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peace and economic science prizes are one the ones that can
beaffectedbytheflowofworldpolitics.
GuestReporter
Then, what is the problem with the nominee selection
veryOctoberKoreansarewaitingtoheargreatnews.
process that is so controversial? Although, the process itself
We are waiting for someone to assume the great
doesn’t have a flaw; but the decisions of the Committee are
legacy of the former President Kim Dae-Joong. He
causing the controversies. The Laureate selection processes
was the first Korean to win a Nobel Prize and we hope for
for the prizes are all slightly different from each prize, but
anotherprizewinner.Thepoet,KohEunhasbeenconsidered
basic structure is the same. In September, the year before
long time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature during
the ceremony, the Nobel Committee send out confidential
recent years. Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former President
forms to professors, members of the national assemblies and
Kim,thepossibilityofreceivinganotherNobelPrize,andalso
governments, and the leaders of international organizations.
the confirmed discovery of the Higgs Particle, also known as
The following February is the deadline for the completed
the‘godparticle,’whichledtotheNobelPrizeinPhysics,are
nomination forms. From these nominations, the Committees
thereasonswhyKoreans’interestshigherthanusual.
chooseabout200preliminarycandidatesforeachprize.Until
Starting in 1901, 862 Laureates or prize winners and 24
thefinalselectionprocessinSeptember,theNobelCommittee
organizations have been awarded prizes over the 112 years
spends several months consulting experts worldwide. The
of the organization’s life. For the last two years in a row,
members of the Committee, professors, experts, and the
the Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize to the
nominators of the final candidate gather together for a series
organizations rather than individuals, including this year’s
ofmeetingtodecidethemostidealandappropriateLaureates
PeacePrizeLaureates,theOrganizationfortheProhibitionof
for the Nobel Prize. Finally, in October, the Committee will
Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This newly settled convention
choose the actual Laureates through a vote. After the vote,
is controversial and once again problems of selecting an
the names of the Laureates are announced and as you might
appropriate candidate for the Nobel Prize have arisen since
haveheardonthenews,fiveoftheLaureateswereannounced
the 2009 Peace Prize. In 2009, current President Barack
overthepastfewweeks.TheawardceremonyisheldinDec.
Obama of the United States of America was awarded for the
10 and five prizes, excluding the Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize and even The New York Times called
PeacePrize,ceremonywilltakeplacein
it a “stunning surprise.” People of the world worry that the
Stockholm, Sweden. The ceremony for
Committee has political motivations and have started to
theNobelPeacePrizeisheldinNorway,
identify problems with the nominee selection process. What
Oslo.
they are saying is that the literature, physics, physiology or
As mentioned above, the process itself
medicine,andchemistryprizesremainpoliticallyneutral,but
doesn’thavemanyflaws,butcontroversy
OPCW
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