Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korea National University of Arts

We counted 115 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Korea National University of Arts. 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 Korea National University of Arts is at least 115, 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.

2 more people we counted at Korea National University of Arts are not in this table, because Wikidata records their name only in Korean and this is an English page. They are still inside the 115 above. We would rather leave a name out than print one you cannot read.

NameBornWikipedia languages
Suho199140
Kim Go-eun199135
Park So-dam199131
Lee Sun-kyun197530
Jung So-min198927
Lim Ji-yeon199024
Han Ye-ri198423
Lee Je-hoon198423
Jang Dong-geon197221
Kim Jung-hyun199021
Park Jeong-min198720
Jang Hye-jin197519
Kim Mi-soo199219
Won Ji-an199918
Ahn Eun-jin199117
Ha Yoon-kyung199217
Park Ju-hyun199417
Shin Hyun-been198617
Yang Se-jong199217
Yoon Park198717
Chae Seo-jin199416
Lee Yoo-young198916
Moon Jeong-hee197615
Yoo Sun197615
Choi Sung-eun199614
Jin Kyeong197214
Kim Sung-cheol199114
Seo Eun-soo199414
Stephanie198714
Byun Yo-han198613

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

How far their work travelled

Of the 115 people we counted here, 32 have a title that reached a Netflix country Top 10. The median one reached 41.5 of the 94 countries Netflix publishes lists for.

Countries reached
Median of all 3241.5
Median with the single widest person removed36
Widest single person — Park Jeong-min92

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 41.5 to 36.

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