The Most Famous
CELEBRITIES from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 265 Celebrities, 2 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 30th most number of Celebrities behind Egypt, and Nepal.
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 (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 63.01, Kim Ung-yong is the most famous South Korean Celebrity. His biography has been translated into 31 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, He entered university at the age of 4. At 7, he received an invitation to work at NASA. By the age of 5, he already spoke 5 languages.
2. Choi Yeo-jin (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 43.43, Choi Yeo-jin is the 2nd most famous South Korean Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Choi Yeo-jin (Korean: 최여진; born July 27, 1983) is a South Korean-Canadian model-turned-actress.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as South Korean celebrities born between 1963 and 1983. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South Korean celebrities include Kim Ung-yong, and Choi Yeo-jin. As of April 2024, 2 new South Korean celebrities have been added to Pantheon including Kim Ung-yong, and Choi Yeo-jin.
