TOKYO -- When news broke that South Korean author Han Kang won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, her name may have reminded some of the Han River -- a river that bisects Seoul called Han Gang in Korean. South Korea's rapid economic growth in the 1960s was sometimes dubbed the "Miracle on the Han River."
The Han is considered as much a historical and cultural boundary as a geographic one. To the south of the river lies Gangnam, the heart of South Korea's economy with its luxury homes and upscale malls. To the north lies Gangbuk, a neighborhood that still retains many traditional elements.
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