Searching for famous graduates.

For some reason I landed on the Hampyeong county Wikipedia page the other day, and saw that somebody added a line about Hakdari High School and its famous graduates. While trying to learn more about this I found an interesting feature on Naver: the ability to search notable people by the schools they attended. The search turns up 5 for Hakdari HS, and I don’t really recognize any of them. I was kinda hoping for a pop star or two. The most notable person is Lee Yong-sup, Minister of Construction and Transportation since December, 2006.

To find out how prestigious your school’s graduates are, do a people search on Naver and select 출신학교 from the drop-down menu. The search will also turn up public servants, doctors, and the like.

Gangjin High School (강진고등학교) produced one notable person, the actor 박노식, who was in movies like The Host and 200 Pound Beauty. Maesan High School (매산고등학교), a private Presbyterian school in Suncheon, turns up 58 names (a lot of public servants, lawyers, and businessmen). Daewon Foreign Language High School (대원외국어고등학교), one of the most prestigious high schools in the country, turns up 14 names, including actors and singers, and Gwangju's International High School (국제고등학교) turns up three, including the insufferable Mun Geun-yeong and the model 조희.



Mun Geun-yeong, the "nation's little sister" and spawn of Gwangju's Kukje H.S. Her most notable film role is 어린이신부, in which she plays a high school student betrothed to her cousin.