COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1987—2024
Nobel Prize winners
from South Korea.
3 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 3 recipient awards across 3 Nobel categories.
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Winners associated with South Korea
3 total
- Charles J. Pedersen
Born in Pusan, South Korea. Recognized “for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity”.
- 1987Chemistry
- Han Kang
Born in Gwangju, South Korea. Recognized “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
- 2024Literature
- Kim Dae-jung
Born in Mokpo, South Korea. Recognized “for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular”.
- 2000Peace
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Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Chemistry
- 1
- Literature
- 1
- Peace
- 1
Award decade
- 2020s
- 1
- 2000s
- 1
- 1980s
- 1