# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kang-hang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:48:02.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kang-hang"
name: "Kang Hang"
slug: "kang-hang"
description: "Kang Hang was a Korean philosopher in Japan during the late Azuchi–Momoyama period and early Edo period. In 1597, he was taken prisoner by the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi during his second invasion of Joseon in the Imjin War. He was taken to Japan where he was influential in passing on neo-Confucianist ideas to the people there."
tagline: "Korean scholar (1567–1618)"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1567"
deathDate: "1618"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.39
  momentum:             4.378378378378376
  historical:           5.985322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Hang"
    title: "Kang Hang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Hang"
    title: "Kang Hang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "کونگ هانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9C%E6%B2%86"
    title: "姜沆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9C%E6%B2%86"
    title: "姜沆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%95%ED%95%AD"
    title: "강항"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q626099"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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