K Culture Wire · birth years
159 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1971. They turn 55 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.
35 more people born in 1971 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 159 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 124 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1971 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 |
|---|---|---|
| J.Y. Park | 1971-12-13 | 59,829 |
| Ma Dong-seok | 1971-03-01 | 54,146 |
| Go Hyeon-jeong | 1971-03-02 | 14,690 |
| Jung Chan | 1971-02-23 | — |
| Jung Sun-kyung | 1971-02-08 | — |
| Lee Young-ae | 1971-01-31 | — |
| Green Face | 1971-02-23 | — |
| Kwon Oh-jung | 1971-11-24 | — |
| Yang Jung-a | 1971-07-25 | — |
| Park Yong-woo | 1971-03-16 | — |
| Cho Yeon-woo | 1971-05-30 | — |
| Yoon Hyun-suk | 1971-12-27 | — |
| Hong Seok-cheon | 1971-02-03 | — |
| Kim Jin-su | 1971-02-20 | — |
| Kim Tae-woo | 1971-04-15 | — |
| Kim Se-heon | 1971-06-02 | — |
| Kim Yeong-min | 1971-11-05 | — |
| Kim Yong Joon | 1971-08-24 | — |
| Kim Hye-yeon | 1971-03-28 | — |
| Malo | 1971-10-25 | — |
| Park Seong-min | 1971-04-01 | — |
| Park So-hyun | 1971-02-11 | — |
| K2 | 1971-07-31 | — |
| MC Meta | 1971-12-26 | — |
| Anita Tsoy | 1971-02-07 | — |
| Ryu Si-won | 1971-10-06 | — |
| Kang Seong-jin | 1971-01-13 | — |
| Ryu Seung-su | 1971-08-12 | — |
| Park Jae-hoon | 1971-06-08 | — |
| Jeong Jun-ha | 1971-03-18 | — |
| Song Il-gon | 1971-01-01 | — |
| Oh Yeon-soo | 1971-10-27 | — |
| Kim Jung-nan | 1971-07-16 | — |
| Ryu Tae-joon | 1971-12-07 | — |
| Oh Jung-hae | 1971-10-23 | — |
| Shin Seok-chul | 1971-07-31 | — |
| Kim Yeon-woo | 1971-07-22 | — |
| Hye-rin Seo | 1971-08-06 | — |
| Kim Nam-joo | 1971-05-10 | — |
| Ahn Sang-min | 1971-09-05 | — |
| Park Seon-a | 1971-11-23 | — |
| Jang Jin | 1971-02-24 | — |
| Ji Jin-hee | 1971-06-24 | — |
| Lee Mi-yeon | 1971-09-23 | — |
| Kang Myung-joo | 1971-02-28 | — |
| Ahn Jae-wook | 1971-09-12 | — |
| Song Il-kook | 1971-10-01 | — |
| You Hee-Yeol | 1971-04-19 | — |
| Yoo Young-jin | 1971-04-10 | — |
| Lee Ran-hee | 1971-07-15 | — |
| Lee Sang-hoon | 1971-03-11 | — |
| Lee Haeyoung | 1971-12-22 | — |
| Steve M. Choe | 1971-05-11 | — |
| Kim So-i | 1971-02-23 | — |
| Lee Ha-neul | 1971-05-03 | — |
| Lee Hyung-chul | 1971-02-19 | — |
| Kim Hee-won | 1971-01-10 | — |
| Lim Seung-dae | 1971-02-08 | — |
| Oh Yoon-hong | 1971-08-09 | — |
| Wang Hee Ji | 1971-09-27 | — |