|birth_date = {{birth date|1924|1|6|df=y}}<ref name=BBCobit>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2195358.stm Obituary: Kim Dae-jung]." [[BBC News]]. 18 August 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2009.</ref>
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|8|18|1924|121|36|df=y}}<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.economist.com/node/14302282 | worknewspaper=The Economist | title=Kim Dae-jung | date=27 August 2009}}</ref>
|birth_place = [[Hauido|Haui-do]], [[Sinan County, South Jeolla|Sinan]], [[South Jeolla Province|Jeollanam-do]], [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese Korea]]<br /><small>(now [[Hauido|Haui Island]], [[South Korea]])</small>
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{{Nobelprize|Peace}}'''Kim Dae-jung'''<ref>'''Kim Dae Jung''' {{lang-ko|김대중}}; [[Hanja]] 金大中</ref> (6 January 6, 1924 – 18 August 18, 2009) was a [[South Korea]]n [[president]]. In 2000, he got the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. He is the first person from Korea to get a Nobel prize.<ref>[http://www.asianweek.com/2000_10_26/opinion1_kimdaejung.html Kim Dae-Jung] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608231156/http://www.asianweek.com/2000_10_26/opinion1_kimdaejung.html |date=2007-06-08 }} (Short Asian Week biography)</ref> A [[Roman Catholic]] since 1957, he has been called the "[[Nelson Mandela]]" of [[Asia]] <ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/12/bio.kim.daejung/ Kim Dae-Jung] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922050400/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/12/bio.kim.daejung/ |date=2006-09-22 }} (Short CNN biography)</ref> Kim Dae Jung was the [[President of South Korea|President]] (succeeding [[Kim Young-sam]]) from 1998 to 2003. He was born in [[Haui-do]], [[South Jeolla]] Province, an island off the South Korean Coast in 1924.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090819/8768809/1 |work=[[The Dong-a Ilbo]] |title=DJ 생일은 1924년 1월 6일 |date=19 August 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208121510/http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090819/8768809/1 |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref>
Kim died on 18 August 18, 2009 at a hospital in [[Seoul]] from [[cardiac arrest]] caused by [[multiple organ failure]] and [[pneumonia]], aged 8385.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/19/local/me-kim-dae-jung19 |title=Kim Dae-jung dies at 85; former South Korean president and Nobel laureate |author=Barbara Demick |date=19 August 2009 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=25 June 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225113946/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/19/local/me-kim-dae-jung19 |archive-date=25 December 2014 }}</ref>
