K Culture Wire · birth years
211 Korean actors, singers and songwriters in our roster were born in 1997. They turn 29 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.
42 more people born in 1997 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 211 total.
Showing the 60 most-read of 169 listed names.
A birth year is a birth year. Nothing here says people born in 1997 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jungkook | 1997-09-01 | 113,190 |
| ROSÉ | 1997-02-11 | 80,923 |
| Cha Eun-woo | 1997-03-30 | 72,585 |
| Jun | 1997-01-22 | 70,395 |
| Bang Chan | 1997-10-03 | 36,993 |
| Kwak Dong-yeon | 1997-03-19 | 28,245 |
| Park Ji-hyo | 1997-02-01 | 20,730 |
| Kim Woo-jin | 1997-04-08 | 18,087 |
| Jung Chae-yeon | 1997-12-01 | 12,129 |
| Kim Min-gyu | 1997-04-06 | 11,830 |
| Cho Mi-yeon | 1997-01-31 | 11,796 |
| Jang Gyu-ri | 1997-12-27 | 11,364 |
| Yeo Jin-goo | 1997-08-13 | — |
| Jamie | 1997-07-05 | — |
| Yuk Jidam | 1997-03-10 | — |
| Baek Ye-rin | 1997-06-26 | — |
| Seo Ji Hoon | 1997-04-25 | — |
| Seo Ye-ahn | 1997-05-06 | — |
| Woo Jin-young | 1997-05-31 | — |
| TANI | 1997-07-05 | — |
| Luda | 1997-02-06 | — |
| Han Hye-ri | 1997-08-24 | — |
| Leedo | 1997-07-26 | — |
| Choi Yu-ju | 1997-03-05 | — |
| Kim Dong-hyuk | 1997-01-03 | — |
| Lee Sae-rom | 1997-01-07 | — |
| KISSXS | 1997-08-06 | — |
| Hwang Ye-eun | 1997-01-12 | — |
| Koo Jun-hoe | 1997-03-31 | — |
| Younghoon | 1997-08-08 | — |
| Kim Minkyeung | 1997-07-29 | — |
| Kang Kyung-won | 1997-11-05 | — |
| Ryu Won | 1997-11-08 | — |
| Ahn Eun-jin | 1997-08-31 | — |
| Jaehyun | 1997-02-14 | — |
| Choi Woo-hyuk | 1997-05-04 | — |
| Tia | 1997-03-15 | — |
| Ji Woo | 1997-11-25 | — |
| Kim Sae-rok | 1997-01-30 | — |
| Im Ha-young | 1997-12-03 | — |
| Kim Chae-won | 1997-11-08 | — |
| Yubin | 1997-09-09 | — |
| Hyunjae | 1997-09-13 | — |
| Kang San | 1997-10-28 | — |
| Song Geon-hee | 1997-08-16 | — |
| Chae Bin | 1997-08-22 | — |
| Sung Ji-yeon | 1997-12-20 | — |
| Yuju | 1997-10-04 | — |
| Ryu Su-jeong | 1997-11-19 | — |
| Ji Su-yeon | 1997-04-20 | — |
| Choi Moon-hee | 1997-04-25 | — |
| Kim Ye-won | 1997-08-23 | — |
| OVAN | 1997-12-02 | — |
| HARU | 1997-02-26 | — |
| Park Si-woo | 1997-02-07 | — |
| Eunha | 1997-05-30 | — |
| Jiho | 1997-04-04 | — |
| Lee Seok-min | 1997-02-18 | — |
| Kim Ju-yeop | 1997-05-06 | — |
| Lee Ho-jung | 1997-01-20 | — |