K Culture Wire · birth years
139 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1972. They turn 54 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.
20 more people born in 1972 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 139 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 119 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1972 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | 1972-08-16 | 35,712 |
| Lee Jung-jae | 1972-12-15 | 31,885 |
| Yoo Jae-suk | 1972-08-14 | 13,811 |
| Kim Min-jong | 1972-03-23 | — |
| Shim Eun-ha | 1972-09-23 | — |
| Zero | 1972-05-14 | — |
| Ku Tchä-hun | 1972-12-18 | — |
| Kim Myung-min | 1972-10-08 | — |
| Bae Yong-joon | 1972-08-29 | — |
| Yoon Hae-young | 1972-01-05 | — |
| Yoon Chan | 1972-01-03 | — |
| Kim Cin-man | 1972-02-25 | — |
| Kim Tae-gyun | 1972-09-16 | — |
| Kim Jeong-hak | 1972-02-16 | — |
| Kim Ji-hyun | 1972-08-16 | — |
| Kim Min-hee | 1972-08-28 | — |
| Kim Feel | 1972-04-24 | — |
| Seo Taiji | 1972-02-21 | — |
| Kim Yun-tae | 1972-09-12 | — |
| Ri Min | 1972-09-26 | — |
| Jang Dong-geon | 1972-03-07 | — |
| TULA | 1972-08-07 | — |
| Bak So-ra | 1972-06-11 | — |
| Kim Joo-hyuk | 1972-10-03 | — |
| Lee A-hyeon | 1972-04-13 | — |
| Kim Ji-soo | 1972-10-24 | — |
| Kim Sang-kyung | 1972-06-01 | — |
| Hwang Su-jeong | 1972-12-24 | — |
| Bae Ki-sung | 1972-03-13 | — |
| Baek Won Gil | 1972-10-06 | — |
| Seo Kyung-seok | 1972-02-15 | — |
| Suh Jung | 1972-06-19 | — |
| Kim Sung-jae | 1972-04-18 | — |
| Lee Ji-hyun | 1972-10-20 | — |
| Oh Joo Yeon | 1972-09-14 | — |
| Park Ji-a | 1972-02-25 | — |
| Pyo Yeong Jae | 1972-10-17 | — |
| Kim Ho Seong | 1972-09-07 | — |
| Lee Dong-hee | 1972-04-26 | — |
| Kim Young-hee | 1972-06-18 | — |
| Ahn Jae-hwan | 1972-04-25 | — |
| Jeong Su-yeong | 1972-11-28 | — |
| Shim Mina | 1972-12-01 | — |
| DJ Eon | 1972-11-21 | — |
| Jeong Yu-seok | 1972-12-27 | — |
| Jang Jin-young | 1972-06-14 | — |
| Yang Mal-Bok | 1972-09-03 | — |
| Ryu Jin | 1972-11-16 | — |
| Ko So-young | 1972-10-06 | — |
| Lee Han-chul | 1972-12-01 | — |
| D.O | 1972-09-05 | — |
| Park Joo-mi | 1972-10-05 | — |
| Lee Hwi-jae | 1972-12-29 | — |
| Im Chae-won | 1972-01-12 | — |
| Im Hyeok-pil | 1972-03-03 | — |
| Kim Yeo-jin | 1972-06-24 | — |
| Kim Suk-hoon | 1972-04-15 | — |
| Lee Jeong-hee | 1972-11-30 | — |
| Lee Se-joon | 1972-07-06 | — |
| Lee Se-chang | 1972-02-17 | — |