# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-m-mccune
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:42:11.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-m-mccune"
name: "George M. McCune"
slug: "george-m-mccune"
description: "George McAfee \"Mac\" McCune was an American scholar of Korea. He was one of the creators and namesakes of the McCune–Reischauer system for the romanization of Korean, along with Edwin O. Reischauer. Significant work on the system was done by Korean linguists Choe Hyeon-bae, Jeong In-seop, and Kim Seon-gi. McCune taught Korean history and language at Occidental College and the University of California, Berkeley."
tagline: "American linguist (1908-1948)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/George_m_mccune.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-06-16"
deathDate: "1948-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           10.29395466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump