ACTOR

Kang Soo-yeon

1966 - 2022

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Kang Soo-yeon (Korean: 강수연; August 18, 1966 – May 7, 2022) was a South Korean actress. An internationally acclaimed star from the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s, she is often honorifically nicknamed Korea's "first world star". Kang began her acting career as a child and gained national recognition with A High School Student's Diary on KBS 1TV (1983–1984), and the comedy films Whale Hunting 2 (1985) and Mimi and Cheolsu's Youth Sketch (1987). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kang Soo-yeon has received more than 910,041 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Kang Soo-yeon is the 5,375th most popular actor, the 294th most popular biography from South Korea and the 96th most popular South Korean Actor.

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  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kang Soo-yeon ranks 5,375 out of 13,578. Before her are Núria Espert, Karin Baal, Juozas Budraitis, Aras Bulut İynemli, Mary Millar, and Daniel Henney. After her are Freida Pinto, Cindy Williams, Peter Jurasik, Thomas Calabro, Elisabeth Moss, and Beata Poźniak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Kang Soo-yeon ranks 237. Before her are Delphine de Vigan, Ryue Nishizawa, Matthew Labyorteaux, Žarko Paspalj, Jan Boklöv, and Jorge González. After her are Greg Wise, Bruno Labbadia, Marco Antônio da Silva, José Garcia, Lochlyn Munro, and Alka Yagnik. Among people deceased in 2022, Kang Soo-yeon ranks 411. Before her are Vira Vovk, Günter Lamprecht, Ken Starr, Stien Kaiser, Carlos Blixen, and Abuzed Omar Dorda. After her are Manuel Duarte, Naci Erdem, Bernard Cribbins, Leonid Shvartsman, Boris Lagutin, and Angélica Gorodischer.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Kang Soo-yeon ranks 294 out of 1,128. Before her are Jung Hae-in (1988), Nam Joo-hyuk (1994), Ha-Joon Chang (1963), Yi Munyeol (1948), Park Hae-soo (1981), and Namkoong Min (1978). After her are Yoo Jun-sang (1969), Faker (1996), Kim Woo-bin (1989), Seo Taiji (1972), Goo Hara (1991), and Kim Ha-neul (1978).

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Among ACTORS In South Korea

Among actors born in South Korea, Kang Soo-yeon ranks 96. Before her are Shin Min-a (1984), Ahn Bo-hyun (1988), Jung Hae-in (1988), Nam Joo-hyuk (1994), Park Hae-soo (1981), and Namkoong Min (1978). After her are Yoo Jun-sang (1969), Kim Woo-bin (1989), Goo Hara (1991), Kim Ha-neul (1978), Park Eun-bin (1992), and Cho Yeo-jeong (1981).

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Television and Movie Roles

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