# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nam-june-paik
# Generated: 2026-09-07T22:44:21.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nam-june-paik"
name: "Nam June Paik"
slug: "nam-june-paik"
description: "Nam June Paik was a South Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term \"electronic super highway\" to describe the future of telecommunications."
tagline: "American video art pioneer (1932–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paik_Nam_June_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-07-20"
deathDate: "2006-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2337110481586402
  historical:           23.854608
  currentAttention:     1.298394711992446
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0656760"
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    url:       "https://www.paikstudios.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump