Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korea University

We counted 72 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Korea 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 Korea University is at least 72, 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
Ok Taec-yeon198829
Jeon Do-yeon197325
Eugene198121
Jung Ryeo-won198120
Kim A-jung198220
Park Jeong-min198720
Bae Jong-ok196417
Kim Su-mi194917
Yoon Jeong-hee194417
Lee Beom-soo196916
Park Hye-soo199416
Choi Song-hyun198215
Alexander Lee Eusebio198814
Lee Mi-sook196014
Sung Si-kyung197913
Yeo Woon-kay194013
Hyun Young197612
Lee Sang-woo198012
Park Ji-sun198412
Lee In-hye198111
Sunwoo Eun-sook195910
Ye Soo-jung195510
Kim Yong-rim19409
Lee Se-eun19809
Cha Jung-won19897
Joo Jin-mo19587
Lee Hoon19737
Lee Sang-hoon19717
Lee Jae-ryong19646
Oh Dae-gyu19686

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We hold 1529 schools in all. 1474 of them have fewer than 15 people we could count, and we do not publish a page for those — they are counted, not hidden.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