Before I list who was #1 in 2025, although you would probably have guessed that whyknock would not have written this if the #1 was not a certain 1,352 years old, I will list who were #1 in 2009-2024.
Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 40 - Wikipedia
2009-2010 Kim Yuna, figure stater
2011-2012, 2014 SNSD
2013-Psy
2015-16 EXO
2017- Park Bogum, about whom I will write below
2018, 2020-2023 BTS
2019, 2024 BlackPink
KPop at their height
Now here is the 2025 ranking
10. Yoo Jaesuk. Most people will know who he is.
9. Lee Kangin, soccer player now with Paris St. Germain
8. Seventeen
7. Lee Junghoo, baseball player now with San Francisco Giants
6, Faker, gamer
5. Lim Youngwoong
4. Jun Hyunmoo
2. Son Heungmin, the aging player in Totenham Hotspur
Since I did not mention 1 yet you would probably have guessed who the person is but I will mention the person in here.
1. IU, Singer, Actress, Real Estate Speculator and former Company Owner.
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Is it the end of years of KPop?
Park Bogum topped the list in 2017 thanks to his Love in Moonlight, which beat IU up.
And now IU tops this list by capitalizing on Park Bogum who exits after sjx episodes out of 16.
If Park Bogum didn't beat IU in 2016 IU would have remained an actress following the disastrous Zeze, but he whipping IU made her to return to Korean Pop and became a huge thorn on the side of BTS and BlackPink,
and now she has overcome both of them to finish off the KPop wave.
