Korean pop culture, in numbers

Ewha Womans University

We counted 48 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Ewha Womans 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 Ewha Womans University is at least 48, 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.

12 more people we counted at Ewha Womans University are not in this table, because Wikidata records their name only in Korean and this is an English page. They are still inside the 48 above. We would rather leave a name out than print one you cannot read.

NameBornWikipedia languages
Claudia Kim198535
Kim Hye-ja194123
Lee Yu-bi199020
Kim Yeo-jin197215
Roh Yoon-seo200015
Ban Hyo-jeong194213
Yang Jin-sung198813
Ha Young199311
Park So-hyun197111
Park Hae-mi196410
Goo Jae-yee19869
Seo Min-jung19799
Kim Hye-in19938
Seo Ji-hye19968
Yoon Da-kyeong19716
Kwak Hyun-hwa19835
Park Jeong-ja19424
Park Mjong-sin19643
Choi Hyun-joo19802
Jo Seung-hee20022
Lee Seo-Yeon20032
Moon Signal19652
Sohn Su-hyun19882
Yang Ye-seung19872
Hwang So-hee19861
Kim San-ha20011
Kim Yuhyun19871
Koh Na-young19921
Lee Eun-jeong19851
Lim Ji-hyun19891

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

How far their work travelled

Of the 48 people we counted here, 5 have a title that reached a Netflix country Top 10. The median one reached 68 of the 94 countries Netflix publishes lists for.

Countries reached
Median of all 568
Median with the single widest person removed55.5
Widest single person — Roh Yoon-seo79

The second row is the check on the first. If removing one person moves the median a long way, the school’s figure was that person rather than that school. Here it moves from 68 to 55.5.

Counted as the widest single title a person has, not the sum of their titles: the source file gives a country count per title but not which countries, so adding them would count the same country twice. Schools with fewer than five such people are not given this figure at all. All 23 schools side by side →

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