# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ma-kwang-soo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:12.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ma-kwang-soo"
name: "Ma Kwang-soo"
slug: "ma-kwang-soo"
description: "Ma Kwang-soo was a South Korean poet, professor in Korean literature, novelist and essayist. He died in an apparent suicide in September 2017. For most of his life, he taught at Yonsei University. He was imprisoned for eight months, and discharged from his university for six years, for publishing 'sexually explicit' novels in 1995. His novel, Happy Sara was deemed obscene by the Supreme Court and is banned for teenagers."
tagline: "South Korean poet, novelist, and scholar (1951–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-04-14"
deathDate: "2017-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             1.542857142857143
  historical:           8.091182666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.makwangsoo.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "ما كوانج سو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Kwang-soo"
    title: "Ma Kwang-soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Kwang-soo"
    title: "Ma Kwang-soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Kwang-soo"
    title: "Ma Kwang-soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Kwang-soo"
    title: "Ma Kwang-soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E5%85%89%E6%B4%99"
    title: "馬光洙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EA%B4%91%EC%88%98"
    title: "마광수"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E5%85%89%E6%B4%99"
    title: "馬光洙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q624211"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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