Kang Hang
Korean scholar
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| Intro | Korean scholar | |
| Places | North Korea South Korea | |
| was | Scholar | |
| Work field | Academia | |
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| Religion: | Confucianism | |
| Birth | 1567 | |
| Death | 1618 (aged 51 years) |
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Kang Hang (1567–1618) was a Korean scholar who was taken prisoner by the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1597. He was taken to Japan where he was influential in passing on neo-Confucianist ideas.