How tall is So-dam Park

Jackie Lee said on 24/Mar/22
I've noticed that Korean celebs are significantly taller than Japanese according to Google heights.

PYoo810 said on 4/Nov/20
@Editor Rob,

It would be worthy, if you started adding more K-stars. Your site and estimations are very very well done.
Plus, even if there exists some obscure Korean site like this, most of us don't read the language :(

Please start adding more koreans, editor rob. They're the REAL controversial fellas, when it comes to heights haha

You could start with people like
Gong Yoo
Kim Nam Gil
Ha Jung Woo
Ji Chang Wook
Lee Dong Wook
Lee Jong Suk
Lee Seung Gi
Song Kang Ho
Choi Woo Sik
Lee Sung Kyun

.. to name a famous few.

Cheers. And great great work on the site, it's a delight to visit :)

PYoo810 said on 4/Nov/20
@Editor Rob,

It would be worthy, if you started adding more K-stars. Your site and estimations are very very well done.
Plus, even if there exists some obscure Korean site like this, most of us don't read the language :(

Please start adding more koreans, editor rob. They're the REAL controversial fellas, when it comes to heights haha

179Guy15yrOld said on 13/Oct/20
@PYoo810
The way that late 178 - 179 cm men get inflated to 180 cm is similar to how the majority of celebs in the 5'11 - 5'11 1/2 range get inflated to 6 feet in Hollywood for instance. Its honestly a challenge to gauge the heights of korean celebs in particular because a lot of the low- mid 180ers still use lifts, and added to how a lot of the high 170ers are put to 180cm since that is the metric version of the 6 foot milestone, it is then we get 182 - 185 cm people get inflated to 185 - 190 cm. Ex. Tvxq changmin listed on some sites as 190 cm which is laughable because he is 183cm, and of course an example of dong wook getting inflated 3 cm. Sadly, the only pictures really of these korean celebs are of themselves with each other, which isn't trustworthy as a lot of them wear shoe inserts. I wonder if there are some Korean height forums that gauge the heights of korean celeb heights somewhere in the depths of the internet, if so it would be very interesting to see.

PYoo810 said on 4/Oct/20
@179Guy,

Yes, absolutely. Most of the (180-183)-ers are clearly (178/179)-ers who have been bumped up by their agencies. And yes, Lee Dong Wook, a max 182cm guy is now 185 XD. He wears heals and insoles VERY often, as evidenced by the unnatural bulging of his ankles all the time. He's not the only one, definitely. Just see any premiere photo.

It's about time a legit, precise, no nonsense site like this started estimating some Korean heights for once. Pretty sure most of them would come down to a lot lower level than before haha.
I'm a huge fan of Korean cinema, and the actors are super talented. But come on, the heights listed are legit funny XD

179Guy15yrOld said on 29/Sep/20
Yeah @PYoo810 If you look at google on male korean celebs, a lot of them seemed to go from 1.83/1.84 depending on the source to frickin 190 cm/6'3. Also Lee Dong Wook got inflated once more to 185 cm, I think it's time we get onto some of these guys' actual heights

PYoo810 said on 26/Sep/20
Editor Rob, PLEASE add more South Korean actors? Most of their Google heights are just.. Baffling. Need some legit estimates. Please add them when you canm

PYoo810 said on 4/Aug/20
I can understand why there are so few South Korean actors around here. Height is a BIG, BIG deal. As @GDragon aptly said, even 184/185-ers wear heels and insoles on the red carpet. And pretty much all of them are overlisted on google (upto 188cm), by at least 1/1.5 inches.

