South Korea has ”0” Nobel Prize candidates, even though Japan and China have ”winners” - Korean media

"Japan and even China have winners, so why Korea?" The October Nobel Prize season has come around again. The Nobel Committee will be awarding the first prize in Physiology or Medicine on the 7th, followed by the Nobel Prize in Medicine on the 8th.
The Nobel Prize winners for science will be announced on Tuesday, including the Physics Prize on Tuesday and the Chemistry Prize on the 9th. However, it is expected that South Korea will not have a Nobel Prize winner this year. There is not a single South Korean candidate.
This is because it has not been widely reported. On the other hand, 25 Japanese people and three Chinese people have produced science laureates to date. Japan is particularly known for having the third highest number of Nobel Prize laureates in the world, after the United States and the United Kingdom.
Experts say the secret to Japan's success in winning the Nobel Prize in basic science is "the long-term investment in basic science that has enabled Japan to win the Nobel Prize in basic science."
"The Nobel Prize is a prize that naturally follows the accumulation of world-class research results," said a source in the scientific community.
"If you want to receive the Nobel Prize in Science, you have to discover new knowledge that exists at the root of nature or produce results that will advance human civilization in a revolutionary way," he said.
"But in basic science, this kind of research has to be done over a long period of time, not just a short period of time."