Pop Culture & Entertainment

The Tallest Female K-pop and K-drama Stars

The tallest female K-pop idols and Korean drama actresses, ranked by the height the Korean press reports for each star or, failing that, the figure on her listed profile. Four idols share first place at 178 cm, including former LPG leader Hanyoung, and Lee Sung-kyoung is the tallest actress at 176 cm.

LPG's music video for “Can Can,” featuring Hanyoung

Pictured: LPG’s 2005 music video for “Can Can,” a group video featuring Hanyoung, joint #1 at 178 cm.

Rank Name Height Height (ft/in) Field Group or best-known work Height basis
1Hanyoung178 cm5′10″K-pop idolEx-LPGProfile / press
1Hanbit178 cm5′10″K-pop idolEx-MercuryListed profile only
1Jung Yoon-hye178 cm5′10″K-pop idolEx-FANATICSListed profile only
1Myung Sa-rang178 cm5′10″K-pop idolEx-Baby V.O.X Re.VListed profile only
5Go Mal-sook177 cm5′10″K-pop idolOSDSProfile / press
5ChaeLin177 cm5′10″K-pop idolNew-LListed profile only
5iTO177 cm5′10″K-pop idolEx-NEO-ASFiKListed profile only
5Sebeen177 cm5′10″K-pop idolALICE SYNDROMEListed profile only
9Lee Sung-kyoung176 cm5′9″ActressIt’s Okay, That’s Love; Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-jooProfile / press
9Lee Sem176 cm5′9″K-pop idolEx-9MUSESListed profile only
9Jang Yun-seo176 cm5′9″ActressThe Fugitive: Plan B; Miss Korea 2006Listed profile only
9K176 cm5′9″K-pop idolFanxy RedListed profile only
9Lacky176 cm5′9″K-pop idolPerfumeListed profile only
9Liyah176 cm5′9″K-pop idolMIXXListed profile only
9Marco176 cm5′9″K-pop idolFanxy RedListed profile only
9Sooah176 cm5′9″K-pop idolEx-LPGListed profile only
9Sung Yu-kyung176 cm5′9″K-pop idolG.U.YListed profile only

As of October 2026. Hardly any of these heights has been measured in public. Almost all of them come from profiles: the fan-run kpopping database for idols and Korean Wikipedia for actresses, which repeat what agencies, the stars themselves or the press have put out.[1][2] How we ranked: as in our ranking of the tallest male K-pop and K-drama stars, a height a star has given herself on the record would come first, but none of the women here has done so in any reporting we could find. Next comes a figure reported in the Korean press, marked “Profile / press”; where sources disagree, the lower well-supported figure is used, which puts Hanyoung at 178 cm rather than her listed 179 cm.[3] Everyone else is ranked on her listed profile alone and marked “Listed profile only”: we searched the Korean and English-language press for every star in the Top 10 and found nothing to confirm or contradict those figures, so allow a centimeter or two either way.[12] Feet-and-inch values are rounded to the nearest inch. The list covers living women who are current or former members of a K-pop group, of any nationality, and South Korean actresses. As on the male list, models, TV personalities and solo musicians are left out, which excludes model and TV personality Hong Jin-kyung and runway model Song Kyung-a (both listed at 180 cm), 19 other fashion models and two TV personalities listed at 178 or 179 cm, and solo rapper Lee Young-ji (176 cm). Actress Jung Chae-yul, listed at 177 cm, died in 2023.[2][13] The table stops at 176 cm. About 20 more idols and actresses are listed at 175 cm, and today’s best-known tall idols, IVE’s Jang Wonyoung and An Yujin, are both listed at 173 cm.[1] Where the data comes from: the rows are from DabPop’s rankings of the tallest female K-pop idols and the tallest female Korean celebrities (heights as listed on October 12, 2026), which take idols’ heights from kpopping and other entertainers’ from Korean Wikipedia.[1][2] RList merged the two lists, removed the stars who appear on both, kept only idols and actresses, and checked the Top 10 against the press. For the full lists, models and TV personalities included, see the rankings there.

