K Culture Wire · birth years
217 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1979. They turn 47 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.
54 more people born in 1979 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 217 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 163 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1979 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gong Yoo | 1979-07-10 | 40,393 |
| Lee Bo-young | 1979-01-12 | 27,667 |
| Bae Doona | 1979-10-11 | 20,749 |
| Lee Hyori | 1979-02-19 | 11,939 |
| Kang Ji-hwan | 1979-03-20 | — |
| Yang Dong-geun | 1979-06-01 | — |
| Lee Min-woo | 1979-07-28 | — |
| MC Mong | 1979-09-04 | — |
| Jeong So-yeong | 1979-01-06 | — |
| Jung Jun | 1979-03-06 | — |
| MC Sniper | 1979-02-08 | — |
| Ko Jeong-min | 1979-04-16 | — |
| Kwon Hae-sung | 1979-05-23 | — |
| Gilgun | 1979-04-19 | — |
| Im Su-jeong | 1979-07-11 | — |
| Chunja | 1979-04-05 | — |
| Crown J | 1979-11-12 | — |
| Choo Ja-hyun | 1979-01-20 | — |
| Lee Jaijin | 1979-07-18 | — |
| Lee Hee-jin | 1979-05-16 | — |
| Yang Jin-woo | 1979-09-03 | — |
| Kim Ji-hye | 1979-05-25 | — |
| I To-un | 1979-05-04 | — |
| Bae Min Hee | 1979-05-09 | — |
| Kang Doo | 1979-02-27 | — |
| Hyun Woo-sung | 1979-03-16 | — |
| Jeong Yeong-wung | 1979-06-19 | — |
| Kim Gyu-ri | 1979-06-27 | — |
| Maya | 1979-11-17 | — |
| Yoo Gun Hyung | 1979-02-14 | — |
| H-Eugene | 1979-04-06 | — |
| Kim Jae-woo | 1979-10-14 | — |
| UMC/UW | 1979-06-10 | — |
| Kang Seong-min | 1979-07-23 | — |
| Seo Min-jung | 1979-07-11 | — |
| Kang Suk-jung | 1979-06-18 | — |
| V.One | 1979-06-24 | — |
| Lee Chun-hee | 1979-02-19 | — |
| Eric Mun | 1979-02-16 | — |
| Park Si-yeon | 1979-03-29 | — |
| Sung Si-kyung | 1979-04-17 | — |
| Kim Jaeduck | 1979-08-17 | — |
| Hirofumi Arai | 1979-01-18 | — |
| Kim E-Z | 1979-01-31 | — |
| Ryu Dam | 1979-12-06 | — |
| Alberto Jo Lee | 1979-06-08 | — |
| MayBee | 1979-09-10 | — |
| Yeo Wook-hwan | 1979-12-23 | — |
| Sunny Kim | 1979-06-06 | — |
| Min Ji-young | 1979-06-24 | — |
| Seo Won | 1979-11-26 | — |
| P.K | 1979-03-02 | — |
| Hwang Chan-hee | 1979-12-21 | — |
| Kim Jong-min | 1979-09-24 | — |
| Kim Yu-mi | 1979-10-12 | — |
| Lee Hee-joon | 1979-06-29 | — |
| Soo Ae | 1979-09-16 | — |
| Ahn Hye Kyung | 1979-08-11 | — |
| Yang Sun-il | 1979-02-22 | — |
| Oh Seung-eun | 1979-02-08 | — |