# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yi-mun-yol
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:01:03.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yi-mun-yol"
name: "Yi Mun-yol"
slug: "yi-mun-yol"
description: "Yi Munyeol is a South Korean writer. Yi's given name at birth was Yeol; the character Mun was added after he took up a writing career. His works include novels, short stories and Korean adaptations of classic Chinese novels. An informal count has estimated that over 30 million copies of his books have been sold and, as of 2021, they have been translated into 21 languages. His works have garnered many literary awards and many have been adapted for film and television."
tagline: "South Korean writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yi_Munyeol.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.11483466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1038848/"
    handle:    "nm1038848"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yi_Mun-jol"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "إي من يول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "اى من يول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Mun-jol"
    title: "I Mun-jol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Mun-yol"
    title: "Yi Mun-yol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Munyeol"
    title: "Yi Munyeol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Mun-yol"
    title: "Yi Mun-yol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%E2%80%8C%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "یی مون‌یول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Mun-yol"
    title: "Yi Mun-yol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Munjol"
    title: "I Munjol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%96%87%E7%83%88"
    title: "李文烈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%AC%B8%EC%97%B4"
    title: "이문열"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Munyol"
    title: "Yi Munyol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Ли Мунёль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Muny%C3%B4l"
    title: "Yi Munyôl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Лі Муньоль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%96%87%E7%83%88"
    title: "李文烈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2503147"
    title: "Yi Mun-yol"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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