# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pak-kum-chol
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:26.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pak-kum-chol"
name: "Pak Kum-chol"
slug: "pak-kum-chol"
description: "Pak Kum-chol was a North Korean politician. Having been a guerrilla during the anti-Japanese struggle, he became a high-ranking politician after the liberation of Korea. Pak aligned himself with his former guerrilla brothers-in-arms from the Kapsan Operation Committee to form a faction within the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) called the \"Kapsan faction\". This faction sought to replace Kim Il Sung with Pak. Kim retaliated by purging the faction in 1967 in what is known as the Kapsan faction incident. Pak was sent to work at a factory in the countryside and was either executed or died by suicide in May 1967."
tagline: "Politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pak_Kum-chol_in_1961_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1912"
deathDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             0.1831129196337742
  historical:           9.836036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%B4%E9%87%91%E5%96%86"
    title: "朴金喆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Kum-chol"
    title: "Pak Kum-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Kum-chol"
    title: "Pak Kum-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "پاک کوم چول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Kum-chol"
    title: "Pak Kum-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Kum-chol"
    title: "Pak Kum-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Kum-chol"
    title: "Pak Kum-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%B4%E9%87%91%E5%96%86"
    title: "朴金喆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%95%EA%B8%88%EC%B2%A0"
    title: "박금철"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Kum-chol"
    title: "Park Kum-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BC_%D0%A7%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Пак Кум Чхоль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4991850"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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