Tallest K-pop Idols

How this K-pop height ranking works

This list ranks 30 K-pop idols from tallest to shortest using the height recorded for each one on Wikidata, the open database behind Wikipedia's infoboxes. Wikidata stores height as property P2048, "vertical length of an entity", and each statement can carry a reference saying where the number came from. The list only includes idols who are in this site's database and have such a statement, so think of it as a ranking of well-known idols with a published height, not a complete census of the industry.

That limitation matters, because K-pop heights are some of the least reliable figures in celebrity data. They are rarely measured in public. Many trace back to agency profiles written at debut, when some idols were still teenagers, and they are then copied from site to site. Fan-run profile sites such as Kprofiles are the most visible source, and Wikidata often cites them directly. Where sources disagree, this page says so rather than quietly picking one number.

Group memberships follow each group's Wikipedia article. Shinee's Jonghyun died in December 2017, and Sulli left f(x) in August 2015, four years before her death in 2019.

The men: Enhypen, Exo and a BTS block

The top of the list belongs to two boy-group members from different generations. Heeseung, at 183 cm, was one of the members chosen through the 2020 survival show I-Land that formed Enhypen. Wikipedia reports that his label, Belift Lab, announced his departure on March 10, 2026, citing differences in musical direction, and said he would prepare a solo album. Enhypen carries on as six members, including Jake, who is listed at 176 cm. Kai of Exo is close behind at 182 cm. Exo, formed by SM Entertainment in 2011, has two more members in the top twelve: Suho at 175 cm and Baekhyun at 174 cm.

BTS fills six places in a row, from RM at 181 cm down to Suga at 176 cm. For a seven-member group, a spread of only 5 cm across six members is unusually tight. It also means small disagreements between sources can reshuffle the order. RM's 181 cm is the most consistent figure: his Wikidata statement cites Kprofiles, and Kprofiles still lists 181 cm today. The BTS page compares all seven members in more detail.

Stray Kids' leader Bang Chan, who Wikipedia notes personally picked each member before the group's 2017 reality show, ties with bandmate Lee Know at 172 cm. That puts them level with Le Sserafim's Huh Yun-jin.

The women: IVE at the top

The tallest women on the list are Jang Won-young and An Yu-jin, both at 173 cm and both in IVE. Wikipedia records that they represented Starship Entertainment together on Mnet's Produce 48 in 2018. Jang finished first, and both debuted in the project group Iz*One before returning to Starship to form IVE, which debuted in December 2021. IVE has four members on the list, more than any other girl group: Jang, An, Liz at 171 cm and Leeseo at 165 cm. The IVE page lines up all six members.

Le Sserafim also has a strong presence. Huh Yun-jin (172 cm) and Hong Eun-chae (170 cm) rank near the top. Former member Kim Ga-ram, who left in July 2022 according to Wikipedia, is listed at 170 cm. Kim Chae-won (164 cm) and Sakura Miyawaki (163 cm), both formerly of IzOne, sit lower. Wikidata cites IzOne's official profile pages for both of those heights, which makes them among the better-sourced entries here. See the Le Sserafim page for the full lineup.

All four aespa members appear, from Karina at 167.8 cm down to Ningning at 161 cm, who closes the list. Karina's decimal figure is one of the few on the list given to the millimeter, and it matches Kprofiles exactly. The aespa page compares the quartet side by side.

Group averages on the list

Grouping the entries shows how much of the ranking comes from a few groups. Averages below use only the members who appear on this list. They are not averages of whole groups, since some members have no Wikidata height and are not included.

Among girl groups, IVE stands out. Its four listed members average 170.5 cm, about 6 cm more than aespa's four. Le Sserafim's figure drops once former member Kim Ga-ram is left out, because its two shortest listed members, Kim Chae-won and Sakura Miyawaki, are still in the group. For BLACKPINK, the two listed members are Lisa and Jisoo, 6 cm apart. Adding Rosé's Kprofiles figure of 168.7 cm would raise the group's average, which shows how sensitive these small-sample averages are to who is included.

Where the numbers come from, and where they disagree

Following each figure back to its reference is revealing. Of the Wikidata statements checked for this page, several have no reference at all: Heeseung, Kai, Jang Won-young, An Yu-jin and Bang Chan. Others cite a Kprofiles page, an Iz*One official profile, or in Jisoo's case IMDb. Comparing them with the profile sites they cite turns up a handful of mismatches:

Most of these differences are a centimeter or less, the kind of gap that rounding and conversion between metric and imperial listings can produce. Two are larger. Suga differs by 2 cm. Lisa differs by 1.5 cm, and in her case the Wikidata statement of 168 cm cites a Kprofiles page as its reference, so the fan site seems to have revised its number after Wikidata copied it. Kprofiles also lists Winter with both an "official" and a "real" height. That shows how the industry treats published heights as a profile detail rather than a measurement. This site keeps the Wikidata values so that the ranking rests on a single, citable source, and flags the disagreements here.

Idols versus the average Korean

To put the list in context, compare it with population averages. The NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), which pooled measured heights from population-based studies around the world, estimates that South Korean men born in 1996 average 174.9 cm and South Korean women 162.3 cm. Those are the figures shown on this site's South Korea average height page.

Against those averages:

• The 14 men average 176.9 cm, about 2 cm above the national male average. Heeseung is roughly 8 cm above it, while Jonghyun and Baekhyun at 174 cm and the two Stray Kids members at 172 cm fall slightly below.
• The 16 women average 167.4 cm, about 5 cm above the national female average. Jang Won-young and An Yu-jin are almost 11 cm taller than it, and only Jisoo (162 cm) and Ningning (161 cm) come in just under it.
• Not every idol is Korean. Huh Yun-jin is American, Lisa is Thai, Sakura Miyawaki and Giselle are listed as Japanese, and Ningning is Chinese, so the Korean average is only a rough yardstick for them.

The NCD-RisC study also explains why young Korean idols are taller than older generations of Koreans. It found that South Korean women gained more height than any other group of women in the world over the 20th century, about 20.2 cm between the 1896 and 1996 birth cohorts, moving from the fifth-shortest in the world into the top third. South Korean men gained about 15.2 cm over the same period. The idols on this list, mostly born between 1990 and 2007, belong to the tallest generations Korea has produced.

A century of change in one comparison

The site's NCD-RisC trend data makes the generational shift concrete. South Korean women born in 1896 averaged an estimated 142.2 cm, and men 159.8 cm. By that older yardstick, Jang Won-young at 173 cm would be about 31 cm taller than the average Korean woman born in 1896, and Ningning, the shortest idol here, would still be nearly 19 cm above it. Even the 172 cm men of Stray Kids would have been more than 12 cm above the average man born in 1896.

The idols also hold up against American averages, which the CDC's 2021–2023 NHANES survey sets at 175.1 cm for men and 161.2 cm for women. The men here average about 2 cm more than the US male figure, and the women about 6 cm more than the US female figure. The women's lead over both national averages is the clearer pattern on this list.

Comparing idols with each other and with you

The gap between the top and bottom of this list is 22 cm. Within groups, though, heights are often close, and fans looking at stage photos are mostly judging differences of a few centimeters, which shoes, posture and camera angle can easily hide or exaggerate.

To see the real differences, load any two idols into the 3D height comparison tool and add your own height for scale. The K-pop hub collects every group page on the site, and the tallest lists hub ranks idols alongside presidents, athletes and actors.