# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-soo-man
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:55:07.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-soo-man"
name: "Lee Soo-man"
slug: "lee-soo-man"
description: "Lee Soo-man is a South Korean business executive and record producer who is best known for being the founder of SM Entertainment, a multinational entertainment company based in Seoul. He has also been referred to as the \"president of culture\", as one of the pioneers of the Korean Wave. Lee debuted as a singer in 1971 while he was a student at Seoul National University. In 1989, he founded SM Entertainment, which has since become one of the largest entertainment companies in the country."
tagline: "South Korean businessman and record producer (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Soo-man_in_2024.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: "1952-06-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.41406666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Lee Soo-man"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lee Soo-man"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "이수만"
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    title: "Lee Soo-man"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лі Су Ман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لی سو-مین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump