Novelist
Han Kang
South Korean novelist of The Vegetarian and Human Acts, and the first Asian woman awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
- Born
- 1970-11-27, Gwangju, South KoreaA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1970-11-27, Gwangju, South Korea · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Seoulthe zone used then
Asia/SeoulThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sagittarius | 4°27′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 13°03′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 21°06′ | Direct |
| Venus | Scorpio | 10°05′ | Retrograde |
| Mars | Libra | 23°55′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 20°23′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Taurus | 17°55′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Libra | 12°20′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 0°45′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Virgo | 29°20′ | Direct |
Han Kang is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Han Kang was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.