# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oh-kil-nam
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:02:50.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oh-kil-nam"
name: "Oh Kil-nam"
slug: "oh-kil-nam"
description: "Oh Kil-nam is a retired South Korean economist, who was offered a job as an economist in North Korea, and so defected to North Korea with his wife Shin Suk-ja\nand daughters, then left them behind when he obtained political asylum in Denmark, where he was working in the North Korean embassy."
tagline: "South Korean economist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.847052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%87_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "اوه كيل نام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Kil-nam"
    title: "Oh Kil-nam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%89%E5%90%89%E7%94%B7"
    title: "呉吉男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4%EA%B8%B8%EB%82%A8"
    title: "오길남"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B3%E5%90%89%E7%94%B7"
    title: "吳吉男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3615940"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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