# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-moon-sae
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:23.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-moon-sae"
name: "Lee Moon-sae"
slug: "lee-moon-sae"
description: "Lee Moon-sae is a South Korean ballad singer who is often considered a Korean pop icon. Since his debut in 1978, he has released 16 full-length albums, including 1987's When Love Passes By, which sold 2.85 million copies, making it the best-selling album in South Korea to date at the time. He is also well known for being the host of the popular South Korean radio show, Starry Night, on MBC FM, from 1985 to 1996. He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2007."
tagline: "South Korean singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Moon-se_from_acrofan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.34518266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lms117"
    handle:    "lms117"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/leemoonsae/"
    handle:    "leemoonsae"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/moonsaejjang"
    handle:    "moonsaejjang"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.leemoonsae.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5071608"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3"
    title: "لى مون س"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Moon-sae"
    title: "Lee Moon-sae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%87"
    title: "لی مون سه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Moon-se"
    title: "Lee Moon-se"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Moon-sae"
    title: "Lee Moon-sae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%AC%B8%EC%84%B8"
    title: "이문세"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Moon-sae"
    title: "Lee Moon-sae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B5"
    title: "Лі Мун Се"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%96%87%E4%B8%96"
    title: "李文世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%96%87%E4%B8%96"
    title: "李文世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a916f0a8-6210-4e05-ada5-e80216a615f4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16090860"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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