Fri Sep 11 — If you cannot read Korean, the only legible part of a front page is its Latin script. We counted every Latin word in 1,388 headline-days. The K-culture desk prints them four times as often as the general paper, and prints a different kind.
Wed Sep 09 — The Asia Artist Awards is running its 2026 lineup posts under the line IN KAOHSIUNG. We had measured which language edition reads Korean stars most: Chinese leads for 306 of 478. Lee Da-hee, named today, is read 2.4x more in Chinese.
Wed Sep 09 — We asked Wikimedia how many people opened 478 Korean entertainers' articles in 15 language editions over three months. With English set aside, Chinese leads for 306 of them and Japanese for 142. These are languages, not countries.
Wed Sep 09 — Chinese Wikipedia is the most-read edition for 306 of 478 Korean stars. For BTS it leads for none. Spanish tops six of the seven members; Japanese tops Jimin by 4,669 reads over three months.
Sat Sep 05 — We counted daily Wikipedia reads in both languages for the same six Korean singers. Jimin draws 2,091 English readers a day and 61 Korean ones. Lim Young-woong, who filled a stadium three nights this weekend, draws 91 in English.
Sat Sep 05 — Taemin and TEN both had comeback stages on Music Core on 5 September. We put eight K-pop soloists beside their own group on English Wikipedia: only Hwasa is read more than their own group. Jimin sits at 0.27 of BTS.
We hold 319 tags in all. 180 of them are on a single piece, and we do not publish a page for those — the tag still shows on the article, it just does not become an address of its own.