusation is grounded in fact, instead warning that North Korea would face the end of its regime if the safety of South Korean citizens is threatened.<\/p>\n North Korea said its balloon activities were retaliation against the actions of South Korean activists who launched anti-Kim leaflets toward Pyongyang attached to balloons of their own.<\/p>\n South Korea has responded to the trash balloons by restarting propaganda broadcasts from loudspeakers positioned at border areas \u2014 prompting North Korea to turn its own frontline loudspeakers back on.<\/p>\n Kim Jong-un has lately been increasing the pace of his weapons tests, and has greatly expanded his country's overt military cooperation with Russia.<\/p>\n US and South Korean officials said on Wednesday that some 3,000 North Korean troops are now training in several locations in Russia. 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But Seoul hasn't directly provided Ukraine with arms, citing a long-standing policy of not supplying weapons to countries actively engaged in conflict.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1729746349,"updatedAt":1729758540,"publishedAt":1729753275,"firstPublishedAt":1729753275,"lastPublishedAt":1729758540,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/81\/11\/06\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e2dc3e66-cbdf-52be-992d-73e38cdf14c9-8811106.jpg","altText":"South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Poland's President Andrzej Duda, right, walk with honour guards during a ceremony at the Presidential Office in Seoul.","caption":"South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Poland's President Andrzej Duda, right, walk with honour guards during a ceremony at the Presidential Office in Seoul.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1902,"height":1069}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3168,"urlSafeValue":"de-ruiter","title":"Emma De Ruiter","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":230,"slug":"poland","urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","titleRaw":"Poland"},{"id":7828,"slug":"south-korea","urlSafeValue":"south-korea","title":"South Korea","titleRaw":"South Korea"},{"id":366,"slug":"north-korea","urlSafeValue":"north-korea","title":"North Korea","titleRaw":"North Korea"},{"id":26698,"slug":"russia-ukraine-invasion","urlSafeValue":"russia-ukraine-invasion","title":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine","titleRaw":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine"},{"id":19956,"slug":"andrzej-duda","urlSafeValue":"andrzej-duda","title":"Andrzej Duda","titleRaw":"Andrzej Duda"},{"id":26940,"slug":"yoon-suk-yeol","urlSafeValue":"yoon-suk-yeol","title":"Yoon Suk-yeol","titleRaw":"Yoon Suk-yeol"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2658498},{"id":2693796}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"Mr3eO5_01XY","dailymotionId":"x97y4r4"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/24\/10\/24\/en\/241024_NWSU_56837184_56837210_35520_080257_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":35520,"filesizeBytes":4763491,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/24\/10\/24\/en\/241024_NWSU_56837184_56837210_35520_080257_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":35520,"filesizeBytes":6849891,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":12,"urlSafeValue":"asia","title":"Asia"},"country":{"id":258,"urlSafeValue":"south-korea","title":"South Korea","url":"\/news\/asia\/south-korea"},"town":{"id":428,"urlSafeValue":"seoul-south-korea","title":"Seoul, South Korea"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","84201001","84202001"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","shopping","shopping_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2024\/10\/24\/polish-president-meets-south-korean-counterpart-amid-rising-threats-from-north-korea","lastModified":1729758540},{"id":2651244,"cid":8782394,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241010_C2SU_56727181","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Culture - Han Kang: a guide to the Nobel Prize winning author","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Han Kang: A guide to the Nobel Prize winning author","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Han Kang: A guide to the Nobel Prize winning author","titleListing2":"Han Kang: A guide to the Nobel Prize winning author","leadin":"As South Korean author Han Kang becomes the 18th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, here's a guide to her work.","summary":"As South Korean author Han Kang becomes the 18th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, here's a guide to her work.","keySentence":"","url":"han-kang-a-guide-to-the-nobel-prize-winning-author","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/10\/10\/han-kang-a-guide-to-the-nobel-prize-winning-author","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"South Korean writer Han Kang has been announced as the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, with the Swedish Academy praising \"her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.