Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korean actors in their 20s

1,377 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers are in their 20s as of 2026 — that is, born between 1997 and 2006. 1,114 of them are named on this page. They are 14.9% of the 9,225 people we hold.

Ages move; birth years do not. Everyone here was born between 1997 and 2006, and that will still be true whenever you read this. The words “in their 20s” are true as of 2026, the year this page was built — so if you are reading it later, count from the birth years rather than from us.

Some of the names

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions carry an article about them. That measures how widely someone is written about, not how good they are, and it favours people who have been famous longer.

NameBornAge in 2026Wikipedia languages
ROSÉ1997-02-112986
Jungkook1997-09-012968
Park Ji-hyo1997-02-012946
Kim Da-hyun1998-05-282841
Cha Eun-woo1997-03-302939
Kim Sae-ron2000-07-312637
Son Chaeyoung1999-04-232735
Jang Won-young2004-08-312234
Kim So-hyun1999-06-042734
Kim You-jung1999-09-222733
Jeon Somi2001-03-092532
Yeri1999-03-052732

A dash means we hold no figure, not a zero.

Find someone by the day they were born

This page groups by age. If you know the date, the birthday pages are the faster way in — one page per month, and one per calendar day.

Where these numbers come from, and what they do not say

263 of the 1,377 people in this band are counted but not named. Their only name on Wikidata is written in Korean, and this is an English-language site — a name our readers cannot read would help nobody. We would rather count someone and not name them than leave them out of the count.

A bigger band does not mean more people of that age exist. Who has a Wikidata entry is decided by editors, not by us. More recent performers may simply be written down more often. We hold no way to separate those two, so we do not claim to.

24 people in our roster are younger than the youngest band here. Their birth years are known — we do not publish an age page about children.

The other bands