An actor with five charting titles is looked up ten times as often as one with a single title
Does having more charting titles mean an actor's own name is looked up more?
The median actor with five or more charting titles is looked up 9.9 times as often as the median actor with one. The four bands run 1.21, 2.15, 4.72, 11.94 and do not turn back.
Bottom band 1.21 · top band 11.94 · 9.9× between them.
Four bands, 1,023 actors
Reads per million reads of the whole language edition, summed across Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, 12 months. One row is one actor.
| Charting titles | Actors | Median reads | Most-read in band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 title | 398 | 1.21 | Karina · 115.02 |
| 2 titles | 206 | 2.15 | Jisoo · 148.78 |
| 3–4 titles | 227 | 4.72 | Byeon Woo-seok · 263.86 |
| 5 or more | 192 | 11.94 | Go Youn-jung · 273.06 |
Bands under 15 actors would not get a median at all. Note the last column: the most-read actor in the one-title band is read more than the median of the top band, so this is about where the middle sits, not about ceilings.
Which way does the arrow point
This cannot say which way the arrow points. An actor with five charting titles is looked up more, but casting follows attention as readily as attention follows casting, and nothing here separates the two. It is also a floor: readers in these four countries use the English Wikipedia too, and that cannot be split by country.
We could not read this the first time
We measured this once before with a different instrument and could not read it. That piece asked how far an actor's titles travelled, and for half the panel that figure was a fact about one title rather than about the person. This asks a narrower question — how often the person's own article is opened — and that one moves.
The earlier piece stands — see Half of the Korean actors on a Netflix chart are there for one title. What changed is the instrument, not the panel.
How this was counted
- Source — Wikidata cast lists for Korean titles that reached a Netflix country chart, joined to Wikimedia pageviews in four Southeast Asian editions
- Window — 2025-08 through 2026-07, 12 months, human traffic only
- Monotonic — yes, the bands run one way; the top band's median is 9.9× the bottom band's.
This is not every Korean celebrity. It is the cast of Korean titles that reached a Netflix country chart, which is the panel the rest of our data is built on. A singer or idol who never appeared in one of those titles is not here.
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What we wrote from this data
- We could not read this question yesterday. Today we changed the instrument and it reads
Median reads of a Korean actor's own Wikipedia article, by how many of their titles reached a Netflix chart: 1.21, 2.15, 4.72, 11.94. Yesterday the same panel gave us nothing, because we were measuring the wrong thing.
14 August 2026