(In Korean)
This is a list of singers based in K-O-R-E-A which sold more than a million albums.
A lof of them are singers who were active in the 1990s and early 2000s before KPop. I won't list them.
Singers who have albums which sold more than 1 million copies in Korea - (in order of appearance)
H.O.T
god
(the rest are singers who were active before the KPop era.)
That list is from around the end of Aug 2021. Since then the following acts, in addition for those mentioned above, sold more than 1 million copies
IVE(Likely)
Lim Youngwoong, who is an idol for the over 45 crowd
1st Gen - HOT, GOD
3rd Gen - BTS, EXO, BlackPink , NCT, NCT Dream, Seventeen
4th Gen - txt, enhypen, aespa, IVE, Lim Youngwoong (kind of)
2nd Gen nowhere to be found.
It is said that DBSK and SNSD have million copy albums in Japan but none of them in Korea.
The 2nd Gen arguably worked the most but reaped the least of what they had sown. Truly a silent generation , with the except of a single person who I won't mention here because her name is not in the above who have albums which sold more than a million in Korea.