K Culture Wire · birth years
14 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1942. They turn 84 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 1942 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 1942 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Byun Hee-bong | 1942-06-08 | — |
| Ban Hyo-jeong | 1942-11-27 | — |
| Jeon Yang-ja | 1942-02-20 | — |
| Park Joo-ah | 1942-09-20 | — |
| Park Jeong-ja | 1942-03-12 | — |
| Seo Woo-rim | 1942-07-23 | — |
| Son Yeong-soon | 1942-05-01 | — |
| Kyungsun Suh | 1942-11-08 | — |
| Shin Chaong-shik | 1942-04-20 | — |
| Jung Hye-sun | 1942-02-21 | — |
| Bae Ho | 1942-04-24 | — |
| Kwon Mi-hye | 1942-12-14 | — |