Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korean actors on the Netflix charts

640 people, each with their own page. To be here, someone has to appear in at least 2 Korean titles that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 and that we hold enough weekly data to publish. We have a birth date for 536 of them and say so plainly for the rest.

This is not a ranking of actors. The number beside each name is how many top-10 country-week places that person’s titles took. A long-running show puts everyone in its cast high on this list. That is a fact about the show, not about the person.

Who charted the widest

NameTitlesPlacesCountriesBorn
Lee You-mi64,347931994-07-18
Park Hae-soo104,226931981-11-21
Kim Young-ok64,006931938-01-06
Wi Ha-jun43,71493not recorded
Gong Yoo73,507931979-07-10
Lee Byung-hun133,477931970-07-12
Kang Mal-Geum53,40293not recorded
Heo Sung-tae83,384931977-10-20
Lee Jung-jae93,258931972-12-15
Heo Dong-won53,250931980-06-09
You Seong-joo33,248931973-11-12
Kim Joo-ryoung33,232931976-07-15
Jung Ho-yeon23,230931994-06-23
Jeon Bae-soo31,58093not recorded
Lee Sang-yi31,460871991-11-27
Yeom Hye-ran111,34193not recorded
Yoo Yeon-seok111,264931984-04-11
Yoo In-soo21,242931998-03-25
Choi Dae-hoon41,239821980-11-16
Lim Ji-yeon81,21791not recorded
Go Youn-jung71,195651996-04-22
Kim Hae-suk121,170781955-12-30
Park Eun-bin51,155611992-09-04
Joo Sang-wook31,118811978-07-18
Park Sung-hoon41,09691not recorded
Lee Chae-min51,074842000-09-15
Lee Do-hyun51,05991not recorded
Yu Jun-sang41,051911969-11-28
Jung So-min31,002561989-03-16
Im Yoon-ah5974791990-05-30

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Fourteen seconds: we measure people two ways — how often their Wikipedia page is opened, and how many countries their titles charted in. Of the people we can measure both ways, not one is in the top five of both lists. Free to repost with the address on it.

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Source: Netflix’s published weekly country top 10s joined to Wikidata cast lists (P161), filtered to Korean citizenship (P27). Foreign actors in co-productions drop out of that filter, and so do Korean actors whose citizenship Wikidata does not record. The hole runs both ways and we cannot size it.

What we wrote from this data

What this roster is

One row per person who appears in at least two Korean titles that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 and that have enough weeks of data for us to publish a page.

Not this. This is NOT a filmography. It counts only Netflix top-10 charting titles we publish a page for. A person can have many more credits than the number here. It is a floor, not a total.

People in the roster
1,302
People with a page here
640
Dropped for too little data
662
Names shared by more than one person
47
Split into separate pages for a shared name
2