If you look at major bookstore sites such as Kyobo Bookstore and YES24, Han River's novels such as "The Boy Is Coming" and "The Vegetarian" are sweeping the top ranks of bestsellers.
As of 2 p.m. today, Han Kang's novels ranked 1st to 10th in the real-time rankings of Kyobo Bookstore sites, and
YES24, a representative online bookstore in
, is in a similar situation.
As orders are rapidly pushed back, most of the inventory has been exhausted, and many of them have been converted to pre-orders.
After the news of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, even if readers wanted to buy Han Kang's book, they could not buy it right away.
Since Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature, a total of 300,000 copies have been sold until yesterday afternoon, including 103,000 copies sold at Kyobo Book Center alone.
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