\u201d \n\nIt\u2019s a historic win as Han, 53, becomes the first Asian woman to win the prize and is only the second Korean winner. \n\nHan was born in Gwangju in 1970 and moved to the capital Seoul as a child. She studied Korean Literature at Yonsei University and began publishing poems and short stories in the 90s. Her first novel was \"A Love of Yeosu\" was published in 1995. \n\nIn South Korea, Han has been a long celebrated member of the literary scene, winning the Korean Fiction Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award Grand Prize, the Dong-in Literary Award, and the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts among many others. \n\nInternationally, she has also won the International Booker Prize, the Premio Malaparte, the San Clemente Literary Prize, the Prix M\u00e9dicis \u00e9tranger and was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer in 2023.\n\nFor those unacquainted with the South Korean author, here\u2019s our guide to Han Kang\u2019s work. \n\nThe famous one \n\nHan won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for a novel she\u2019d written over a decade earlier. \"The Vegetarian\" was first published in South Korea in 2007 based on her 1997 short story \"The Fruit of My Woman.\" Its publication in English marked the first of a fruitful collaboration with translator Deborah Smith \u2013 who shares the International Booker Prize win \u2013 and Han\u2019s entry into the international literary realm. \n\n\"The Vegetarian\" is a unique tale of Yeong-hye, a woman who disrupts the social milieu of middle-class Seoul society when she starts refusing to eat meat. The tension that arises over Yeong-hye\u2019s refusal to eat meat leads to similar refusals of societal mores as her behaviour is increasingly criticised as erratic and insane. \n\nWhat\u2019s so striking about \"The Vegetarian\" is how it puts the simple act of a woman refusing to eat meat as the bouncing board for an entire family to fall apart. Han\u2019s depiction of Korean domestic life as so fragile, it\u2019s thanks to her \u2013 and Deborah Smith\u2019s \u2013 masterful prose that it balances the decorum and fury with ease. \n\nThe new one \n\nWhat you consider Han\u2019s latest novel is somewhat dependent on a few factors: whether you can read Korean and whether you care about publishing order of the original vs the translation. If you do read Korean, Han\u2019s 2021 novel \"Don\u2019t Say Goodbye\" is her most recent and will be released in English translation by Emily Yae Won and Paige Aniyah Morris sometime next year.\n\nBefore that, Han\u2019s previous novel was \"White\", released in 2016 in Korea and translated by Smith into English for a 2017 publication as \"The White Book\". However, to most international audiences, Han\u2019s newest novel is \"Greek Lessons\". \n\nPublished last year, \"Greek Lessons\" was originally released in 2011 in Korea as \"Greek Time\". Translated by Smith and Yae Won, it follows a similar path to \"The Vegetarian\" where it takes a disempowered woman through an existential journey. \n\nThis time, it\u2019s a mute woman who takes a class in Ancient Greek as an attempt to reclaim her ability over language. While the woman explores her loss of speech through the lens of her other many personal losses, she grows closer to the teacher who has lost his sight and connection to family. Although small in size, where \"Greek Lessons\" expands on from \"The Vegetarian\" is its dissection of humanity through the language we use. \n\nWhere to go next?\n\nAlthough Han has a large bibliography, the number of English translations are relatively sparse. If her winning the Nobel Prize reflects the trend seen with French writer Annie Ernaux two years ago, many more of her novels will soon get the translations they deserve. \n\nIn the interim, the two key texts for non-Korean speakers to get their teeth into are \"The White Book\" and \"Human Acts\". Both are period novels, set around important historic moments. \n\n\"The White Book\" takes readers to Europe through Han\u2019s literary lens. Set after the end of World War II in Poland, it is an elongated meditation on grief through 65 different white objects. Anyone who liked Maggie Nelson\u2019s \"Bluets\" will know how powerful a literary mechanism this can be. Released in English in 2017, it was nominated for the next year\u2019s International Booker Prize.\n\n\"Human Acts\" takes place amongst the Gwangju Uprising, known in Korea as May 18, the student protests that took place in 1980 in response to the coup the day prior that installed a military dictatorship over South Korea. The uprising was violently stopped by the military with US support. Han has said that \"Human Acts\" is her most representative work and for non-Korean readers, offers an insight into a crucial moment in the country\u2019s history. \n\n","htmlText":" South Korean writer Han Kang has been announced as the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate<\/strong><\/a> in Literature, with the Swedish Academy praising \"her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.