The Most Famous
CELEBRITIES from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 181 Celebrities, 2 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 25th most number of Celebrities behind Egypt and Turkey.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Celebrities of all time. This list of famous South Korean Celebrities is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Kim Ung-yong (1963 - )
With an HPI of 50.91, Kim Ung-yong is the most famous South Korean Celebrity. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Kim Ung-Yong (Korean: 김웅용; born March 8, 1962) is a South Korean civil engineer. During his youth, he was recognized as a child prodigy with the highest recorded IQ having scored above 210 on the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale.
2. Choi Yeo-jin (1983 - )
With an HPI of 32.97, Choi Yeo-jin is the 2nd most famous South Korean Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Choi Yeo-jin (Korean: 최여진; born July 27, 1983) is a South Korean-Canadian model-turned-actress.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as celebrities born between 1963 and 1983. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living celebrities include Kim Ung-yong and Choi Yeo-jin. As of April 2022, 1 new celebrities have been added to Pantheon including Choi Yeo-jin.
