Birth dates and Western sun signs for Hallyu stars, measured from Wikidata (CC0) — nothing invented. Sun signs are actually computed by our judgment engine (astro/ephemeris.js). Names with "See full reading" already have a full BaZi + astrology article; the rest are filled in one by one.
⚠ Each sign is computed from where the Sun actually sat on that person’s birth date (fixed at noon UTC — the Sun sign barely depends on the exact hour). People marked "boundary" were born on a day the Sun changes sign, so the neighboring sign is possible depending on the real birth time. BaZi charts read only three pillars (year/month/day) since the birth hour is unknown — that limit is never hidden here.
We took the birth dates of 281 Korean stars from Wikidata (CC0) and ran our own engine to work out where the Sun actually stood on each of those days. 132 groups are represented. Not one value is invented.
| Sign | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aquarius | 28 | 10.0% |
| Virgo | 28 | 10.0% |
| Taurus | 26 | 9.3% |
| Aries | 25 | 8.9% |
| Capricorn | 25 | 8.9% |
| Leo | 25 | 8.9% |
| Gemini | 24 | 8.5% |
| Libra | 23 | 8.2% |
| Sagittarius | 22 | 7.8% |
| Pisces | 21 | 7.5% |
| Scorpio | 17 | 6.0% |
| Cancer | 17 | 6.0% |
How we counted — all 281 rows of the data file this page itself loads (stardb-data.json).
Aquarius has 28 and Cancer has 17, and it is tempting to write "Aquarius leads". Write that and the reader hears "Aquarians are more likely to become stars." So we measured.
If 281 people were spread evenly across twelve signs, each would hold 23.4. The size of the wobble you get by chance alone (one standard deviation) is 4.6 people. Aquarius at 28 is 1.0 standard deviation above the mean; Cancer at 17 is 1.4 below. Both are ordinary wobble.
We also ran the test that looks at all twelve at once (chi-square). The value came out at 6.27; the line you must cross to say "this is not chance" is 19.68 (11 degrees of freedom, 0.05). It is nowhere near.
⇒ This unevenness is fully explained by chance. 281 is a small number for telling such things apart, and human birthdays are not evenly spread across the months to begin with. So please do not read this table as "this sign is more likely to produce a star." We did not write it that way.
Of the 281, 22 people (7.8%) were born on a day when the sign changes within that same day — the Sun crosses the boundary at some hour of it. For them, the birth time decides which of two neighbouring signs applies. We label that "boundary", because we do not pretend to know what we do not know.
Twenty-two is about one person in thirteen. The familiar "Aries starts 21 March" date tables sort these people the same way every year — even though the real boundary slips by hours from year to year. Our figures come not from a date table but from the Sun's actual position on that day of that year.
A star's birth time is almost never public. Saju has four pillars — year, month, day, hour — and without the hour we can only give three. We do not invent the fourth; we give three and say the hour is unknown. A sun sign barely moves with the hour, so that one we can still give — but a rising sign without a time is impossible: on the same day in the same city, a morning birth and a night birth can be seven signs apart.
⚠ These are published birth dates and what follows from calculating with them. They are a statistic — not the person, and not you. We show how the figures are arrived at; we do not say one sign is better, nor what kind of person you are.