# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-jang-soo
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:38:14.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-jang-soo"
name: "Kim Jang-soo"
slug: "kim-jang-soo"
description: "General (Ret.) Kim Jang-soo, ROKA, was the 37th Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Army and the 40th Republic of Korea Minister of National Defense. He was a Grand National Party Representative in the National Assembly of South Korea from 2008 to 2012.\nKim graduated from the Republic of Korea Military Academy in 1971. He graduated from Korea National Defense University in 1988, then he earned a master's degree in Arts at Graduate School of Public Administration, Yonsei University in 1989."
tagline: "South Korean general and defence minister"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kim_Jang-soo_(10475453726)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.37
  momentum:             4.207202594299369
  historical:           5.017568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jang-soo"
    title: "Kim Jang-soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jang-soo"
    title: "Kim Jang-soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%AB%A0%E6%B4%99"
    title: "金章洙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EC%9E%A5%EC%88%98_(1948%EB%85%84)"
    title: "김장수 (1948년)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%AB%A0%E6%B4%99"
    title: "金章洙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3196731"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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