# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/younghill-kang
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:05:19.717Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/younghill-kang"
name: "Younghill Kang"
slug: "younghill-kang"
description: "Younghill Kang was a Korean-American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee. He also wrote an unpublished play, Murder in the Royal Palace, which was performed both in the US and in Korea. Kang's antipathy for Syngman Rhee was said to have influenced the book's framing. He has been called \"the father of Korean American literature.\""
tagline: "Korean writer (1898–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Younghill_Kang.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-06-05"
deathDate: "1972-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.03
  momentum:             4.137931034482758
  historical:           6.542585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%95%EC%9A%A9%ED%9D%98"
    title: "강용흘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younghill_Kang"
    title: "Younghill Kang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Yong-h%C5%ADl"
    title: "Kang Yong-hŭl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younghill_Kang"
    title: "Younghill Kang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younghill_Kang"
    title: "Younghill Kang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younghill_Kang"
    title: "Younghill Kang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9C%E9%BE%8D%E8%A8%96"
    title: "姜龍訖"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2369634"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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