List of Korean Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize

This is a list of Nobel laureates who are either of Korean descent or were born in Korea.

Laureates

Korean citizens

The following are the Nobel laureates who were Korean citizens at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year	Laureate		Category	Life	Rationale	Place of Birth
2000		Kim Dae-jung	Peace	1925–2009	"for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular "[1]	Mokpo, Korea (now in South Kore)

Non-Korean Laureates born in Korea

The laureates below were born in Korea but are not Korean.

Year	Name	Field	Year of birth	Place of birth	Affiliation at the time of the award
1987	Charles J. Pedersen	Chemistry	1904	Busan, Korea (now South Korea)	Du Pont,  United States[2]

Future candidates

• Ryoo Ryong - Chemistry, " for design of functional mesoporous materials", Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates in 2014^[3]
• Charles Lee - Physiology or Medicine, " for their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases ", Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates in 2014^[3]
• Ko Un - Literature,^[4]

Past nominee

Nomination for Nobel Prize in the past disclosed by Nobel Foundation.

• 1938 Bun-ichi Hasama (挟間 文一) Professor of pharmacology, Keijo University nominated by Albrecht Julius Theodor Bethe Professor of physiology, University of Frankfurt ^[5]

See also

• List of Nobel laureates
• List of Nobel laureates by country
• List of Asian Nobel laureates

References

1. "Kim Dae-jung - Facts". Nobel Foundation.
2. "Charles J. Pedersen - Facts". Nobel Foundation.
3. "2014 Predictions". SCIENCEWATCH, Thomson Reuters.
4. "Hopes high for Ko Un's chance for Nobel prize". The Korea Herald. October 7, 2010.
5. "Nomination Database". Nobelprize.org.