Korean pop culture, in numbers

Yonsei University

We counted 75 Korean actors, singers and other entertainers who studied at Yonsei 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 Yonsei University is at least 75, 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
J.Y. Park197128
Park Gyu-young199323
Ahn Ji-hyun199217
Choi Hee-seo198617
Choi Song-hyun198215
Park Jin-hee197815
Ahn Nae-sang196414
Shin Hyun-jun196812
Horan197911
Lee A-hyeon197211
Oh Sang-jin198010
Yoon Jong-shin196910
Han Jae-suk19739
Kim Yong-gun19469
Dragon Lee19588
Song Sokze19608
Ha Soo Bin19737
Kim Sung-kyung19727
Lee Dae-yeon19647
Bang Jun-seok19706
Cho Eun-ju19836
Han Jin-hee19496
Kim Dong-ryul19746
Yu In-chon19516
Kim Hyun-seok19725
Park Saebyul19855
An Chi-hwan19654
Bae Chang-ho19534
Cho Yeong-su19764
Oh Seh-wong19614

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We hold 1529 schools in all. 1474 of them have fewer than 15 people we could count, and we do not publish a page for those — they are counted, not hidden.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