# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-ki-young
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:24:27.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-ki-young"
name: "Kim Ki-young"
slug: "kim-ki-young"
description: "Kim Ki-young was a South Korean film director known for intensely psychosexual, melodramatic, and grotesque films, often centred on female characters. Born in Seoul and raised in Pyongyang, he developed an interest in theatre before moving south after World War II, where he studied dentistry while continuing to work in theatre. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service, and in 1955 used discarded equipment to produce his first two features, whose success led him to establish his own production company."
tagline: "South Korean film director (1919–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Kim_Ki-young.jpg/330px-Kim_Ki-young.jpg"
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: "1919-10-10"
deathDate: "1998-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.058788
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453579/"
    handle:    "nm0453579"
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gim_Gi-yeong"
    title: "Gim Gi-yeong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "كيم كى يونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "کیم کی یونگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B6%BA%E6%B3%B3"
    title: "金綺泳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B_%E1%83%99%E1%83%98_%E1%83%98%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%98"
    title: "კიმ კი იუნგი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EA%B8%B0%EC%98%81_(%EC%98%81%ED%99%94_%EA%B0%90%EB%8F%85)"
    title: "김기영 (영화 감독)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-young"
    title: "Kim Ki-young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D0%B8_%D0%81%D0%BD"
    title: "Ким Ки Ён"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q494258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3285942"
    title: "Kim Young Ki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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