ACTOR

Namkoong Min

1978 - Today

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Namkoong Min (Korean: 남궁민, born March 12, 1978) is a South Korean actor, director and screenwriter. He first gained recognition with neo-noir film A Dirty Carnival (2006), and has since given notable performances in Remember (2015–2016), Beautiful Gong Shim (2016), Good Manager (2017), Hot Stove League (2019–2020), and My Dearest (2023). He won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the 2020 SBS Drama Awards for Hot Stove League; the drama also gained Namkoong his third Best Actor nomination at the Baeksang Arts Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Namkoong Min has received more than 3,534,248 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Namkoong Min is the 5,327th most popular actor (down from 5,152nd in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from South Korea (down from 260th in 2019) and the 95th most popular South Korean Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Namkoong Mins by language

Over the past year Namkoong Min has had the most page views in the with 590,952 views, followed by Chinese (276,135), and Japanese (162,528). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malay (552.08%), Italian (251.61%), and Spanish (246.27%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Namkoong Min ranks 5,327 out of 13,578. Before him are Vasily Kachalov, Silas Weir Mitchell, Jennifer Carpenter, Hank Mann, John Stockwell, and Georgi Yumatov. After him are Peyton List, Louis Koo, Kris Wu, John Schneider, Matthew Labyorteaux, and Hans Deppe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Namkoong Min ranks 115. Before him are Paul Anderson, Suthida, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Matthew Goode, Yi So-yeon, and Geremi. After him are John Legend, Janine Jansen, Ivan Leko, Philipp Plein, Matthew Davis, and Fernando Meira.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Namkoong Min ranks 293 out of 1,128. Before him are Yi So-yeon (1978), Jung Hae-in (1988), Nam Joo-hyuk (1994), Ha-Joon Chang (1963), Yi Munyeol (1948), and Park Hae-soo (1981). After him are Kang Soo-yeon (1966), Yoo Jun-sang (1969), Faker (1996), Kim Woo-bin (1989), Seo Taiji (1972), and Goo Hara (1991).

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Among ACTORS In South Korea

Among actors born in South Korea, Namkoong Min ranks 95. Before him are Han So-hee (1994), Shin Min-a (1984), Ahn Bo-hyun (1988), Jung Hae-in (1988), Nam Joo-hyuk (1994), and Park Hae-soo (1981). After him are Kang Soo-yeon (1966), Yoo Jun-sang (1969), Kim Woo-bin (1989), Goo Hara (1991), Kim Ha-neul (1978), and Park Eun-bin (1992).

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Television and Movie Roles

A Dirty Carnival
Nam Min-ho
A small-time thug who collects debts for the local triad is torn between his criminal aspirations and his devotion to family.
Oct 17o 20067.011 / 10
김과장
Kim Sung-Ryong
An accountant who’s deft at embezzling funds becomes an unintentional hero to his colleagues when he gets a new corporate job.
8.344 / 10
닥터 프리즈너
Na Yi-Je
An ace doctor in a university hospital is wrongfully accused of a medical malpractice incident and gets ousted from the hospital. He then applies to work at a prison, where he plans to make personal connections with all the big shots in prison with the ultimate goal of getting revenge against the hospital that kicked him out.
7.1 / 10