K Culture Wire · birth years
271 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1986. They turn 40 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.
70 more people born in 1986 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 271 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 201 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1986 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pom Klementieff | 1986-05-03 | 69,814 |
| Kim Seon-ho | 1986-05-08 | 43,769 |
| Park Min-young | 1986-03-04 | 28,271 |
| Jung Eun-chae | 1986-11-24 | 20,056 |
| Yoo Ah-in | 1986-10-06 | 16,556 |
| BoA | 1986-11-05 | 16,524 |
| Ryu Jun-yeol | 1986-09-25 | 15,215 |
| Shin Hyun-been | 1986-04-10 | 14,978 |
| Kim Hyun-joong | 1986-06-06 | 12,422 |
| Choi Siwon | 1986-04-07 | 11,236 |
| Moon Chae-won | 1986-11-13 | 10,787 |
| Park So-jin | 1986-05-21 | — |
| Hong Soo-ah | 1986-06-30 | — |
| Swings | 1986-10-14 | — |
| Shin Koo-eun | 1986-04-07 | — |
| Lucia | 1986-07-16 | — |
| Yang Se-chan | 1986-12-08 | — |
| Seo Yeon | 1986-04-11 | — |
| Lim Hyung-joo | 1986-05-07 | — |
| Park Juhyun | 1986-11-29 | — |
| Uhm Hyun-kyung | 1986-11-04 | — |
| Son Feya | 1986-08-22 | — |
| Lee Dong-hae | 1986-10-15 | — |
| Han Geu-rim | 1986-09-18 | — |
| Her Saerom | 1986-03-30 | — |
| Baek Jong-min | 1986-01-05 | — |
| Ha Juyeon | 1986-06-16 | — |
| Lee Sul Ah | 1986-12-19 | — |
| Min Seo hyeon | 1986-04-10 | — |
| Yoon Son-ga | 1986-05-20 | — |
| Jeon So-min | 1986-04-07 | — |
| Yoo So-young | 1986-03-29 | — |
| Song Ha-yoon | 1986-12-02 | — |
| Lee Hae-in | 1986-04-19 | — |
| Lee Sungmin | 1986-01-01 | — |
| Taegoon | 1986-01-17 | — |
| Kim Yoon-seo | 1986-03-28 | — |
| Choi Yoon-young | 1986-09-25 | — |
| Lee Te-Gang | 1986-01-30 | — |
| Hyunri | 1986-12-18 | — |
| Kim Jin-ho | 1986-05-21 | — |
| Navi | 1986-03-22 | — |
| NAVID | 1986-11-16 | — |
| Kim Yeonji | 1986-10-30 | — |
| Yunho | 1986-02-06 | — |
| Ji Ju-yeon | 1986-02-08 | — |
| Lee Ga-heun | 1986-04-04 | — |
| Song Eun-chae | 1986-04-15 | — |
| Beige | 1986-10-11 | — |
| Juno | 1986-12-15 | — |
| Goo Jae-yee | 1986-02-28 | — |
| Heo Young-saeng | 1986-11-03 | — |
| Choi Hee-seo | 1986-12-24 | — |
| Basick | 1986-08-12 | — |
| Yeum Seung-hyeon | 1986-01-26 | — |
| Seo Ji-yeon | 1986-11-11 | — |
| Lee Tae-im | 1986-09-02 | — |
| Hyeon-jeong | 1986-09-16 | — |
| Ji Yu | 1986-08-31 | — |
| Ju Min-ha | 1986-01-05 | — |