Korean pop culture, in numbers

University of Suwon

We counted 26 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at University of Suwon. The 21 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 University of Suwon is at least 26, 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.

5 more people we counted at University of Suwon are not in this table, because Wikidata records their name only in Korean and this is an English page. They are still inside the 26 above. We would rather leave a name out than print one you cannot read.

NameBornWikipedia languages
Ryu Jun-yeol198639
Ji Seong197722
Hwang Jung-eum198420
Shin Sung-rok198220
So I-hyeon198419
Kang Ki-young198315
Kang Hoon199113
Shim Hyeong-tak197812
Kim Seung-woo196910
Lee Min-ji198810
Boom19828
Na Hyun-hee19706
Lee Yeon-kyung19692
Yang Sang-mo19822
Cha Yup19861
Hwang Hyeonjun19801
Jeon Ah Min19831
Jeong Jae-gon19691
Jo Su-Hyun19821
Kim Sung-min19911
Yoon Young-kyun19841

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

How far their work travelled

Of the 26 people we counted here, 5 have a title that reached a Netflix country Top 10. The median one reached 19 of the 94 countries Netflix publishes lists for.

Countries reached
Median of all 519
Median with the single widest person removed15.5
Widest single person — Ryu Jun-yeol68

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 19 to 15.5.

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