Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korean actors in their 60s and over

1,203 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers are in their 60s and over as of 2026 — that is, born in 1966 or earlier. 910 of them are named on this page. They are 13.0% of the 9,225 people we hold.

Ages move; birth years do not. Everyone here was born in 1966 or earlier, and that will still be true whenever you read this. The words “in their 60s and over” 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
Kim Ki-duk1960-12-206666
Youn Yuh-jung1947-06-197935
Choi Min-sik1962-04-276433
Lee Soo-man1952-06-187430
Sumi Jo1962-11-226425
Choi Eun-hee1926-11-2010024
Kim Hye-ja1941-10-258523
Myung-whun Chung1953-01-227322
Kang Soo-youn1966-08-186021
Oh Yeong-su1944-10-198221
Kim Hae-suk1955-12-307120
Na Moon-hee1941-11-308520

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

293 of the 1,203 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 Their birth years are known — we do not publish an age page about children.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