WRITER

Yu Kil-chun

1856 - 1914

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Yu Gil-chun (Korean: 유길준; November 21, 1856 – September 30, 1914) was a Korean politician. Yu lived during the last few decades of Joseon and the Korean Empire, before the occupation of the peninsula by Japan. As a young man, he studied the Chinese classics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yu Kil-chun has received more than 34,815 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 35 in 2019). Yu Kil-chun is the 3,469th most popular writer (down from 2,942nd in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 140th in 2019) and the 8th most popular South Korean Writer.

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  • 35k

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  • 58.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yu Kil-chun ranks 3,469 out of 7,302. Before him are Laurence Oliphant, Gioconda Belli, Carl Robert Jakobson, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, H.D., and Merab Kostava. After him are Castor of Rhodes, Olena Pchilka, Johannes Ewald, Arnošt Lustig, Octavia E. Butler, and Alain Chartier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Yu Kil-chun ranks 77. Before him are Wojciech Kossak, Vasily Rozanov, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Robert Kajanus, Giuseppe Martucci, and Booker T. Washington. After him are Felix Mottl, Franz Roubaud, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Louis Brandeis, and André Gedalge. Among people deceased in 1914, Yu Kil-chun ranks 74. Before him are Tor Aulin, Ellen Axson Wilson, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Albéric Magnard, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, and Domenico Ferrata. After him are Jane Morris, Pyotr Nesterov, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Dimitrie Sturdza, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, and Hubertine Auclert.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Yu Kil-chun ranks 168 out of 1,128. Before him are Park Won-soon (1956), Lazarus You Heung-sik (1951), Kyung Wha Chung (1948), Daniel Dae Kim (1968), Park Ji-sung (1981), and Jeong In-ji (1396). After him are Yun Hyu (1617), Kim Tae-hee (1980), Ji Chang-wook (1987), Lee Beom-seok (1900), Suga (1993), and Park Seo-joon (1988).

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Among WRITERS In South Korea

Among writers born in South Korea, Yu Kil-chun ranks 8. Before him are Kim Bu-sik (1075), Ko Un (1933), Na Hye-sok (1896), Uhwudong (1430), Yi Kwang-su (1892), and Heo Nanseolheon (1563). After him are Han Kang (1970), Yun Seondo (1587), Park Wan-suh (1931), Yi Munyeol (1948), Shin Kyung-sook (1963), and Kim Young-ha (1968).

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