# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yi-hwang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:57:48.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yi-hwang"
name: "Yi Hwang"
slug: "yi-hwang"
description: "Yi Hwang was a Korean philosopher, writer, and Confucian scholar of the Joseon period. He is considered the most important philosopher of Korea - he is honored by printing his portrait on the 1000 South Korean won banknote, on the reverse of which one can see an image of his school, Dosan Seowon. He was of the Neo-Confucian literati, established the Yeongnam School and set up the Dosan Seowon, a private Confucian academy."
tagline: "Korean Confucian scholar (1502 -1571)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Statue_of_Yi_Hwang.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1501"
deathDate: "1570"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.69
  momentum:             1.344323194799164
  historical:           21.84256266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ko.wikiquote.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%ED%99%A9"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "يى هوانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Hwang"
    title: "I Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%BB%89"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%A5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ji Hvang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Hwang"
    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "อี ฮวัง"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yi Hwang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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