Korean pop culture, in numbers

Dongguk University

We counted 200 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Dongguk University. The 30 most widely written about are named below.

This is a floor, not a total. Wikidata records a school for 4,535 of the 9,249 people we hold — 49%. For the other 4,714 we do not know where they studied, and not knowing is not the same as not having gone. So the real number for Dongguk University is at least 200, and we cannot tell you how much higher.

Some of the names

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions carry an article about them. That measures how widely someone is written about, not how good they are, and it favours people who have been famous longer.

NameBornWikipedia languages
Jun Ji-hyun198149
Im Yoon-ah199048
Lee Jung-jae197247
Han Hyo-joo198740
Park Min-young198640
Seo Joo-hyun199135
Choi Min-sik196233
Kim Ji-won199233
Hahm Eun-jung198830
Kim So-yeon198030
Lee Seung-gi198728
Shin Min-a198428
Son Na-eun199427
Cho Yeo-jeong198126
Kang So-ra199026
Oh Yeon-seo198725
Heo Ga-yoon199024
Han Chae-young198023
Lee Hyun-woo199323
Kwon So-hyun199422
Zo In-sung198122
Chae Jung-an197721
Go Hyeon-jeong197121
Oh Yeong-su194421
Chae Shi-ra196820
Jeon Hye-bin198320
Park Ha-sun198720
Park Jung-min198720
Jeong Da-bin198019
Kim Hyung-jun198719

A dash means we hold no figure, not a zero.

Where these numbers come from, and what they do not say

A bigger count does not mean a better school. It reflects how large the school is, how long it has existed, and who happens to have a Wikidata entry — three things we hold no way to separate. We do not rank schools and we do not suggest you pick one.

We count schools, not degrees. Wikidata's field records that someone studied there. It does not tell us whether they graduated, what they studied, or for how long, so neither do we.

We hold 1529 schools in all. 1474 of them have fewer than 15 people we could count, and we do not publish a page for those — they are counted, not hidden.

Other schools we counted

Other ways into the same people