# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-hyon-hui
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:04:33.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-hyon-hui"
name: "Kim Hyon-hui"
slug: "kim-hyon-hui"
description: "Kim Hyon-hui, also known as Okhwa, is a former North Korean agent and mass murderer, responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people. She was arrested in Bahrain following the bombing and extradited to South Korea. There she was sentenced to death but later pardoned shortly after being convicted and sentenced."
tagline: "Former North Korean agent"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiroshi_Nakai_and_Kim_Hyon-hui_20100720_13_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.18
  momentum:             5.554432937610507
  historical:           19.628632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "كيم هيون هوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "كيم هيون هوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ким Хюн Хий"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hjon-hi"
    title: "Kim Hjon-hi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui_(Geheimdienstagentin)"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui (Geheimdienstagentin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "کیم هیون هویی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "קים היון-ווי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E8%B3%A2%E5%A7%AB"
    title: "金賢姫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%ED%98%84%ED%9D%AC"
    title: "김현희"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyun-hee"
    title: "Kim Hyun-hee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon_Hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon Hui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyon-hui"
    title: "Kim Hyon-hui"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q488561"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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