The World’s Highest Award, Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have shown outstanding achievements in six different areas.
The six areas of the Nobel Prize are Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
The awards are named after Alfred Nobel.
He was a rich inventor from Sweden.
After his death, he wanted his money to be spent on prizes.
The prizes have to go to people who did good things to help humankind.
The first Nobel Prize was given in 1901.
Every year since then the ceremony has been held on December 10th.
South Korea has two Nobel Prize winners.
President Kim Dae-jung received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.
On October 10th of this year, Korean author Han Kang was selected as the prestigious award, the Nobel Prize in Literature.
She is a writer of novels and poetry. Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature is a great personal honor.