\u201d <\/p>\n It\u2019s a historic win as Han, 53, becomes the first Asian woman to win the prize and is only the second Korean winner. <\/p>\n Han was born in Gwangju in 1970 and moved to the capital Seoul as a child. She studied Korean Literature at Yonsei University and began publishing poems and short stories in the 90s. Her first novel was \"A Love of Yeosu\" was published in 1995. <\/p>\n In South Korea, Han has been a long celebrated member of the literary scene, winning the Korean Fiction Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award Grand Prize, the Dong-in Literary Award, and the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts among many others. <\/p>\n Internationally, she has also won the International Booker Prize<\/strong><\/a>, the Premio Malaparte, the San Clemente Literary Prize, the Prix M\u00e9dicis \u00e9tranger and was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer in 2023.<\/p>\n For those unacquainted with the South Korean author, here\u2019s our guide<\/strong><\/a> to Han Kang\u2019s work. <\/p>\n Han won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for a novel she\u2019d written over a decade earlier. \"The Vegetarian\" was first published in South Korea in 2007 based on her 1997 short story \"The Fruit of My Woman.\" Its publication in English marked the first of a fruitful collaboration with translator Deborah Smith \u2013 who shares the International Booker Prize win \u2013 and Han\u2019s entry into the international literary realm. <\/p>\n \"The Vegetarian\" is a unique tale of Yeong-hye, a woman who disrupts the social milieu of middle-class Seoul society when she starts refusing to eat meat. The tension that arises over Yeong-hye\u2019s refusal to eat meat leads to similar refusals of societal mores as her behaviour is increasingly criticised as erratic and insane. <\/p>\n What\u2019s so striking about \"The Vegetarian\" is how it puts the simple act of a woman refusing to eat meat as the bouncing board for an entire family to fall apart. Han\u2019s depiction of Korean domestic life as so fragile, it\u2019s thanks to her \u2013 and Deborah Smith\u2019s \u2013 masterful prose that it balances the decorum and fury with ease. <\/p>\n What you consider Han\u2019s latest novel is somewhat dependent on a few factors: whether you can read Korean and whether you care about publishing order of the original vs the translation. If you do read Korean, Han\u2019s 2021 novel \"Don\u2019t Say Goodbye\" is her most recent and will be released in English translation by Emily Yae Won and Paige Aniyah Morris sometime next year.<\/p>\n Before that, Han\u2019s previous novel was \"White\", released in 2016 in Korea and translated by Smith into English for a 2017 publication as \"The White Book\". However, to most international audiences, Han\u2019s newest novel is \"Greek Lessons\". <\/p>\n Published last year, \"Greek Lessons\" was originally released in 2011 in Korea as \"Greek Time\". Translated by Smith and Yae Won, it follows a similar path to \"The Vegetarian\" where it takes a disempowered woman through an existential journey. <\/p>\n This time, it\u2019s a mute woman who takes a class in Ancient Greek as an attempt to reclaim her ability over language. While the woman explores her loss of speech through the lens of her other many personal losses, she grows closer to the teacher who has lost his sight and connection to family. Although small in size, where \"Greek Lessons\" expands on from \"The Vegetarian\" is its dissection of humanity through the language we use. <\/p>\n Although Han has a large bibliography, the number of English translations are relatively sparse. If her winning the Nobel Prize reflects the trend seen with French writer Annie Ernaux two years ago, many more of her novels will soon get the translations they deserve. <\/p>\n In the interim, the two key texts for non-Korean speakers to get their teeth into are \"The White Book\" and \"Human Acts\". Both are period novels, set around important historic moments. <\/p>\n \"The White Book\" takes readers to Europe through Han\u2019s literary lens. Set after the end of World War II in Poland, it is an elongated meditation on grief through 65 different white objects. 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She becomes only the 18th woman to win the prize.","keySentence":"","url":"south-korean-author-han-kang-becomes-only-18th-woman-to-win-nobel-prize-in-literature","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/10\/10\/south-korean-author-han-kang-becomes-only-18th-woman-to-win-nobel-prize-in-literature","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"After three days of Nobel prizes honouring work in the sciences, the Literature award has been announced by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy.\n\nSouth Korean author Han Kang\u00a0has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature \u201cfor her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.\u201d\n\nAccording to the Academy, her oeuvre \"confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.\"\n\nKang, 53, is the daughter of the novelist Hang Seung-won and previously won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for \"The Vegetarian\", a novel about a woman's descent into mental illness and neglect from her family. It was the first of her books to be published in English.\n\nOther notable works include 2011\u2019s \u201cGreek Lessons\u201d, 2016\u2019s \u201cThe White Book\u201d and 2021\u2019s \u201cWe Do Not Part.