Idols moving into acting looks common. We counted it.
We hold birth dates for 281 K-pop idols. Separately we hold the cast lists of every Korean title that reached a weekly Netflix top 10 anywhere. Matching the two by Wikidata id, 36 names sit on both — 12.8%. The other 245 appear in neither cast list we hold.
Those 281 idols belong to 132 groups. Of those, 94 have nobody at all in a top-10 cast. Here are the larger groups, with how many of their members we matched:
| Group | Idols on file | In a Netflix top-10 cast |
|---|---|---|
| Super Junior | 13 | 1 |
| EXO | 12 | 1 |
| Girls' Generation | 9 | 3 |
| Iz*One | 9 | 0 |
| Twice | 9 | 0 |
| I.O.I | 8 | 3 |
| BTS | 7 | 0 |
| Got the Beat | 7 | 0 |
| NCT U | 7 | 0 |
| Stray Kids | 7 | 0 |
| Super Junior-M | 7 | 1 |
| SuperM | 7 | 0 |
The birth dates behind this count come from the same place we use to draw charts. Each name below opens its four-pillars reading on KLifeMap.AI, a separate site we also run. Free, no sign-up.
Counted 2026. 10. 4. 오후 6:37:05. Idol list and birth dates from Wikidata; cast lists from the weekly Netflix top 10. We report what we counted and attach no reason to it.