Nobel Prize winner Han Kang's books fly off the shelves in South Korea

A person holds the book 'Human Acts' by Han Kang, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, in a bookstore in Seoul, South Korea Oct. 10, 2024.

South Koreans flocked to bookstores Friday and crashed websites in a frenzy to snap up copies of the work of novelist Han Kang in her home country, after her unexpected win of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.