English Wikipedia moved the article about BTS's youngest member to Jung Kook in March 2025. Most of the reading still arrives at the old title.
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| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| People measured | 100 |
| Titles counted across them | 732 |
| Reads summed across those titles | 232,311,005 |
| People read mostly through a title the article no longer uses | 6 |
| Median share arriving by any redirect | 0.25% |
| Jungkook — the old title, now a redirect | 4,089,795 |
| Jung Kook — every title summed | 5,766,465 |
| Share of his reading on the old title | 72.1% |
| Jungkook reads, in millions | 4.09m |
For 94 of the 100, readers land on the article's own title and the redirects sit unused. These 6 are the exception.
| Person | Where readers land | Where the article is | Share on the other title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Im Yoon-ah | Im Yoon-ah | Lim Yoona | 93.5% |
| Kim You-jung | Kim Yoo-jung | Kim You-jung | 88.2% |
| Danielle Marsh | Danielle Marsh | Danielle (singer) | 88.2% |
| IU | IU (singer) | IU (entertainer) | 75.1% |
| Lee Jun-ho | Lee Jun-ho (entertainer) | Lee Jun-ho | 73.6% |
| Jungkook | Jungkook | Jung Kook | 72.1% |
A title here is any page name that leads to the person's article — a different romanisation, a legal name, a bracketed disambiguator, sometimes the Korean spelling. The median person has a handful. These ten have the most.
| Article | Titles | Reads, all titles | Share by redirect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psy | 24 | 1,654,895 | 1.7% |
| Jung Kook | 22 | 5,766,465 | 72.1% |
| Rain (entertainer) | 22 | 1,945,505 | 1% |
| Jin (singer) | 21 | 2,318,893 | 8.5% |
| Rosé (singer) | 18 | 7,528,908 | 0.7% |
| Jimin | 18 | 2,624,624 | 1.4% |
| Felix (rapper) | 17 | 1,867,633 | 1.4% |
| Lim Yoona | 17 | 2,989,237 | 93.5% |
| Jay Park | 17 | 1,320,285 | 2% |
| Suga | 16 | 2,442,797 | 16.2% |
Every share on this page is a floor. A search engine that sends an old spelling straight to the new article produces a new-title read, so the true share arriving at the old name can only be higher than what we counted.
English Wikipedia has moved six of the 100 most-read Korean stars to a different name in the last two years. In every one, the old title still takes most of the reading — 72% to 94% of it, four to 22 months on.
5 September 2026
Of the 100 most-read Korean stars, the 20 whose article sits under a single word carry a median of 6.5 bracketed titles — Rain (entertainer), Rain (singer), Rain (soldier). The 80 with a full name carry none. Fame does not explain it.
5 September 2026
English Wikipedia moved his article to Jung Kook in March 2025. Seventeen months on, 4.09m of the 5.77m reads about him land on the old title. Of the 30 most-read Korean stars, only he is reached mostly by a dropped name.
5 September 2026 · corrected