Based on hordes of photos and movies I've seen, I'd say,

Lee Min Ho - 185cm (wears heels often)
Gong Yoo- Solid 184 (ONE person not overlisted on google)
Song Kang Ho- 177
Choi Woo Shik - 178/9
Dong Seok Ma- 175
Jun Jae Young - 180
Lee Byung Hun - 173/173.5 (avid lift wearer)
Park Seo Joon - 183/4
Won Bin - 178 (one more, not overlisted)


Editor Rob, please try and add some of the more famous ones at least, here. The S. Korean actors are the most contentious, when it comes to heights. Please please please add some more, especially people like Song Kang Ho, Gong Yoo, etc.

- Huge fan, Paul

Gdragon said on 6/Mar/20
Guessing heights for Korean actors is the most difficult thing to do as almost everyone is wearing shoe lifts - even the ones that do not need it. A general rule is to subtract 2 inches off their listed height, unless they are considered "ugly tall" according to Korean standards. For girls that would be above 5 ft 7 (used to be 5 ft 5) and for boys 6 feet 2. In that case they round down.

Chris Junior Hernandez 1990 said on 5/Mar/20
In Train to Busan there is a scene 5'9 Ma Dong-seok ask how tall is Woo-shik and he answer 5'11 1/4. I guess he wouldn't be much lower than his claim in that movie since 5'10 claim Dong-seok nailed by Rob 5'9 listing. Lowest 5'10 1/4 and highest 5'10 3/4 would be a nice listing if Rob added him.

east asin about 6ft said on 5/Mar/20
hi rob i've been always wondering this : when you update a celebrity, how many photos do you watch?

Tall Sam said on 3/Mar/20
I think Woo-shik looks a pretty good candidate for a 5'10.5" listing.

Peter175 said on 1/Mar/20
@Chris Junior Hernandez 1990 Yeah Chris upon looking more at them I think I can believe 179 for him. But in the film he didn't really appear more than a 5'10" range guy with her.

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He looks 181 easily in this photo since she's in heels, but I think he has a slight tilt and she might be dropping height. He is listed at 181 and even if that is believed, Kang-Ho Song is still not above 5'10

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In this one he looks around 178.
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Around 178 here
Overall I think he's between 5'10 and 5'11. But I wouldn't rule out him using lifts on the red carpet or him.
Also Nik Ashton, she is not tallish! She is very average

Nik Ashton said on 29/Feb/20
She’s tallish!

Chris Junior Hernandez 1990 said on 29/Feb/20
@Peter175 Looking more on Woo-shik is at least 5'10 1/2 with Park So-dam.

Peter175 said on 27/Feb/20
Thanks so much for adding her! Yeah, I knew her 5'5" listing wasn't right. She might be around 5'4-5'4.5. She looks shorter than a lot of actresses in Korea.

Koreans (Especially Korean actors) are significantly taller than what most westerners consider as East asian heights. Would be willing to bet outside of the few super tall actors in Hollywood (6'4-5) the median for Korean male actors is probably the same as hollywood.

In Japan, the male actors are shorter and reflect the population better (5'6-10) while in Korea guys like Byung hun lee who Rob has at 5'9" is probably one of the shortest. Yet he is still taller than someone like Tom cruise or RDJ.

In China, taller actresses is more in style and many of the leading ladies are 5'5"+(which is tall, since the average female in china is shorter than japan and korea at around 5'2")

Anyway, I was wondering their heights on parasite
Cho Yeo-jeong looks around 161-162(she plays the rich mother)
Choi Woo-shik is listed as 180, but I think 178 is better. (he plays the son)
Kang-Ho Song(the dad) is also listed as 180, but he looks shorter than that(maybe 176-77)

Chris Junior Hernandez 1990 said on 27/Feb/20
Surprise that Rob list her only 5'4. I did have thought she could be at least 5'4 1/2.

Tall Sam said on 27/Feb/20
Good to see some Parasite actors getting listings here. She is a lovely girl and excellent in that film too.

It would be nice to get a listing for Kang-Ho Song, who is a huge star in South Korea and headlined a lot of the biggest Korean movies from the last couple decades. Would you consider adding him? I would say near Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, that Song looks right around the 5'10" mark. Click Here