Korean pop culture, in numbers

Konkuk University

We counted 76 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Konkuk 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 Konkuk University is at least 76, 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.

4 more people we counted at Konkuk 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 76 above. We would rather leave a name out than print one you cannot read.

NameBornWikipedia languages
Lee Min-ho198778
Kim Seok-jin199254
Hyuna199245
Lee Jong-suk198943
Bae Doona197937
Choi Min-ho199137
Yoo Ah-in198632
Song Kang199431
Lee Hye-ri199429
Nicole Jung199125
Park Han-byul198424
JAY B199423
Kim Da-som199323
Kim Hye-yoon199623
Lee Da-hae198423
Chae Soo-bin199422
Hong Jong-hyeon199021
Ko Kyung-pyo199019
Kim Jung-eun197418
Lee Min-ki198518
Kang Tae-oh199417
Seo Woo198517
Subin199417
Jang Hee-jin198316
Ryu Hye-young199116
Son Dong-woon199115
Um Tae-goo198315
Hwang Woo-seul-hye197914
Ahn Jae-hong198613
Hong Soo-ah198613

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

How far their work travelled

Of the 76 people we counted here, 22 have a title that reached a Netflix country Top 10. The median one reached 25 of the 94 countries Netflix publishes lists for.

Countries reached
Median of all 2225
Median with the single widest person removed23
Widest single person — Yoo Ah-in92

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 25 to 23.

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