Kim Seon Ho surpassed the Hospital Playlist cast in September drama actor brand value rankings
Korea’s September drama actor brand reputation rankings are filled with familiar names, but the specific positions are quite surprising to many viewers.
On September 20, the Korean Business Research Institute announced the latest brand value rankings for Korean drama actors. The rankings are determined based on the analysis of 99,640,608 data on brand reputation of drama actors in September through 4 criteria: media coverage, community index, participation and interaction level of 50 actors appearing in dramas aired from August 20, 2021 to September 20, 2021. As expected, the most popular actors and actresses whose names are included in the rankings are from hit dramas such as Penthouse, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, Hospital Playlist and Hong Chun Gi. However, the specific ranks are quite surprising.
Specifically, despite having high ratings and media coverage, the cast of Penthouse and Hospital Playlist all rank lower than Kim Seon Ho – the male lead of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha. He is followed by Shin Min Ah – the drama’s female lead at the 3rd place. Shin Min Ah is also the actress with the highest ranking on the chart, surpassing many other famous actresses such as Lee Ji Ah, Kim So Yeon, Jeon Mi Do, Kim Yoo Jung,… What’s surprising is that earlier, the dimple couple was not included in the August rankings. Moreover, the main couple of Nevertheless, Song Kang – Han So Hee also excellently made it to top 10 even though their drama ended on August 21.
Top 30 is as follows:
1. Kim Seon Ho
2. Jo Jung Suk
3. Shin Min Ah
4. Kim So Yeon
5. Jeon Mi Do
6. Song Kang
7. Han So Hee
8. Lee Ji Ah
9. Ahn Hyo Seop
10. Jung Kyung Ho
11. Kim Dae Myung
12. Yoo Yeon Seok
13. Park Joo Mi
14. Kim Yoo Jung
15. Uhm Ki Joon
16. Eugene
17. Yoon Jong Hoon
18. Jinyoung (GOT7)
19. Jeon Do Yeon
20. Nam Goong Min
21. Ryu Jun Yeol
22. Park Ha Sun
23. Lee Min Young
24. Lee Sang Yi
25. Gong Myung
26. Jeon Hye Bin
27. Ji Sung
28. Seo Hyun Jin
29. Hong Eun Hee
30. Sung Hoon
Despite being a rising actor, Kim Seon Ho already has an outstanding influence. Currently, in addition to having a large fan base, he also constantly receives offers from big productions, most recently the upcoming movie ‘Dog Days’ starring the ‘national grandmother’ Youn Yuh Jung – who just received an Oscar for her role in Minari.