Promoting "Nobel Literature City Jangheung"...Construction of a trail for Han Seung-won and Han River.

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Author Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature is just a month away.

Jangheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, is promoting the 'Nobel Literature City' with the award of Han Kang.

The author's father, novelist Han Seung-won, is also still actively writing in his hometown of Jangheung, so it is intended to publicize that it is the root of the Nobel Prize.

Reporter Kim Bum-hwan reports.

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This is the hometown of Han Seung-won, the father of Han Kang, who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in Sweden next month.

Deukryangman, where various sea creatures live and breathe in front of the village, unfolds coolly.

Han Seung-won's novel "Azase Barrage" was also made into a film by master director Lim Kwon-taek, who has always emphasized that 90 percent of his works were inspired by the sea.

Jangheung-gun's military government slogan is 'the source of life' derived from Han Seung-won's work, and 'mother's arms' like the sea

Jangheung-gun, which has produced many writers and advocated 'Moonrim Intent', will promote 'Nobel Literature City, Jangheung' based on the award of Han Kang.

First, we buy Han Seung-won's birthplace, display the works of his father and daughter, and develop it as a literary travel course linked to Lee Chung-joon and Song Ki-sook's birthplace.

[Kim Sung / Jangheung County, Jeollanam-do] Many people visit Han Seung-won's walkway, and there are already disputes between Han Seung-won and Han Kang. We plan to make a poem by Han Kang to suit the modern sense and young people and make it a women's literary trail.

To commemorate Han River's Nobel Prize, Jangheung County is also preparing a nationwide writing contest next year.

Based on the effects of these projects, we plan to promote the World Nobel Literature Park as long as possible.

Jeollanam-do has also decided to fully support various commemorative projects, including investing 3 billion won in the immediate budget.

[Kim Young-rok / Governor of Jeollanam-do: It enhanced the dignity of our country. The depth of spiritual culture, this Nobel Prize for Literature, is very different in the world and very big, so when I heard that Korea's national prestige and the status of Korean residents have risen a lot, I felt proud for no reason.]

In Gwangju Metropolitan City, where writer Han Kang lived until the third grade of elementary school, projects to commemorate Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature are in full swing, such as promoting "The City of Reading".

I'm Kim Bum Hwan of YTN.