K Culture Wire · birth years
248 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1988. They turn 38 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.
73 more people born in 1988 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 248 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 175 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1988 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jung Hae-in | 1988-04-01 | 164,142 |
| Eric Nam | 1988-11-17 | 91,525 |
| Kim Soo-hyun | 1988-02-16 | 55,208 |
| Park Seo-joon | 1988-12-16 | 35,697 |
| Ok Taec-yeon | 1988-12-27 | 30,109 |
| G-Dragon | 1988-08-18 | 29,911 |
| Ahn Bo-hyun | 1988-05-16 | 28,513 |
| Taeyang | 1988-05-18 | 18,419 |
| Joel Kim Booster | 1988-02-29 | 17,240 |
| Lee Soo-hyuk | 1988-05-31 | 12,364 |
| Yim Si-wan | 1988-12-01 | 10,641 |
| Kim Jae-kyung | 1988-12-24 | — |
| Yang Jin-sung | 1988-06-27 | — |
| Go Eun-ah | 1988-10-28 | — |
| Seo Yoon-ah | 1988-09-26 | — |
| Seo Ji-seung | 1988-10-04 | — |
| Heo Iseul | 1988-02-13 | — |
| Hwang Seung-eon | 1988-10-31 | — |
| Euaerin | 1988-05-03 | — |
| Kim Yoon-ji | 1988-09-06 | — |
| Park Narae | 1988-02-23 | — |
| Kim Shi-hoo | 1988-01-02 | — |
| Lee Hyun-jae | 1988-04-12 | — |
| Kim Yeo-hee | 1988-10-04 | — |
| Park Ji-Mi | 1988-08-13 | — |
| Cho Kyuhyun | 1988-02-03 | — |
| Park Gyu-ri | 1988-05-21 | — |
| Kevin | 1988-02-23 | — |
| Jinri Park | 1988-04-24 | — |
| 40 | 1988-05-18 | — |
| Rimi | 1988-03-19 | — |
| Barbara | 1988-01-08 | — |
| Lee Joon | 1988-02-07 | — |
| Kim Joo-ri | 1988-05-21 | — |
| Sunwook Kim | 1988-04-22 | — |
| Kim Jun-hyung | 1988-03-04 | — |
| Wang Ji-won | 1988-11-12 | — |
| Yun I-na | 1988-12-03 | — |
| Kim Hye-seong | 1988-01-14 | — |
| Go Woo-ri | 1988-02-22 | — |
| Hwang Kwanghee | 1988-08-25 | — |
| Hahm Eun-jung | 1988-12-12 | — |
| Han Hye-rin | 1988-11-06 | — |
| Dr.Simpson | 1988-08-10 | — |
| Han Seung-yeon | 1988-07-24 | — |
| Lee Ji-hoon | 1988-10-29 | — |
| Jane Yoon | 1988-11-22 | — |
| Lee Ga-hyun | 1988-05-18 | — |
| Park Jin-joo | 1988-12-24 | — |
| Yubin | 1988-10-04 | — |
| Park Se-young | 1988-07-30 | — |
| Choi Eun-seo | 1988-02-21 | — |
| Jeon Soo-jin | 1988-11-08 | — |
| Jessi | 1988-12-17 | — |
| Jung Min-ji | 1988-11-06 | — |
| Jeong Dong-hyun | 1988-01-09 | — |
| Hwang Ha-na | 1988-04-23 | — |
| Joanne | 1988-09-28 | — |
| Gil Eun-hye | 1988-10-05 | — |
| J-Cera | 1988-01-16 | — |