[HI★CHINA Ranking] Stars who China love this week, Kim Soohyun, BTS JIMIN, Hwang Chiyeol, BTS V, JYJ Park Yoocheon

The time where local stars only shine in the country has completely gone.

Regardless of the field, those talented stars are now getting the spotlight on the world stage and creating the new “Korean wave”. Fans’ love and support toward the country’s celebrities are big, not only from USA and Europe where the new Korean wave is created, but also from China, Japan and Asia countries, which are the pivot of Korean wave.

Star Korea announce [HI★CHINA Ranking] every week to see Korean stars’ rapidly changing popularity in China. [HI★CHINA Ranking] combines the biggest portal site in China, Baidu and the rankings on ‘123fans’, the Chinese voting site for Korean and Japanese stars to compute the raking for every week. (Each site takes 50%. Ranks are given by combining both ranks from two sites.) Weibo’s ‘明星勢力榜’ is not included in the ranking for awhile as their rankings for Korean stars’ popularity in China have been omitted recently.

This week for [HI★CHINA Ranking], Kim Soohyun, BTS JIMIN, Hwang Chiyeol, BTS V and JYJ Park Yoocheon ranked in the top 5 and proved the love of Chinese fans.

In addition, Park Sihoo, BTS JUNGKOOK, Rain, Kim Jongkook, JYJ Kim Jaejoong and etc also ranked in top 10 and strengthened the Korean stars’ positions in China.

This week’s ranks
#7 on Baidu
#1 on 123fans
=In total #2

BTS JIMIN
‘Manggae love’ by Chinese fans shoot up.

BTS who stepped out as a global artist and shook the global music market. After V-Jungkook (who used to rank highest), ones with strong Chinese fandom, Jimin ranked the highest now with surprising growth. Chinese fans’ minds have united for Jimin.