Yoo Jae-suk
Yoo Jae-suk (born August 14, 1972, Seoul, South Korea), aged 54, is a South Korean comedian, presenter. Notable films include Running Man, Infinite Challenge and Family Outing.
Yoo Jae-suk’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Yoo
Yoo Jae-suk’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
What Yoo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Yoo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Yoo apart
Training came by way of Seoul Institute of the Arts.
The working life starts in 1991, at 19.
On the family side, Yoo Jae-suk was married Na Kyung-eun.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Yoo Jae-suk: South Korean male comedians, Gangneung Yoo clan and People from Gangbuk District.
The same date carries Jay Manuel. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Seoul Institute of the Arts
- Working from
- 1991
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Languages
- Korean
- Wikipedia editions
- 28
What the chart says
Yoo, according to the stars
Core essence
Yoo is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Yoo is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Yoo cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Yoo needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Yoo wants to be loved
Yoo wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Yoo gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Yoo creates
How Yoo makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Yoo creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Yoo is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Yoo is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Yoo fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Yoo's birth date. Working below.
Where Yoo sits
Six lines
Yoo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Yoo Jae-suk
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Seoul on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Seoul that night
Computed for 37.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Seoul at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 7.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 37.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Seoul at all: they sit past the −52.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 27% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual Yoo's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Pluto · 2 planets at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Yoo Jae-suk's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Yoo Jae-suk was born on August 14, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Yoo Jae-suk's birth date, August 14, 1972, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Yoo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yoo Jae-suk's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Earth.
- Yoo Jae-suk combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Yoo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrineSaturn0.1° to 6.8° orb
Yoo’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb
Yoo’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Yoo’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus3.9° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.5° to 6.4° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 1.7° to 14.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Yoo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°26′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°34′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°38′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 19°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Eros trine Venus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.3°
Yoo’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Yoo’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.3°
Born the same day as Yoo
Jay Manuel was born on August 14, 1972 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Seoul, at 37.6°N, nothing below −52.4° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Yoo
Other actors
- Eric Dane1972
- Laverne Cox1972
- Eminem1972
- Scott Foley1972
- Jonny Lee Miller1972
- Jennifer Garner1972
Born in South Korea
- Lim Young-woongSouth Korean singer
- Kim Taek-jinSouth Korean businessman, founder of NCSoft
- Kim Ga-eunSouth Korean actress (born January 1989)
- Soon-Yi Previnwife of Woody Allen
- Son Heung-minSouth Korean association football player
- Lee Ho-jinSouth Korean businessperson
More charts like Yoo’s
Fellow Leo suns
- RayanBrazilian footballer (born 2006)
- Renato VeigaPortuguese footballer (born 2003)
- Diego MoreiraBelgian association football player (born 2004)
Born in Rat years
- Frédéric Joliot-CurieFrench scientist
- Steven ChuAmerican physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
- Elizabeth BlackburnAustralian-American biological researcher
Also born on August 14
- Mila Kunis1983
- Halle Berry1966
- Jay-Jay Okocha1973
- Doechii1998
- Huening Kai2002
- Steve Martin1945
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- FouseyTubeAmerican YouTuber
- Role ModelAmerican singer-songwriter and former rapper
- Ryan TrahanAmerican YouTuber
Other Leo Rat charts
- Ben AffleckAmerican film actor, director and screenwriter
- JD VanceVice President of the United States since 2025
- Sean PennAmerican actor
- Georges CharpakFrench physicist
Other Radiant Architects
- Keshad Johnsoncollege basketball player (2020–2020) San Diego State
- Dru SmithAmerican basketball player
- Adam FlaglerAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Nate BittleAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Leon FleisherAmerican conductor and pianist
- Judith JamisonAmerican dancer and choreographer
- Rui SilvaPortuguese footballer (born 1994)
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Yoo’s cards
Computed from August 14, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yoo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q485905 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yoo Jae-suk at Wikipedia, antenna.co.kr, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yoo Jae-suk.
Quick answers about Yoo Jae-suk’s chart
- How old is Yoo Jae-suk?
- Yoo Jae-suk is 54 years old, born August 14, 1972 in Seoul, South Korea.
- What zodiac sign is Yoo Jae-suk?
- Yoo Jae-suk is a Leo: born August 14, 1972, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Yoo Jae-suk's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 14, 1972 birth.
- What is Yoo Jae-suk's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Yoo Jae-suk's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Yoo Jae-suk's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yoo Jae-suk's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
