Does the year someone was born pick out who ends up on a Netflix chart?
1047 actors. Chance would put 87.3 in each sign. The count runs from 76 to 103.
Why it is worth counting at all: in a 2026 national survey of 1,200 people aged 13 to 69, 62.3% of Koreans said they had had their fortune read at least once, and the country has 15,853 registered fortune-telling businesses. The article explains what they are looking at.
| Animal year | Actors | Share | Against 87.3 expected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat | 89 | 8.5% | +1.7 |
| Ox | 82 | 7.8% | -5.3 |
| Tiger | 78 | 7.4% | -9.3 |
| Rabbit | 86 | 8.2% | -1.3 |
| Dragon | 90 | 8.6% | +2.7 |
| Snake | 76 | 7.3% | -11.3 |
| Horse | 77 | 7.4% | -10.3 |
| Goat | 91 | 8.7% | +3.7 |
| Monkey | 91 | 8.7% | +3.7 |
| Rooster | 92 | 8.8% | +4.7 |
| Dog | 103 | 9.8% | +15.7 |
| Pig | 92 | 8.8% | +4.7 |
People. One row is one actor, counted once. Listed in the order of the cycle, not by size.
Chi-square 7.77 against a 5% threshold of 19.68. The distribution is indistinguishable from chance.
A flat distribution says the birth year does not select who reaches a chart. It says nothing about what a reading means to the person who has one, which is not a thing a count can reach.
A full saju needs the hour of birth. Public profiles carry dates and almost never hours, so we can count how a thousand actors are distributed and we cannot produce any one of their charts.
The Korean year turns in early February, not on 1 January, so anyone born in January or February may belong to the previous animal. Those people are left without a sign rather than given the wrong one.
| Age at first credited work | Actors |
|---|---|
| Lower quarter begins | 18 |
| Median | 21 |
| Upper quarter begins | 23 |
Measured on 760 actors whose first working year is recorded. Half of them started between 18 and 23.
How far an actor's titles travel · Who gets looked up · How we count
The animal year and saju are two different things, and Koreans use both. We counted the animal years of 1,047 Korean actors who reached a Netflix chart: chance would put 87.3 in each sign, and the count runs 76 to 103.
10 August 2026