Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korean actors born in January

897 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers have a birthday in January, spread over 31 days. 669 of them are named on the day pages below. Across the whole year we hold 9,249 people.

This is a count of birth dates, not a horoscope. Sharing a birth month means exactly that and nothing else — we do not tell you what it says about anyone, because it does not say anything about anyone.

Every day in January

Each day has its own page with the names. The busiest day this month is 1 January with 48, the quietest 28 January with 18. That difference is not a finding — with this many people a spread of a dozen either way is what chance looks like, and we have not tested it.

DayPeopleNamedSome of them
1 January4836Yeon Sang-ho, Winter, Lee Sungmin
2 January2718Yoon Se-ah, Kim Ji-hyun, Kim Shi-hoo
3 January3531Jisoo, Goo Hara, Seol In-ah
4 January2617Kang Hye-jung, Yoo Hai-jin, Bae Na-ra
5 January3627Jang Seo-hui, Yoo In-young, Yang Yo-seob
6 January3427JAY B, Kim Young-ok, Kwon Eun-bin
7 January3021Lee Sun-bin, Lim Ju-eun, Gong Hyun-joo
8 January2621Shin Ji-min, Kim Ga-eun, Lee Yi-kyung
9 January2821Yang Hyun-suk, Nam Ji-hyun, Lee Yeon-hee
10 January3226Heo Sol-ji, Brian Joo, Choi Won-young
11 January2819Son Ye-jin, Kim Young-kwang, Chaeyeon
12 January3728Lee Bo-young, Doh Kyung-soo, Kim Sa-rang
13 January2620Lee Seung-gi, Kim Gun-mo, Jung Jun-won
14 January2321Kai, Kim Hye-seong, Joo Hyun-young
15 January3725Jun. K, Clara Lee, Kwak Si-yang
16 January2620Jennie, Lee Min-ki, Boo Seung-kwan
17 January3221Song Kang-ho, Kangin, Samuel
18 January3022Gang Dong-won, Shin Ye-eun, Minzy
19 January2922Hwang In-yeop, Park Won-sook, Kim Si-eun
20 January3223Choo Ja-hyun, Kim So-hee, Kim Jeong-hoon
21 January2420Jung Ryeo-won, Kang Seung-yoon, Cho Soo-hyang
22 January2219Jun, Myung-whun Chung, Bae Yoon-kyung
23 January2317Lee Jung-eun, Lee Hwa-kyum, San E
24 January2722Kim Min-seok, Yoo Young-jae, Yoo Ho-jeong
25 January2620Roh Yoon-seo, Lee Jun-ho, Claudia Kim
26 January3223Jin Ki-joo, Moonbin, Kim Jae-joong
27 January2920Im Ho, Kino, Lee Byung-joon
28 January1814Lee Yu-ri, Yoo Seon-ho, Jang So-yeon
29 January2213Lee Dae-hwi, Jo Min-su, Ahn Se-ha
30 January3322Choi Hyun-wook, Kang Han-na, Esom
31 January1913Cho Mi-yeon, Lee Young-ae, Shim I-yeong

Some of the names

Taken in date order, not chosen by us and not ranked. The full list for a day is on that day's page.

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

2,234 of the 9,249 people we count are not named on any page.A day page lists the ones with an English label we can show; the rest are counted and not named. We would rather count someone and not name them than leave them out of the count.

Months are not the same length — 31 days here against 28 to 31 elsewhere — so comparing month totals compares day counts as much as anything else. And Wikidata is not a census: who has an entry is decided by editors, not by us.

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