# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yekwon-sunwoo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:04.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yekwon-sunwoo"
name: "Yekwon Sunwoo"
slug: "yekwon-sunwoo"
description: "Yekwon Sunwoo is a South Korean classical pianist. In 2017, at 28 years old, Sunwoo was the first Korean to win the gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He won the Sendai International Music Competition in 2013."
tagline: "South Korean classical pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yekwon_Sunwoo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1989-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.700758666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekwon_Sunwoo"
    title: "Yekwon Sunwoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekwon_Sunwoo"
    title: "Yekwon Sunwoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekwon_Sunwoo"
    title: "Yekwon Sunwoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ee4c8860-3ae9-4ec6-8e35-04284e82b056"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%A0%EC%9A%B0%EC%98%88%EA%B6%8C"
    title: "선우예권"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B2%9C%E4%BA%8E%E8%89%BA%E6%9D%83"
    title: "鲜于艺权"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51858568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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