Which Korean actors English readers looked up most
Between 5 Jul – 3 Aug 2026, English Wikipedia readers opened the pages of 1,008 Korean actors 7,463,168 times. Here are the 50 they read about most — not who is most popular, but who was most looked up.
1,008actors measured
30days
7.5mpage views
336had no English page
Most looked up, 5 Jul – 3 Aug 2026
Total English Wikipedia page views over the 30-day window, human traffic only. Showing the top 50 of 1,008 measured.
- So Ji-sub233,542 views · 7,785/day · 5 titles in our roster
- Steven Yeun106,201 views · 3,540/day · 1 title in our roster
- Nam Joo-hyuk101,843 views · 3,512/day · 2 titles in our roster
- Roh Yoon-seo100,832 views · 3,477/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Kim Mu-yeol89,613 views · 2,987/day · 10 titles in our roster
- Park Eun-bin85,503 views · 2,948/day · 5 titles in our roster
- Choi Dae-hoon83,936 views · 2,798/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Son Na-eun78,075 views · 2,603/day · 3 titles in our roster
- Jisoo76,744 views · 2,558/day · 1 title in our roster
- Joo Sang-wook72,365 views · 2,495/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Yoon Kyung-ho68,496 views · 2,283/day · 6 titles in our roster
- Seo In-guk65,727 views · 2,191/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Byeon Woo-seok62,920 views · 2,097/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Cha Eun-woo61,857 views · 2,133/day · 5 titles in our roster
- Heo Nam-jun59,515 views · 2,052/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Kim Go-eun58,545 views · 2,019/day · 9 titles in our roster
- Ji Chang-wook55,492 views · 1,850/day · 5 titles in our roster
- Lee Byung-hun54,309 views · 1,873/day · 19 titles in our roster
- Kim Soo-hyun52,725 views · 1,818/day · 8 titles in our roster
- Kim Sae-ron52,018 views · 1,734/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Lim Ji-yeon50,713 views · 1,690/day · 9 titles in our roster
- Yang Se-jong50,507 views · 1,684/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Lee Jong-suk49,868 views · 1,662/day · 6 titles in our roster
- Hwang In-youp49,217 views · 1,641/day · 2 titles in our roster
- N48,116 views · 1,659/day · 3 titles in our roster
- Son Ye-jin47,755 views · 1,592/day · 8 titles in our roster
- Shin Min-a47,676 views · 1,589/day · 7 titles in our roster
- Lee Dong-wook47,541 views · 1,639/day · 7 titles in our roster
- Song Hye-kyo47,089 views · 1,624/day · 5 titles in our roster
- Gong Yoo46,663 views · 1,609/day · 8 titles in our roster
- Jin Ki-joo46,405 views · 1,600/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Go Youn-jung44,384 views · 1,530/day · 7 titles in our roster
- Lee Hye-ri43,959 views · 1,516/day · 3 titles in our roster
- Ma Dong-seok43,207 views · 1,440/day · 18 titles in our roster
- Song Joong-ki43,173 views · 1,439/day · 8 titles in our roster
- Cho Seung-woo43,138 views · 1,488/day · 6 titles in our roster
- Namkoong Min42,824 views · 1,427/day · 2 titles in our roster
- Jun Ji-hyun42,310 views · 1,459/day · 7 titles in our roster
- Lee Min-ho41,719 views · 1,439/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Kim Woo-bin41,104 views · 1,370/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Jung Ho-yeon39,865 views · 1,375/day · 2 titles in our roster
- Hyun Bin38,141 views · 1,271/day · 8 titles in our roster
- Kim Seon-ho37,450 views · 1,291/day · 3 titles in our roster
- Ha Yoon-kyung36,555 views · 1,261/day · 5 titles in our roster
- Ok Taec-yeon36,283 views · 1,251/day · 3 titles in our roster
- Jin Seon-kyu35,231 views · 1,174/day · 13 titles in our roster
- Park Bo-gum34,162 views · 1,178/day · 4 titles in our roster
- Bae Suzy33,713 views · 1,124/day · 8 titles in our roster
- Yoo In-na33,698 views · 1,162/day · 3 titles in our roster
- Park Seo-joon33,217 views · 1,107/day · 8 titles in our roster
What we wrote from this data
- Korean viewing is winner-take-all. Attention on the people in it is not.
One Netflix title is 21.3% of all Korean viewing. The most looked-up Korean actor is 3.1% of all attention. And within the fifty most-searched, appearing in more charting titles does not predict being looked up more.
7 August 2026 · corrected
- Appearing in more Netflix hits raises a Korean actor's floor, not their ceiling
Actors in six to nine charting Korean titles are looked up seven times as often as those in one. But the busiest are not the most looked-up: Lee Byung-hun has 19 charting titles and 54,309 views; Steven Yeun has one and 106,201.
7 August 2026
- Almost every Korean title on Netflix shares an actor with almost every other. Removing the 100 busiest barely dents it.
Of 660 Korean titles with a recorded cast, 639 form a single connected body through shared actors. We expected a few very busy people to be holding it together. Take out the 100 busiest and 93.5% is still one piece.
7 August 2026
- Rank Korean musicians by how often people look them up, and the person at the top is there for his acting
154 of the 1,545 individuals in our K-pop panel also appear in Korean titles that reached a Netflix Top 10. They are 10% of the names and 32.6% of the attention. Removing them does not correct the list. It produces a second one.
7 August 2026
- Every credited name in Parasite appears in another charting Korean title. In The Influencer, none of them do.
Across 297 Korean productions with five or more recorded cast, the median has 16.7% of its cast appearing in nothing else that charted. The spread runs from 0% to 100%, and it separates prestige work from reality and youth casting.
7 August 2026
Where these numbers come from
- Wikimedia Pageviews API — daily English Wikipedia article views for each actor, summed over 5 Jul – 3 Aug 2026. Automated and spider traffic is excluded by the API itself; these are human reads.
- Wikidata — the roster is built from cast lists (P161) filtered to Korean citizenship (P27), so who counts as a Korean actor is decided by the data, not by us.
Attention is not popularity. A page is opened for good news and bad — a premiere, a casting, an award, a scandal, a death. We publish the count and the window it covers. We do not publish a reason, because the count does not contain one, and we do not rank anyone by how fast their views spiked.
A missing actor is not an unread one. 336 of the1,344 performers in our roster have no English Wikipedia article and cannot be measured this way at all. We use no photographs; the only images on this site are charts we built from numbers we counted.
Counts from the Wikimedia Pageviews API. Updated 2026. 8. 6. 오전 5:35:00 KST.
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