The Top 10

#1 (tie)

Hanyoung — 178 cm

Before she sang, Hanyoung placed in the 1998 Super Elite Model contest and studied sports modeling at Dongduk Women’s University. She then led LPG, a trot-dance girl group whose name stood for “Long Pretty Girls,” through its 2005 debut with “Can Can” until she left in 2008, and later moved into acting, TV hosting and home shopping.[4] Her kpopping profile and a “star pictorial” feature give 179 cm, but when she and her husband, trot singer Park Goon, appeared on SBS’s Same Bed, Different Dreams 2 in 2023, they called themselves the “88 couple” for their 8-year age gap and 8 cm height gap, and the press put them at 178 cm and 170 cm.[1][3] Two of her LPG bandmates are also listed at 175 cm or more.[1]

#1 (tie)

Hanbit — 178 cm

Choi Han-bit, who performed as Hanbit, led Mercury, a girl group that kpopping now lists as disbanded, and also sang and danced in it. Her profile there gives Gangneung as her birthplace and 1987 as her birth year.[1] She shares first place on that listed height alone: we found no interview or Korean press report that gives a figure for her.

#1 (tie)

Jung Yoon-hye — 178 cm

Jung Yoon-hye danced, sang and rapped in FANATICS, a FENT girl group that debuted in August 2019 with the EP The Six and its lead single “Sunday,” and was active until 2024.[1][5] Like Hanbit, she is ranked on her kpopping height, which we could not find repeated in the press.

#1 (tie)

Myung Sa-rang — 178 cm

The main rapper of Baby V.O.X Re.V, a DR Music spin-off of the girl group Baby V.O.X, Myung was one of its five original members, unveiled in December 2006. She left in 2007 to concentrate on her studies.[1][6] Her 178 cm is the figure on her kpopping profile; no press report we found confirms it.

#5 (tie)

Go Mal-sook — 177 cm

Better known as a YouTuber, Go Mal-sook joined OSDS, a four-member EDM girl group that came together through the YouTube channel Kkondaehee. It released its first single, “Bluetooth,” in April 2025 and played its first stage at EDC Korea in Incheon.[7] She is the only star at 177 cm whose height also appears in the press: a 2024 Unicorn Factory profile of her gave 177 cm.[7] Her bandmate DJ Suvin, formerly Subin of Dalshabet, is listed at 174 cm.[1]

#5 (tie)

ChaeLin — 177 cm

ChaeLin is the main rapper and youngest member of New-L, a girl group that debuted under I-Star Entertainment in September 2024. Her 177 cm comes from her kpopping profile.[1]

#5 (tie)

iTO — 177 cm

iTO was a member of NEO-ASFiK, a group from the IDOL Atelier project that debuted in May 2023 and broke up two years later.[8] Her kpopping profile gives her height but not her nationality.[1]

#5 (tie)

Sebeen — 177 cm

The bassist of ALICE SYNDROME, a four-piece rock girl band from D-Nation Entertainment, Sebeen made her debut on July 25, 2026 with the single “Deep Dive,” less than three months before this list was compiled. That makes her the newest arrival in the Top 10.[1][9]

#9 (tie)

Lee Sung-kyoung — 176 cm

The tallest actress on the list worked as a fashion model before her drama debut in SBS’s It’s Okay, That’s Love in 2014, and a Seoul Shinmun interview that year gave her height as 176 cm.[10] Two years later she played the title role in MBC’s Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo, a 21-year-old weightlifter at a sports university.[10]

#9 (tie)

Lee Sem — 176 cm

Lee Sem was the main rapper of 9MUSES, the Star Empire group that debuted in 2010 and was sold as “model idols”: the Korean press noted that its core members were all over 170 cm and had come from modeling.[1][11] She left the group in January 2014, after “Dolls” and the rest of its 2013 releases.[11] In DabPop’s full idol ranking, four more former 9MUSES members are listed at 173 to 175 cm, the most of any group.[1]

K-pop K-drama Celebrities People Records

Sources

Sourcing note: celebrity heights are often self-reported or set by agencies, and profiles can be inflated or deflated. This ranking uses a figure reported in the Korean press wherever one exists and otherwise the height on a star’s listed profile, marked as such in the table. None of the women here has stated her own height on the record in any reporting we found, and no height on this list comes from an official measurement.

