Korean pop culture, in numbers

Sejong University

We counted 72 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Sejong 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 Sejong 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.

4 more people we counted at Sejong 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 72 above. We would rather leave a name out than print one you cannot read.

NameBornWikipedia languages
G-Dragon198843
Chungha199630
Shin Hae-sun198925
Han Ji-hye198422
Lee Jun-ho199021
Jung In-sun199120
Lee Da-hee198520
Yeon Woo-jin198419
Yooa199518
Jeon Jong-seo199417
Yoo Yeon-seok198417
Kyeon Mi-ri196416
Chae Bin199714
Lee Hyun198314
Lee Sung-jong199314
Kim Do-wan199513
Kim Bo-mi198712
Yoon Jin-yi199012
Choiza198011
Jang Woo-hyuk197811
Lee A-hyeon197211
Park Hee-von198311
Seo Young-joo199811
Kim Sung-eun198310
Lee Seo-won199710
Jung Ji-yoon19849
Kino19989
Lee Moo-saeng19809
Lee Se-eun19809
Oh Chang-seok19829

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

How far their work travelled

Of the 72 people we counted here, 8 have a title that reached a Netflix country Top 10. The median one reached 60 of the 94 countries Netflix publishes lists for.

Countries reached
Median of all 860
Median with the single widest person removed55
Widest single person — Jeon Jong-seo89

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 60 to 55.

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