Gallup Korea’s 21st Century Survey

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    BTS, 21st Century's 'Best National Singer/Group' #1... 2nd Place Cho Yong-pil

    Seoul = News 1) Reporter Tae-Hyeon Ahn = The group BTS has won the title of 'Best National Singer' of the 21st century. According to an online survey (sampling error ±3.0% points at a 95% confidence level) conducted by Gallup Korea from the 19th to the 23rd by Star News to commemorate its 20th anniversary, targeting 1,052 men and women aged 19 to 69 nationwide, BTS was selected as the 'Best National Singer/Group' with 43% of the votes. BTS, which debuted in June 2013, has grown into a world-class artist by dominating the US Billboard charts. Although the members are currently on hiatus due to military service, BTS's influence in the popular music industry is still considered to be strong. Second place went to Yong-Pil Cho with 33% of the votes. Yong-Pil Cho is a 'living legend' who led the original 'oppa unit' in the 1980s. Before BTS appeared, she was considered the singer who best fit the title of 'nation'. IU ranked 3rd. IU recorded 19% of the votes. She was followed by Lim Young-woong (18%) in 4th place, Na Hoon-a (17%) in 5th place, Blackpink (9%) in 6th place, and Lee Mi-ja (7%) in 7th place. Seo Taiji, Girls' Generation, and god (all 6%) tied for 8th place.


    IU won first place in the 'Most Loved K-Pop Solo Singer of the 21st Century' category. IU took first place with 48% of the votes in the 'Most Loved K-Pop Solo Singer (Based on Debuts Since 2000)' survey (2 multiple responses).

    Psy took second place with 36% of the votes. Big Bang's G-Dragon took third place with 23% of the votes.

    Lee Hyori (18%) and BTS' Jungkook (14%) were ranked fourth and fifth, respectively. BoA (12%) followed in sixth place, Rain and Girls' Generation's Taeyeon (both 7%) tied for seventh place, and BTS' Jimin and Park Jae Bum (both 5%) tied for ninth place.

    Lim Young Woong took the title of 'Best Trot Singer of the 21st Century'. Lim Young Woong answered the question, 'Who is the most loved trot singer based on new song releases in the 21st century?' In the survey (2 multiple responses), she received the most support with 62% of the votes.

    Jang Yoon-jung took 2nd place. Na Hoon-a came in 3rd, Song Ga-in in 4th place, and Kim Yeon-ja in 5th place. Nam Jin and Lee Chan-won tied for 6th place, Hong Jin-young and Young Tak tied for 8th place, and Tae Jin-ah in 10th place also showed their presence by making it into the top 10

    Oh this is gonna anger so many people who daily write obituaries about the end of BTS in Korea due to their "bad rep with gp"


    Let me tag WhyKnock

    Jungkookie making it to top 5 in the idol list with just 1 album release and officially debuting a year ago...also being the youngest.


    And Jimin top 10, after all that hate and claims that BTS have no individual name recognition in SK!!!

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    When they say 19th to 23rd as period of survey do they mean August...as in the midst of Kmedia and Kpop stans bullying of Suga and trying to tell us that gp has cancelled BTS, cause if that is the case then :meme-wait-what:

  • AllKill VIP
    Quote from paradis

    Jungkookie making it to top 5 in the idol list with just 1 album release and officially debuting a year ago...also being the youngest.

    This is actually all you need to know to not take the list too seriously in terms of quality of artist, which some people will do. Good for a popularity heat check as is intended though.

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    This is actually all you need to know to not take the list too seriously in terms of quality of artist, which some people will do. Good for a popularity heat check as is intended though.

    Sure babe or dude....always love the Kpop stans who go around doing quality control and issuing quality certificates.

  • AllKill VIP
    Quote from Varenka

    Already knew from your earlier posts that you'd be one of the ones to not take the list for what it's for.

    It literally says most loved and popular, you had to make it about quality...I took it for exactly what it was instead of linking it to quality even once and trying to issue certificates targetting specific idols.

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    My guy God doesn’t have a gender :meme-excuse-me:


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  • AllKill VIP
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    It literally says most loved and popular, you had to make it about quality...I took it for exactly what it was instead of linking it to quality even once and trying to issue certificates targetting specific idols.

    Then you shouldn't have any problem with my post since I said merely verbalized what you already think about the poll.

    Cho Yong Pil, is the man.. In his 70s and still ruling Korea.


    Would any Kpop idol ever match his longevity and mastery?


    IU might.


    LYW might.


    G-Dragon, could have, but he seems to have stepped down his singing.


    From BTS, probably Jungkook has the most potential, but he has to make the choice between Korea and the World, eventually.

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    This is actually all you need to know to not take the list too seriously in terms of quality of artist, which some people will do. Good for a popularity heat check as is intended though.

    At this point JK is SolUnit, not a Soloist.

    (Subunit of one member of popular groups leveraging group fandom)


    Only when BTS goes inactive for sometime, will the truth about his Popularity truly known.


    But he has they potential, more than the other 6, at this point.

    Quote from Varenka

    Then you shouldn't have any problem with my post since I said merely verbalized what you already think about the poll.

    No, all you verbalised is what I already knew about this making a lot of people pressed hence the immediate issuance of subjective quality certificates.

  • AllKill VIP
    Quote from Varenka

    What am I supposed to be pressed about exactly?

    I mean being a typical Kpop fan who gets pressed when their faves do not rank high enough on lists so make justifications about it not being quality enough or other excuses to dismiss lists...like I said typical

    Not bad for a group that has been on hiatus for 2 years now and had all members enlisted through majority of this year and even currently bar Jin.......



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    Reminds me how Jin recently scored super high ratings for a show he was on

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    Quote from paradis

    Oh this is gonna anger so many people who daily write obituaries about the end of BTS in Korea due to their "bad rep with gp"


    Let me tag WhyKnock

    In a country with a population of 50 million people, based on the votes of 1000 people, a conclusion was made about popularity. To be fair, it was possible to make an online vote, where many more people would take part, based on this, to make some kind of conclusion. Too small a sample of people.

    Quote from paradis

    When they say 19th to 23rd as period of survey do they mean August...as in the midst of Kmedia and Kpop stans bullying of Suga and trying to tell us that gp has cancelled BTS, cause if that is the case then :meme-wait-what:

    I would have believed this was recency bias if I didn’t see all those old names on the list


    Btw these results just go to prove that the kmedia really had an agenda of overly exaggerating a minor incident(no matter how you look at it) even going to the extent of making false stories to drive this narrative. And now these overzealous journalists are not giving the same enthusiastic energy towards the recent events of sexual abuse against Korean women.

    Their disgraceful journalism deserves to be called out

    Jin has been doing well with variety shows. Happy for him.

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    Jungkook should be number 3. He achieved more with his short solo career than most artists on that list.

    Not to mention the fact that he has had the least promo in Korea...just 3 music show performances and that is it!!! And he enlisted barely a month after his solo debut album release.

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