# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gang-il-sun
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:55:30.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gang-il-sun"
name: "Gang Il-sun"
slug: "gang-il-sun"
description: "Gang Il-sun, also known as Kang Il-sun and known to his followers as Kang Jeungsan, is the founder of Jeungsanism, a Korean religious movement that generated after his death around one hundred different new religions, including Daesoon Jinrihoe and Jeung San Do. Jeungsanism, as his movement was called, and various Korean new religions derived from it, have been seen by scholars as a syncretism of Buddhism (Bul-gyo), Confucianism (Yu-gyo), Taoism (Do-gyo) with unique religious insights of Kang and certain elements borrowed from Christianity (Gidok-gyo), as well as an underlying Korean shamanism (Musok-Sinang)."
tagline: "Korean new religious movement founder (1871 – 1909 )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%EA%B0%95%EC%9D%BC%EC%88%9C_%EC%B4%88%EC%83%81.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1871"
deathDate: "1909"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.25
  momentum:             2.623626373626375
  historical:           5.899750666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Jeungsan"
    title: "Kang Jeungsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Il-sun"
    title: "Gang Il-sun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Jeungsan"
    title: "Kang Jeungsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Jeungsan"
    title: "Kang Jeungsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Jeungsan"
    title: "Kang Jeungsan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%95%EC%9D%BC%EC%88%9C"
    title: "강일순"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5520922"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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