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Gunsan (kor)

South Korea

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Gunsan ranks 6,289th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Huelva, Ufa Governorate, and County Antrim. Memorable people born in Gunsan include Ko Un, Lee Eun-ju, and Jeong Gyeong-mi. Gunsan has been the birth place of many athletes, and writers. Gunsan is located in South Korea.

Gunsan, also romanized as Kunsan, is a city in Jeonbuk State, South Korea. It is on the south bank of the Geum River just upstream from its exit into the Yellow Sea. It has emerged as a high-tech manufacturing industrial city and an international trade seaport that is approximately 200 km (120 mi) southwest of Seoul on the midwest coast of the Korean Peninsula. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 1990, Gunsan was the birth place of 7 globally memorable people, including Ko Un, Lee Eun-ju, and Jeong Gyeong-mi.

People Born in Gunsan

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Gunsan were athletes (4), writers (1), actors (1), and wrestlers (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, athletes have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Gunsan, including Cha Woo-chan, Oh Ji-hwan, and Lee Yong-kyu. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Gunsan, including Cha Woo-chan, Oh Ji-hwan, and David Kenny.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Gunsan since 1700.