K Culture Wire · birth years
20 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1940. They turn 86 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.
3 more people born in 1940 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 20 total.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1940 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yeo Woon-kay | 1940-02-25 | — |
| Kim Ji-mee | 1940-07-15 | — |
| Park Geun-hyung | 1940-06-07 | — |
| Hwang In-shik | 1940-09-13 | — |
| Park Woong | 1940-09-23 | — |
| Yang Young-joon | 1940-12-20 | — |
| Min-seob Jeong | 1940-03-03 | — |
| Kim Yong-rim | 1940-03-03 | — |
| Choe Jeong-hun | 1940-02-22 | — |
| Cho Chun | 1940-11-29 | — |
| Kim Gi-ju | 1940-12-23 | — |
| Yoon Yang-ha | 1940-05-01 | — |
| Sa Mi-ja | 1940-05-09 | — |
| Lee Young Hoo | 1940-07-18 | — |
| Choi Bool-am | 1940-06-15 | — |
| Jin Seong-man | 1940-03-29 | — |
| Choi Ji-hee | 1940-01-22 | — |