# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shin-dong-hyuk
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:39:17.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shin-dong-hyuk"
name: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
slug: "shin-dong-hyuk"
description: "Shin Dong-hyuk is a North Korean-born human rights activist. He claims to be the only prisoner to have successfully escaped from a \"total-control zone\" grade internment camp in North Korea. His biography, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, was written with the assistance of former Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden."
tagline: "North Korean defector"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shin_Dong-Hyuk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1982-11-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.53
  momentum:             15
  historical:           18.14271466666667
  currentAttention:     13.72
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 239
sources:
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    title: "申东赫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "شين دونغ هيوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "شين دونج هيوك (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Tong-hjok"
    title: "Sin Tong-hjok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF-%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%A9"
    title: "شین دونگ-هیوک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%92_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A7"
    title: "שין דונג היוק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Donghjok"
    title: "Sin Donghjok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B3%E6%9D%B1%E8%B5%AB"
    title: "申東赫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%EB%8F%99%ED%98%81_(1982%EB%85%84)"
    title: "신동혁 (1982년)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D1%91%D0%BA"
    title: "Син Дон Хёк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk"
    title: "Shin Dong-hyuk"
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    title: "Шін Тон-Хьок"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64075"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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