\u201d\n\nThe author becomes only the 18th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nShe succeeds Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, with Anders Olsson,\u00a0Chairman of the Nobel Committee, stating that Fosse \"combines strong local ties, both linguistic and geographic, with modernist artistic techniques.\u201d\u00a0\n\nThe Literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated, with just now 18\u00a0women among its 119 laureates.\n\nThe last woman to win was France's Annie Ernaux in 2022.\n\nSix days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the Medicine prize. Two founding fathers of machine learning \u2014 John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton \u2014 won the Physics prize\u00a0on Tuesday. Yesterday, three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.\n\nThe prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (\u20ac967,000)\u00a0from a bequest left by the award\u2019s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel\u2019s death.\n\nThe Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the Economics award on 14 October.\n\n","htmlText":" After three days of Nobel prizes honouring work in the sciences, the Literature award has been announced by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy.<\/p>\n South Korean author Han Kang\u00a0has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature \u201cfor her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the Academy, her oeuvre \"confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.\"<\/p>\n Kang, 53, is the daughter of the novelist Hang Seung-won and previously won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for \"The Vegetarian\", a novel about a woman's descent into mental illness and neglect from her family. It was the first of her books to be published in English.<\/p>\n Other notable works include 2011\u2019s \u201cGreek Lessons\u201d, 2016\u2019s \u201cThe White Book\u201d and 2021\u2019s \u201cWe Do Not Part.\u201d<\/p>\n The author becomes only the 18th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n She succeeds Norwegian writer Jon Fosse<\/strong><\/a>, who received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, with Anders Olsson,\u00a0Chairman of the Nobel Committee, stating that Fosse \"combines strong local ties, both linguistic and geographic, with modernist artistic techniques.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The Literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated<\/strong><\/a>, with just now 18\u00a0women among its 119 laureates.<\/p>\n The last woman to win was France's Annie Ernaux<\/strong><\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the Medicine prize<\/strong><\/a>. Two founding fathers of machine learning \u2014 John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton \u2014 won the Physics prize<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. Yesterday, three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (\u20ac967,000)\u00a0from a bequest left by the award\u2019s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel\u2019s death.<\/p>\n The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the Economics award on 14 October.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1728547175,"updatedAt":1728569825,"publishedAt":1728558688,"firstPublishedAt":1728558688,"lastPublishedAt":1728565662,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/78\/15\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_471c83c2-ad22-5f9c-bf0b-7d57a0b0a4e1-8781596.jpg","altText":"The 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang","caption":"The 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Lee 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Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to destroy South Korea with his nuclear weapons, if provoked.\n\nMany foreign experts say North Korea eventually hopes to use an expanded nuclear arsenal as leverage to win outside concessions like sanctions relief, after a new U.S. president is elected. They say Kim likely thinks a win by Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom he engaged in high-stakes nuclear diplomacy in 2018-19, would increase his chances to get what he wants more than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. \n\nDuring campaigns, Trump boasted about his personal ties with Kim, but Harris has said she won\u2019t \u201ccozy up to tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong Un who are rooting for Trump.\u201d\n\nThe Sept. 13 disclosure of the nuclear site showed Kim\u2019s defiance of U.S.-led efforts to eliminate his advancing nuclear programme. It was North Korea\u2019s first unveiling of a facility to produce weapons-grade uranium since the country showed one at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex to visiting American scholars led by nuclear physicist Siegfried Hecker in 2010. Hecker said the centrifuge hall shown in the recent North Korean photos was not the same one that he saw in 2010.\n\nYoon didn\u2019t elaborate whether South Korea has detected any suspicious activities in North Korea that indicate its preparations for nuclear and ICBM tests. He said South Korea is closely monitoring North Korea\u2019s movements through the South Korea-U.S. combined intelligence and surveillance assets.