The 2025 Yonsei Nobel Week
Beyond Past and Present
— A Literature Festival Where the World Comes Together
2025 <Yonsei Nobel Week>marks the first anniversary of author Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win in Literature,
a global literary festival that opens new pathways of memory and solidarity through literature.
Under the theme “Can the Past Help the Present? - Memory and Solidarity,”
we explore in depth the timely questions and universal concerns raised by Han Kang’s literature.
Over five days, the festival presents a diverse program including literary exhibitions,
special lectures by Yonsei-affiliated writers, international writing contest and symposium, academic conference, and translation conference.
Participants from Korea and abroad will share a distinctive experience of connecting past and present,
individual and society, and local and global communities through literature.
2025 <Yonsei Nobel Week> will be
a platform that opens new avenues of memory and solidarity through literary thought and imagination.
The 1st Yonsei International Writing Contest
The “1st Yonsei International Writing Contest:
In Search of the Next Generation’s Han Kang”
is an international creative platform
where young people worldwide respond
to the question, “Can the Past Help the Present?”
International Symposium
The International Symposium
Commemorating the First Anniversary
of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Win
brings together world-renowned writers
who address universal concerns and timely questions
to explore “Can the Past Help the Present?”
