# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/choe-museon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:50:23.916Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/choe-museon"
name: "Choe Museon"
slug: "choe-museon"
description: "Ch'oe Musŏn was a medieval Korean chemist, inventor, and military general during the late Goryeo Dynasty and early Joseon Dynasty. He is best known for enabling Korea to domestically produce gunpowder by obtaining a recipe for the Chinese commodity from a Chinese merchant, as well as inventing various gunpowder-based weapons in an attempt to repel the wokou pirates that plundered coastal regions of the Korean Peninsula."
tagline: "Goryeo military official, inventor (1325 - 1395 )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portraits_of_kings_at_Tongiljeon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1325"
deathDate: "1395"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.580205333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E8%8C%82%E5%AE%A3"
    title: "崔茂宣"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشوى موسيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch'oe_Mus%C5%8Fn"
    title: "Ch'oe Musŏn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe_Museon"
    title: "Choe Museon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Mu-seon"
    title: "Choi Mu-seon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E8%8C%82%E5%AE%A3"
    title: "崔茂宣"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E8%8C%82%E5%AE%A3"
    title: "崔茂宣"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B5%9C%EB%AC%B4%EC%84%A0"
    title: "최무선"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Mu-seon"
    title: "Choi Mu-seon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe_Museon"
    title: "Choe Museon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497083"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump