K Culture Wire · birth years
14 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1938. They turn 88 this year. Ordered by how many people opened their English Wikipedia article in the last 30 days, so the name you are most likely to know is first.
2 more people born in 1938 are counted but not listed — Wikidata holds no English name for them, only a Korean one, and this is an English-language site. They are inside the 14 total.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1938 are better or luckier. A busy year means more people were born and recorded, not that the year was special. We tested whether birth year predicts reaching a chart, and it does not — that test is here.
| Name | Born | Readers, 30 days |
|---|---|---|
| Kim Ji Yeong | 1938-09-25 | — |
| Jeon Un | 1938-12-07 | — |
| Shin Jung-hyeon | 1938-11-04 | — |
| Hyun Mee | 1938-01-28 | — |
| Kim Ji-young | 1938-09-25 | — |
| Lee Jin-soo | 1938-01-25 | — |
| Jeong Uk | 1938-05-05 | — |
| Eagle Han-ying | 1938-05-28 | — |
| Patti Kim | 1938-02-28 | — |
| Kim Young-ok | 1938-01-06 | — |
| Nam Sang-gyu | 1938-10-15 | — |
| Monica Yoo | 1938-01-24 | — |