# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-tae-gyun
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:22:19.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-tae-gyun"
name: "Kim Tae-gyun"
slug: "kim-tae-gyun"
description: "Kim Tae-kyun is a South Korean film director. Kim wrote and directed Volcano High (2001) and Temptation of Wolves (2004). He also directed The Adventures of Mrs. Park (1996), First Kiss (1998), A Millionaire's First Love, Crossing (2008), Higanjima (2010), A Barefoot Dream (2010), Innocent Thing (2014), and Bad Sister (2014). Crossing and A Barefoot Dream were selected as the South Korean entries for Best Foreign Language Film at the \n81st and 83rd Academy Awards, but both did not make the final shortlist."
tagline: "South Korean film director"
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: "1960-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.25
  momentum:             0.9183673469387754
  historical:           7.680382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1048540/"
    handle:    "nm1048540"
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Tae-gyun"
    title: "Kim Tae-gyun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "كيم تاى جيون (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Tae-kyun"
    title: "Kim Tae-kyun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Tae-kyun_(director)"
    title: "Kim Tae-kyun (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Tae-gyun"
    title: "Kim Tae-gyun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Tae-gyun_(sutradara)"
    title: "Kim Tae-gyun (sutradara)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A5%E3%83%B3_(%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E7%9B%A3%E7%9D%A3)"
    title: "キム・テギュン (映画監督)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%ED%83%9C%EA%B7%A0_(%EC%98%81%ED%99%94_%EA%B0%90%EB%8F%85)"
    title: "김태균 (영화 감독)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q489095"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3562828"
    title: "Kim Gyun-tae"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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