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Kim Ban-jang

South Korean singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ24288557 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yoo Cheol-sang (Korean: 유철상) better known by his stage name Kim Ban-jang (김반장) is a South Korean singer. He is the leader, vocal and drummer of the band Windy City. He has also been a key member of various other Korean reggae bands, including the gugak fusion band I&I Djangdan.

In May 2016, he joined the cast of variety show I Live Alone.

Editorial summary

“Kim Ban-jang” enters the record as south Korean singer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ban-jang, South and Korean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-10-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ban-jang, South and Korean.
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Why this record matters

“Kim Ban-jang” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ban-jang, South and Korean provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24288557. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Kim Ban-jang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.