# Kim Young-sam

> South Korea's first civilian president in three decades, who spent nearly 30 years fighting military dictatorships before winning office in 1993 — then watched his approval collapse from 97% to 6% as bridges fell, a department store caved in, and the 1997 financial crisis forced the country into an IMF bailout.

*President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** South Korea
- **Born:** 1927-12-20
- **Died:** 2015-11-22
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Elected to the National Assembly at 25, the youngest in Korean history, Kim Young-sam became a fixture of South Korean opposition through the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, standing against the authoritarian rule of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo-hwan alongside Kim Dae-jung. When he won the presidency in 1992, he arrived as the first civilian in over 30 years and opened with force: a sweeping anti-corruption drive that put both his predecessors in prison and an internationalization push called Segyehwa. Then the ground gave way — literally, with the Seongsu Bridge and Sampoong Department Store collapses — and economically, when the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit and South Korea had to accept tens of billions in conditional IMF loans. His approval rating, once 97%, bottomed at 6% by the time he left office in 1998. He died in 2015; since then the reassessment has been kinder.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 60.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.8 / 100
- **Now attention:** 15.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #South Korea, #Asia, #20th Century

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