BTS, Babymonster and Byeon Woo-seok are read most in three different countries — and least in the same one

How often each edition is first, and last

Three editions share first place between them. One takes last place four times out of five.

The most common orders

Every one of the six most common orders ends the same way. The disagreement is entirely at the top.

The 20 most-read Korean stars, country by country

Reads per million reads of that edition, twelve months. The lowest figure in each row is marked. The music and actor panels overlap: IU, Im Yoon-ah and Cha Eun-woo appear in both. We count each person once by their Wikidata id. Before we did, our own top-twenty list had IU in it twice.

What this page cannot tell you

Not interest. A reader in Malaysia may be reading the Indonesian article, which is written in a language close to their own.

Not edition size. Reads are already expressed per million reads of that edition.

Not everyone. The panel is the casts and acts behind Korean titles that reached a Netflix country chart.

Dividing by an edition's own total means a month when that edition was unusually busy lowers every article in it. The ratio measures share of attention inside an edition, not how many people read something. Per-million already removes the size of each edition, so this is not a statement that the Malay Wikipedia is small. But a smaller edition gives noisier figures, and the Malay and Indonesian languages are close enough that a Malaysian reader may be reading the Indonesian article — which would land in the Indonesian column. This panel is built from Korean titles that reached a Netflix country chart, so anyone outside it is absent.

Source — Wikidata (CC0) for article links; Wikimedia Pageviews API for reads. Window — 2025-08 through 2026-07, 12 months, human traffic only. Related: Malaysia reads Korean brands more readily than Korean people.