K Culture Wire · birth years
277 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1980. They turn 46 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.
71 more people born in 1980 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 277 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 206 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1980 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 Hyo-jin | 1980-04-04 | 38,273 |
| Cho Seung-woo | 1980-03-28 | 32,590 |
| Kim Tae-hee | 1980-03-29 | 26,594 |
| Tablo | 1980-07-22 | 22,509 |
| Kim Nam-gil | 1980-03-13 | 16,386 |
| Jin Goo | 1980-07-20 | 11,521 |
| Cho Jung-seok | 1980-12-26 | 11,268 |
| Kim So-yeon | 1980-11-02 | 11,232 |
| Park Kahi | 1980-12-25 | — |
| Park Ji-yeon | 1980-03-17 | — |
| Won Ho Chung | 1980-10-22 | — |
| Verbal Jint | 1980-12-19 | — |
| Ko Ji-yong | 1980-07-01 | — |
| Ok Ji-yeong | 1980-10-13 | — |
| Ock Joo-hyun | 1980-03-20 | — |
| Kim Mi Yeon | 1980-10-30 | — |
| Lee Hwa-seon | 1980-02-29 | — |
| Choi Hong-man | 1980-10-30 | — |
| Son Ho-young | 1980-03-26 | — |
| Kim Sun-young | 1980-04-17 | — |
| Kim Young-im | 1980-04-23 | — |
| Park Hyo-jun | 1980-06-12 | — |
| Baek Bong-ki | 1980-12-16 | — |
| Oh Sang-jin | 1980-02-15 | — |
| Lee Jae-eun | 1980-02-08 | — |
| Hwangbo | 1980-08-16 | — |
| Han Chae-young | 1980-09-13 | — |
| Kang Ye-won | 1980-03-15 | — |
| Baek Bo-ram | 1980-08-15 | — |
| Na Kyung-min | 1980-12-28 | — |
| Noblesse | 1980-04-18 | — |
| Noh Yoo-min | 1980-10-12 | — |
| The Name | 1980-08-04 | — |
| Dokgo Jun | 1980-05-29 | — |
| Kim Sung-kyun | 1980-07-05 | — |
| Hong Eun-hui | 1980-02-17 | — |
| Soulman | 1980-10-23 | — |
| Soy | 1980-11-24 | — |
| Tori | 1980-03-26 | — |
| Kim Hye-na | 1980-10-25 | — |
| Lisa | 1980-02-25 | — |
| Mikey | 1980-01-30 | — |
| MO SE | 1980-03-07 | — |
| Sa Kang | 1980-01-04 | — |
| Jang Yoon-jeong | 1980-02-16 | — |
| Son Hun-su | 1980-03-17 | — |
| Yoon Hyung-bin | 1980-01-03 | — |
| Lee Dong-gun | 1980-07-26 | — |
| Jung Kyung-mi | 1980-09-03 | — |
| Junggigo | 1980-09-05 | — |
| Lee Eun-ju | 1980-11-16 | — |
| Kang Sung Hun | 1980-02-22 | — |
| Eun Joo-hee | 1980-11-28 | — |
| Choi Hyun-joo | 1980-07-04 | — |
| Kim Jong-wan | 1980-12-24 | — |
| Lee Jung-hoon | 1980-11-11 | — |
| Lee Na-ra | 1980-08-22 | — |
| Lee Jeong-hyeon | 1980-02-07 | — |
| Kim Dong-yoon | 1980-08-30 | — |
| Lee Se-eun | 1980-08-31 | — |