By newsfirstusa 
STOCKHOLM — South Korean creator Han Kang, this 12 months’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, stated Friday that she used to be stunned through this hour’s martial regulation announcement in her house nation.
Han, awarded through the Nobel committee “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” spoke to journalists at a news conference in Stockholm after days of political turmoil back home.
She recalled how she studied martial law imposed in her country in 1979 for her book “Human Acts.” The hold is ready in 1980 in her start town of Gwangju following a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that left round 200 folk lifeless and masses of others injured.
She described the shock of living through another attempt at martial law, this one live-streamed in real-time, when the president announced martial law in a surprise late-night address on Tuesday. It brought back memories for many South Koreans of the country’s past military-backed dictatorships.
“Like everyone else that night, I was deeply shocked,” the 54-year-old stated via a translator. “For me to witness a similar situation unfold before my eyes in 2024 was startling.”
Han, known for her experimental and often disturbing stories that explore human traumas and violence and incorporate the brutal moments of South Korea’s modern history, is South Korea’s first writer to win the preeminent award in world literature.
President Yoon Suk Yeol sent heavily armed soldiers into Seoul’s streets after announcing martial law. But parliament forced him to lift his order within hours and the president is now facing possible impeachment.
Opposition parties are pushing for a vote on Saturday on the impeachment motion, which needs support from two-thirds of the National Assembly to advance to the Constitutional Court, which would decide whether to remove Yoon from office.
Saturday is also the day Han will deliver her Nobel lecture in Stockholm, the Swedish capital. There will be a ceremony and banquet for her and the other laureates next Tuesday, which is December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
Despite the problems in the world, Han said she is celebrating her Nobel win but celebrating “quietly.”
Talking via a translator, she stated that the order of the sector has been making her query many stuff. “And sometimes I wonder: do we have any hope left in this world?” Han said she decided that “hoping for hope is a hope.”
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Gera reported from Warsaw.