# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-jong-hak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:54.527Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-jong-hak"
name: "Kim Jong-hak"
slug: "kim-jong-hak"
description: "Kim Jong-hak was a South Korean television director and producer, best known for the seminal and highly rated Korean dramas Eyes of Dawn (1991) and Sandglass (1995). After financial losses incurred by the big-budget fantasy series The Legend (2007) and Faith (2012), Kim was under investigation when he committed suicide in 2013."
tagline: "South Korean TV director and producer (1951-2013)"
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: "1951-11-05"
deathDate: "2013-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.23
  momentum:             5.069984447900467
  historical:           7.234884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5248764/"
    handle:    "nm5248764"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E9%8D%BE%E5%AD%B8"
    title: "金鍾學"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86%DA%AF-%DA%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9"
    title: "کیم جۆنگ-ھاک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-hak"
    title: "Kim Jong-hak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-hak"
    title: "Kim Jong-hak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%DA%A9"
    title: "کیم جونگ هاک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8F%E3%82%AF_(%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC)"
    title: "キム・ジョンハク (プロデューサー)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EC%A2%85%ED%95%99"
    title: "김종학"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12588702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4109908"
    title: "Kim Jong-hak"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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