# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jang-jin-sung
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:58:40.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jang-jin-sung"
name: "Jang Jin-sung"
slug: "jang-jin-sung"
description: "Jang Jin-sung is the pseudonym of a North Korean poet and government official who defected to South Korea. He had worked as a psychological warfare officer within the United Front Department of the Korean Workers' Party. Jang specifically worked within the United Front Department Section 5 (Literature), Division 19 (Poetry) of Office 101. Office 101 created propaganda intended to encourage South Korean sympathy for North Korea. One of Jang's job duties was to create poetry under a South Korean pseudonym Kim Kyong-min and in a South Korean style. His poetry was intended for distribution within South Korea."
tagline: "South Korean poet"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.53
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.710910666666666
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4a8d0a53-216e-4f30-859a-cb6a7fbd3886"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "چانج چين سونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Jin-sung"
    title: "Jang Jin-sung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Jin-sung"
    title: "Jang Jin-sung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Jin-sung"
    title: "Jang Jin-sung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E7%9C%9F%E6%99%9F"
    title: "張真晟"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%A5%EC%A7%84%EC%84%B1"
    title: "장진성"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%87_%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99-%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87"
    title: "ชัง จิน-ซ็อง"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E7%9C%9F%E6%99%9F"
    title: "張真晟"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12614718"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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