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Seung-Hui Cho

1984 - 2007

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Seung-Hui Cho (Korean: 조승희, Korean name ordering Cho Seung-hui; January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a South Korean mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. This killing is the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, and was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seung-Hui Cho has received more than 5,698,896 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Seung-Hui Cho is the 250th most popular extremist (down from 219th in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from South Korea (up from 559th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South Korean Extremist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Seung-Hui Chos by language

Over the past year Seung-Hui Cho has had the most page views in the with 629,368 views, followed by Korean (96,262), and Japanese (29,571). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (861.18%), Italian (290.00%), and Icelandic (98.54%)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Seung-Hui Cho ranks 250 out of 283. Before him are Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Hamza bin Laden, Karla Homolka, Javed Iqbal, Vlado Taneski, and Charles Ng. After him are Tohir Yoʻldosh, Mohammed Bouyeri, Baitullah Mehsud, Ziad Jarrah, Stuart Christie, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Seung-Hui Cho ranks 201. Before him are Johnny Leoni, Jesús Gil Manzano, Faouzi Chaouchi, José Holebas, Leyla Aliyeva, and Zhang Zilin. After him are Danay García, Dennis Kipruto Kimetto, Darren Fletcher, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Tayanna, and Marcin Gortat. Among people deceased in 2007, Seung-Hui Cho ranks 391. Before him are Charles Lane, Tron Øgrim, Gino Pariani, Grégory Lemarchal, Ruth Graham, and Hughie Thomasson. After him are Dan Fogelberg, Kitty Carlisle, William Ferguson, Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, Richard Jeni, and Satymkul Dzhumanazarov.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Seung-Hui Cho ranks 497 out of 1,128. Before him are Park Chang-sun (1954), Viktor An (1985), Seo Jung-won (1970), Yeon Woo-jin (1984), Ahn Byeong-keun (1962), and Yeo Jin-goo (1997). After him are Dahyun (1998), Daesung (1989), Ki Hong Lee (1986), Shindong (1985), Seol Ki-hyeon (1979), and Choi Woo-shik (1990).

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Among EXTREMISTS In South Korea

Among extremists born in South Korea, Seung-Hui Cho ranks 2. Before him are Yoo Young-chul (1970).

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