K Culture Wire · birth years
238 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1996. They turn 30 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.
45 more people born in 1996 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 238 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 193 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1996 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jennie | 1996-01-16 | 121,980 |
| Go Youn-jung | 1996-04-22 | 53,132 |
| Moon Ga-young | 1996-07-10 | 30,098 |
| Yoo Jeong-yeon | 1996-11-01 | 24,651 |
| Kim Se-jeong | 1996-08-28 | 24,305 |
| Ro Woon | 1996-08-07 | 20,461 |
| Kim Hye-yoon | 1996-11-10 | 18,639 |
| Momo | 1996-11-09 | 16,953 |
| Seol In-ah | 1996-01-03 | 15,341 |
| Joy | 1996-09-03 | 13,738 |
| Kim Young-dae | 1996-03-02 | 11,866 |
| Kim Min-jae | 1996-11-01 | 10,877 |
| WOODZ | 1996-08-05 | 10,478 |
| B.I | 1996-10-22 | — |
| JIN | 1996-06-12 | — |
| Sungha Jung | 1996-09-02 | — |
| Zelo | 1996-10-15 | — |
| Park Gun-tae | 1996-02-05 | — |
| Lee In-sung | 1996-07-28 | — |
| Yerin | 1996-08-19 | — |
| Lee Soo-kyung | 1996-10-24 | — |
| Jung Seung-hwan | 1996-08-21 | — |
| Oh Ha-young | 1996-07-19 | — |
| June Hyoung Lee | 1996-10-28 | — |
| Su-jin | 1996-06-26 | — |
| Yang Hye-ji | 1996-01-20 | — |
| Lee A-jin | 1996-05-02 | — |
| Seungyeon | 1996-11-06 | — |
| Lee Su-hyun | 1996-09-05 | — |
| Lee Seo-ho | 1996-06-07 | — |
| Park Hae-yoon | 1996-01-10 | — |
| Jeon So Min | 1996-08-22 | — |
| Lee Soo-bin | 1996-07-24 | — |
| Jvcki Wai | 1996-07-05 | — |
| Holland | 1996-03-04 | — |
| Jo Byeong-kyu | 1996-04-23 | — |
| Darin | 1996-12-08 | — |
| Sangyeon | 1996-11-04 | — |
| Choi Hye-kyung | 1996-10-06 | — |
| Eun Seo-u | 1996-11-25 | — |
| Jeon Won-woo | 1996-07-17 | — |
| Choi Kyu-jin | 1996-03-12 | — |
| Lee Hye-bin | 1996-01-12 | — |
| Jeon Jong-hyeok | 1996-03-21 | — |
| Hong Kyung | 1996-02-14 | — |
| Seo Ji-hye | 1996-07-17 | — |
| Chung Hye-lyn | 1996-01-25 | — |
| Kim Young-geun | 1996-12-05 | — |
| Kim Ji-sung | 1996-10-30 | — |
| Minseo | 1996-04-09 | — |
| Hong Eui-jin | 1996-10-08 | — |
| Kim Do-hee | 1996-12-21 | — |
| Zuho | 1996-07-04 | — |
| Kim Sung Hyun | 1996-03-16 | — |
| Kim Yeon-seo | 1996-08-06 | — |
| I | 1996-12-02 | — |
| I.M | 1996-01-26 | — |
| Aiobahn | 1996-08-16 | — |
| Jeon Ji-woo | 1996-10-04 | — |
| Kim Woo-seok | 1996-10-27 | — |