# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kang-hyeong-cheol
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:09:08.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kang-hyeong-cheol"
name: "Kang Hyeong-cheol"
slug: "kang-hyeong-cheol"
description: "Kang Hyeong-cheol is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His first two films Scandal Makers (2008) and Sunny (2011) have been the highest grossing Korean films of their respective years, and are both among the highest grossing Korean films of all time. Kang won Best Director at the 48th Grand Bell Awards in 2011."
tagline: "South Korean film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(%ED%83%80%EC%A7%9C-%EC%8B%A0%EC%9D%98_%EC%86%90)_%EC%B5%9C%EC%8A%B9%ED%98%84_%EC%BA%90%EC%8A%A4%ED%8C%85_%EB%B9%84%ED%95%98%EC%9D%B8%EB%93%9C_%EC%98%81%EC%83%81_Kang_Hyeong-cheol.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.884126666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3292009/"
    handle:    "nm3292009"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Hyeong-cheol"
    title: "Kang Hyeong-cheol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "كانج هيونج تشيول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Hyeong-cheol"
    title: "Kang Hyeong-cheol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Hyeong-cheol"
    title: "Kang Hyeong-cheol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Hyeong-cheol"
    title: "Kang Hyeong-cheol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Hyeong-cheol"
    title: "Kang Hyeong-cheol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%AB"
    title: "カン・ヒョンチョル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%95%ED%98%95%EC%B2%A0"
    title: "강형철"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6362184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84976"
    title: "Kang Hyoung-chul"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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