  1. DabPop, “The Tallest Female K-Pop Idols” (heights as listed on October 12, 2026, from each idol’s kpopping profile; source of every idol row in the table and of the group details above) — https://dabpop.co/posts/tallest-female-k-pop-idols.
  2. DabPop, “The Tallest Female Korean Celebrities” (heights as listed on October 12, 2026, from Korean Wikipedia or kpopping; source of the actress rows and of the models, TV personalities and musicians left out) — https://dabpop.co/posts/tallest-female-korean-celebrities.
  3. Ilgan Sports (February 2023), on SBS’s Same Bed, Different Dreams 2: Park Goon 170 cm, Hanyoung 178 cm, the “88 couple” — isplus.com; OSEN on the same broadcast (8 years and 8 cm apart) — osen.co.kr; a “star pictorial” feature on Hanyoung giving 179 cm — news.jkn.co.kr.
  4. The Fact, “한영, LPG 출발 후 ‘연기+MC’ 이어 ‘홈쇼핑 완판녀’ 등극까지 [TF확대경]” — news.tf.co.kr; Seoul Shinmun, “그룹 ‘LPG’ 트로트붐 터트릴까” (August 25, 2005) — seoul.co.kr; English Wikipedia, “LPG (South Korean group)” — en.wikipedia.org.
  5. English Wikipedia, “Fanatics (group)” (debut August 6, 2019 with The Six and “Sunday”; active 2019–2024) — en.wikipedia.org.
  6. English Wikipedia, “Baby Vox Re.V” (original members unveiled December 2006; Myung Sa-rang’s 2007 departure) — en.wikipedia.org.
  7. MBC Entertainment News on OSDS’s debut single “Bluetooth” and its EDC Korea stage — enews.imbc.com; Kprofiles, OSDS profile (debut April 24, 2025) — kprofiles.com; Unicorn Factory (April 2024), profile of Go Mal-sook (177 cm) — unicornfactory.co.kr.
  8. Kprofiles, IDOL Atelier profile (NEO-ASFiK, May 2023 – May 2025) — kprofiles.com.
  9. Kprofiles, “Alice Syndrome Members Profile” (D-Nation Entertainment; debut July 25, 2026 with “Deep Dive”; Sebeen on bass) — kprofiles.com.
  10. Seoul Shinmun, “이성경 ‘괜사’ 같은 작품 다시 만날 수 없을 듯” (September 25, 2014; 176 cm) — seoul.co.kr; MBC Entertainment News on Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (premiere November 16, 2016) — enews.imbc.com; TenAsia (November 2016) — tenasia.co.kr.
  11. Sports Kyunghyang, “기럭지만큼 우월한 사운드 ‘군통령의 재발견’” (October 30, 2013; 9MUSES’ core members over 170 cm and former models) — sports.khan.co.kr; Soompi, “Lee Sem and Eunji Are Leaving Nine Muses and Starting Individual Activities” — soompi.com.
  12. Rows 11–17 (not written up above): every height is the listed profile figure from DabPop’s rankings. Jang Yun-seo, Korean Wikipedia (176 cm, via [2]); her background as 2006 Miss Korea runner-up (“sun”) and her dramas, including The Fugitive: Plan B, from Twig24 (July 10, 2026) — twig24.com. K and Marco (Fanxy Red), Lacky (Perfume), Liyah (MIXX), Sooah (LPG) and Sung Yu-kyung (G.U.Y), kpopping (176 cm each, via [1]). We found no press report confirming any of these seven heights.
  13. Segye Ilbo (April 12, 2023), on the death of actress Jung Chae-yul — segye.com.