# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoon-sam-yook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:03:33.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoon-sam-yook"
name: "Yoon Sam-yook"
slug: "yoon-sam-yook"
description: "Yoon Sam-yook was a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Yoon won Best Screenplay at the 1981, 1985 and 1994 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards for films, The Hut (1981), The King's Poison (1984) and I Will Survive (1993)."
tagline: "South Korean film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nj0mfLdnCh7vwRTiDw899j9FrAL.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1937-05-25"
deathDate: "2020-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.138697333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0948617/"
    handle:    "nm0948617"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoon_Sam-yook"
    title: "Yoon Sam-yook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "يون سام يوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "يون سام يوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoon_Sam-yook"
    title: "Yoon Sam-yook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoon_Sam-yook"
    title: "Yoon Sam-yook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%A4%EC%82%BC%EB%A5%99"
    title: "윤삼륙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17503946"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1079601"
    title: "Yoon Sam-yook"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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