\n\nNorth Korea has conducted six underground nuclear tests since 2006, and numerous ICBM test-launches in recent years. Additional tests are likely meant to further hone its nuclear and missile capabilities. Many observers assess North Korea has yet to possess functioning nuclear missiles that can reach the U.S. mainland, though it likely has ones that can strike all of South Korea and Japan.\n\nSince his inauguration in 2022, Yoon, a conservative, has made a stronger military alliance with the United States the centre of his foreign policy to cope with North Korea's evolving nuclear threats. He\u2019s also taken a major step toward moving beyond historical disputes with Japan to beef up a trilateral Seoul-Washington-Tokyo security partnership. Such moves have enraged North Korea, which has called Yoon \u201ca traitor\u201d and ignored his calls for dialogue. \n\nThere are some potential worries about the South Korea-U.S. alliance if Trump returns to the White House. He had previously asked South Korea to drastically increase its share for the cost of the U.S. military deployment on its soil. Some experts say Trump's possible push for a new round of negotiation with Kim could complicate Yoon's approach on North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nBut Yoon said that he's confident that the \u201cironclad\u201d South Korea-U.S. alliance will continue to advance steadily regardless of the outcome of the U.S. election.\n\n\u201cThere is a firm bipartisan support for the ROK-U.S. alliance in the United States,\u201d Yoon said. \u201cNumerous leading U.S. Democrats and Republicans have publicly stated their staunch support for the alliance and are continuously visiting Korea for consultations to enhance the bilateral relations.\u201d\n\nThe ROK stands for the Republic of Korea, South Korea's formal name. \n\nYoon said he believes North Korea's nuclear threats against South Korea are aimed at fomenting internal divisions in South Korea and tightening its domestic control with heightened military tensions on the Korean Peninsula.\n\n\u201cThe North Korean regime\u2019s past claim that its nuclear development was never intended to target the Republic of Korea, since we are one nation, has been debunked,\u201d Yoon said.\n\n","htmlText":" President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Saturday that North Korea\u2019s recent disclosure of a nuclear facility was most likely an attempt to grab the attention of Washington in the run up to the election on November 5th.<\/p>\n \u201cNorth Korea seems to have recently disclosed its nuclear facility in order to draw attention from the United States and the international community in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, and it is likely that North Korea will carry out additional provocations such as nuclear tests and ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) launches,\u201d Yoon said.<\/p>\n Concerns about North Korea have grown in recent weeks, with the country unveiling a secretive uranium-enrichment facility, vowing to build more nuclear weapons and continuing its provocative missile tests. Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to destroy South Korea with his nuclear weapons, if provoked.<\/p>\n Many foreign experts say North Korea eventually hopes to use an expanded nuclear arsenal as leverage to win outside concessions like sanctions relief, after a new U.S. president is elected. They say Kim likely thinks a win by Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom he engaged in high-stakes nuclear diplomacy in 2018-19, would increase his chances to get what he wants more than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. <\/p>\n During campaigns, Trump boasted about his personal ties with Kim, but Harris has said she won\u2019t \u201ccozy up to tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong Un who are rooting for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n The Sept. 13 disclosure of the nuclear site showed Kim\u2019s defiance of U.S.-led efforts to eliminate his advancing nuclear programme. It was North Korea\u2019s first unveiling of a facility to produce weapons-grade uranium since the country showed one at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex to visiting American scholars led by nuclear physicist Siegfried Hecker in 2010. Hecker said the centrifuge hall shown in the recent North Korean photos was not the same one that he saw in 2010.<\/p>\n Yoon didn\u2019t elaborate whether South Korea has detected any suspicious activities in North Korea that indicate its preparations for nuclear and ICBM tests. He said South Korea is closely monitoring North Korea\u2019s movements through the South Korea-U.S. combined intelligence and surveillance assets.