The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual boy group members!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness indexes of 632 boy group members, using big data collected from July 21 to August 21.

BTS’s Jimin topped the list for the 32nd consecutive month with a brand reputation index of 6,055,559. High-ranking phrases in his keyword analysis included “fandom,” “ARMY,” and “song,” while his highest-ranking related terms included “mysterious,” “surpass,” and “donate.” Jimin’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 83.71 percent.

Meanwhile, ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo took second place in this month’s rankings with a brand reputation index of 4,403,703, marking a modest 1.12 percent increase in his score since July.

Finally, BTS swept the next five spots on the list, with Jin rising to third place with a brand reputation index of 4,273,770. His bandmates V, Jungkook, Suga, and RM came in at fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh places respectively for August.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BTS’s Jimin
2. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
3. BTS’s Jin
4. BTS’s V
5. BTS’s Jungkook
6. BTS’ Suga
7. BTS’s RM
8. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
9. Super Junior’s Kim Heechul
10. 2PM’s Junho
11. BTS’s J-Hope
12. SHINee’s Key
13. WINNER’s Kang Seung Yoon
14. SHINee’s Jonghyun
15. WINNER’s Song Mino
16. NCT’s Jungwoo
17. EXO’s D.O.
18. NCT’s Jaehyun
19. THE BOYZ’s Hyunjae
20. GOT7’s Jinyoung
21. THE BOYZ’s Juyeon
22. SHINee’s Onew
23. Highlight’s Yoon Doojoon
24. NCT’s Mark
25. NCT’s Doyoung
26. TVXQ’s Changmin
27. NCT’s Taeyong
28. Highlight’s Yang Yoseob
29. EXO’s Kai
30. MONSTA X’s Minhyuk

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Seungri has been sentenced to three years in prison.

On August 12, the sentencing trial was held at the military court for Seungri, who has been indicted for nine charges, which are violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes, violation of the Food Sanitation Act, embezzlement, violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes, habitual gambling, violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, prostitution mediation, purchase of prostitution services, and special violence instigation.

At the sentencing trial, Seungri was sentenced three years in prison also with a fine of 1,156,900,000 won (approximately $994,544). His personal information will be registered in the national registry for the violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes.

The court commented regarding the charge on prostitution mediation, “The defendant conspired with Yoo In Suk to mediate prostitution for foreign investors on several occasions and gained profits,” and added, “The defendant’s crimes that commercialized sex have a large negative influence on society.”

The court also stated, “As his testimonies were inconsistent and changed between the police investigation, prosecution investigation, and at court, his credibility is low.”

Although Seungri previously denied all charges except for violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, the court declared him guilty of all nine charges.

As the court saw potential flight risk, Seungri was arrested at court on August 12. Although he was originally scheduled to be complete his military service in mid-September, he will now be discharged from the military due to his sentence.

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