Korean pop culture, in numbers

Sangmyung University

We counted 49 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Sangmyung 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 Sangmyung University is at least 49, 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
Park Bo-gum199044
Nam Ji-hyun199024
Jang Jin-young197219
Park Se-young198819
Yeon Sang-ho197819
Bae Seul-ki198617
Kim Jaewon198117
Jeon Hye-jin197616
Choi Won-young197615
Jang Seung-jo198115
Kim Yo-han199915
Park Sol-mi197815
Kim Dong-wan197914
Son Tae-young198013
Ahn Gil-kang196612
Hwang Sun-hee198612
Lee Seul-bi199112
Kim Kkot-bi198511
Shin Da-eun198511
Park Sang-won195910
Kim Ah-young19949
Kwon So-hyun19878
Kim Sori19856
Jang Beom-june19893
Jeon Se-hyeon19823
Kim Tae-jung19993
Youjeen19773
Kim Ha Young19792
Kim Hye-jeong19612
Kim Hyeong-kon19882

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We hold 1529 schools in all. 1474 of them have fewer than 15 people we could count, and we do not publish a page for those — they are counted, not hidden.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