Pop Culture & Entertainment
Box office, charts, and culture ranked and compared.
The Tallest Male K-pop Idols
The tallest male K-pop idols, ranked by height and refreshed monthly. Junghyun leads at 195 cm; the tallest from outside South Korea is James Lee (United States) at 193 cm.
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The Tallest Female K-pop Idols
The tallest female K-pop idols, ranked by height and refreshed monthly. Four idols share first place at 178 cm, including Hanyoung; the tallest from outside South Korea is K (China) at 176 cm.
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The Most-Watched TV Series Finales in US History
From M*A*S*H's 105.9 million viewers to Gunsmoke, a ranking of the 15 most-watched American TV series finales by total US viewers, with air dates, networks and episode titles.
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The Most-Watched Netflix Series of All Time
Squid Game and Wednesday are in a league of their own: 14 series seasons ranked by how many views Netflix counted in their first 91 days, using the company's own all-time lists.
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The Longest-Running Soap Operas by Episodes
General Hospital leads with 16,066 TV episodes, ahead of Guiding Light (15,762) and Days of Our Lives (15,487). Episode totals for 24 soap operas worldwide, counted to mid-October 2026.
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The K-pop Artists With the Most Daesang Wins
The K-pop acts with the most daesang, or grand prizes, at the MAMA Awards and the Melon Music Awards combined. BTS lead with 34, more than three times EXO's 10.
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Korean Directors With the Most Top International Prizes
South Korean directors ranked by their wins at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, the Oscars and the Primetime Emmys. Bong Joon Ho leads with five prizes, all for Parasite, and Hong Sang-soo and Park Chan-wook have four each.
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The Highest-Rated K-Dramas in Korean TV History
Korean TV dramas ranked by their most-watched episode. MBC's You and I leads with a 66.9% household rating for its April 1998 finale, and every drama in the top 16 aired on KBS, MBC or SBS between 1991 and 2004.
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The Most-Viewed K-Pop Music Videos on YouTube
The 25 K-pop music videos with the most YouTube views. PSY's "Gangnam Style" leads with 6.09 billion, over twice as many as any other. ROSÉ and Bruno Mars's "APT." is second and has averaged 3.75 million views a day since 2024. Ten of the 25 are BLACKPINK videos and nine are by BTS.
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The Highest-Grossing K-Pop Concert Tours
The 10 K-pop concert tours with the biggest reported ticket sales. BTS's Arirang World Tour, still on the road, leads with $637.5 million from its first 50 shows, about twice BLACKPINK's Born Pink total of $330 million.
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Korean Reality Shows With the Most Weeks in Netflix's Global Top 10
Korean reality seasons ranked by how many weeks they spent in Netflix's weekly global Top 10 for non-English TV. The first seasons of Culinary Class Wars and Physical: 100 share the record at six weeks, and the dating show Single's Inferno has all five of its seasons in the top 10.
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The Most-Watched Korean Films of All Time
The Korean films that sold the most cinema tickets in South Korea. The Admiral: Roaring Currents leads with 17.6 million admissions, about one for every three people in the country, and all 25 films here passed 10 million.
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