(Machine translation)
They counted the number of commercials each figure endorsed.
#7 (3 people tied) Kwak tube, a travel youtuber ; Ahn Bohyun, actor ; Jung Haein, actor
#3 (4 acts tied) Ive, Ahn Yujin (counted separately), Jo Boah, actor; Huh Sungtae, actor
#2 Park Seojun, actor
And, lo and behold,
#1
Guess although the movie Dream bombed, the star statuses of IU and Park Seojun have not changed.
Such is the Korean perspective, which is so myopic that they still consider a 1,344 years old singer as the top model to endorse things.
It is commendable that IVE rose this high to be loved by the Koreans, but some of the names above include actors who are not exactly well known outside of Korea.
It almost seems that the Koreans have learned nothing over 16 years of KPop and still stick on with domesticists, and still do not appreciate the KPop figures which made Korean pop culture supreme in the world.
