# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ko-un
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:59:04.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ko-un"
name: "Ko Un"
slug: "ko-un"
description: "Ko Un is a South Korean poet whose works have been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. He had been imprisoned many times due to his role in the campaign for Korean democracy and was later mentioned in Korea as one of the front runners for the Nobel Prize in Literature."
tagline: "Korean poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ko_Un_Cracow_Poland_October23_2009_Fot_Mariusz_Kubik_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.135684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/PoetKoUn"
    handle:    "PoetKoUn"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.koun.co.kr/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كو أون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كو اون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF_%CE%9F%CF%85%CE%BD"
    title: "Κο Ουν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "کو اون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E9%8A%80"
    title: "高銀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "고은"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ко Ун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8B_%E0%A8%89%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਕੋ ਉਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ko Un"
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    title: "Ko Un"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ko_Un"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q494036"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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