<\/p>\n North Korea has conducted six underground nuclear tests since 2006, and numerous ICBM test-launches in recent years. Additional tests are likely meant to further hone its nuclear and missile capabilities. Many observers assess North Korea has yet to possess functioning nuclear missiles that can reach the U.S. mainland, though it likely has ones that can strike all of South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n Since his inauguration in 2022, Yoon, a conservative, has made a stronger military alliance with the United States the centre of his foreign policy to cope with North Korea's evolving nuclear threats. He\u2019s also taken a major step toward moving beyond historical disputes with Japan to beef up a trilateral Seoul-Washington-Tokyo security partnership. Such moves have enraged North Korea, which has called Yoon \u201ca traitor\u201d and ignored his calls for dialogue. <\/p>\n There are some potential worries about the South Korea-U.S. alliance if Trump returns to the White House. He had previously asked South Korea to drastically increase its share for the cost of the U.S. military deployment on its soil. 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for South Korean climate activists as government ordered to improve carbon cutting plans","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"South Koreans win legal case against government in Asian first","titleListing2":"Court orders South Korea to specify plans to cut carbon emissions through 2049","leadin":"It is the first ever legal case in East Asia challenging national climate policies so it could set a precedent.","summary":"It is the first ever legal case in East Asia challenging national climate policies so it could set a precedent.","keySentence":"","url":"victory-for-south-korean-climate-activists-as-government-ordered-to-improve-carbon-cutting","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/29\/victory-for-south-korean-climate-activists-as-government-ordered-to-improve-carbon-cutting","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"South Korea\u2019s government has been told they must be more specific in how they will meet their 2049 climate goals.\n\nThe ruling comes off the back of four climate 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South Korean government didn\u2019t immediately comment to the ruling.\n\nWhy did South Koreans sue their government over climate change?\n\nThe court, which weighs the constitutionality of laws, issued the assessment while ruling on four climate cases raised by 254 plaintiffs, including many young people who were children or teenagers when they began filing the complaints against the government and lawmakers in 2020.\n\nThey argued that South Korea\u2019s current goal of cutting carbon emissions by 35 per cent from 2018 levels by 2030 is inadequate to manage the impact of climate change and that such objectives weren\u2019t backed by sufficient implementation plans.\n\nThey also pointed out that the country has yet to establish plans to reduce carbon emissions after 2031, despite its outstanding goals of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. \n\nThe plaintiffs claimed that South Korea\u2019s allegedly lax climate policies violate their human rights by leaving them vulnerable to future deteriorations in the environment and climate-related harm.\n\nWhat impact could the case have in South Korea and beyond?\n\nSpeaking at the time the latest case was filed, Sejong Youn, a legal counsel for the case in Seoul told \u2018Nature\u2019 journal:\n\n\u201cIf we have a favourable precedent in South Korea, I think that will really be a trigger in spreading this trend,\u201d \n\n\u201cIt will send a message: all countries need to take action in order to tackle this global crisis, and there are no exceptions,\u201d he said.\n\nLitigation tends to be seen as a last resort in East Asian countries. But researchers say a successful outcome will embolden others in the region to act.\n\n\u201cEven if you lose this time, you can lose beautifully in the sense that you provoked social awareness,\u201d Dr Zhu told the journal. \u201cThe very fact that this case went to the constitutional court - that is already a certain sense of success.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":" South Korea\u2019s government has been told they must be more specific in how they will meet their 2049 climate goals.<\/p>\n The ruling comes off the back of four climate cases raised by 254 plaintiffs, one of whom was an unborn baby when the case was filed.<\/p>\n It represents a partial victory for climate campaigners who say the country\u2019s failure to cut emissions faster is a violation of their human rights.<\/p>\n On Thursday, South Korea\u2019s Constitutional Court ordered the government to back its climate goals with more concrete plans for action between now and 2049. <\/p>\n The court did not require South Korea\u2019s government to set up a more ambitious 2030 target under its carbon neutrality act and also rejected the plaintiffs\u2019 calls for more specific plans to ensure implementation, saying that they failed to demonstrate that the policy was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n However, the court did uphold the plaintiffs\u2019 argument that the country needed to establish plans for cutting emissions<\/strong><\/a> between 2031 and 2049 and ordered the government to modify its carbon neutrality law by 28 February 2026, to include such plans.<\/p>\n The South Korean government didn\u2019t immediately comment to the ruling.<\/p>\n\n
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