The Korean Business Research Institute has released brand reputation rankings for individual boy group members for the month of January!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness indexes of 598 boy group members, using big data collected from December 10, 2019 to January 11, 2020.

BTS’s Jimin ranked first place for the 13th consecutive month with a brand reputation index of 9,287,381, which was a 6.17 percent decrease from the previous month. High-ranking phrases in his keyword analysis included “Golden Disc,” “Times Square,” and “ARMY,” while his highest-ranking related terms included “handsome,” “sweet,” and “donate.” Jimin’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 82.08 percent positive reactions.

BTS’s V rose to second place with a brand reputation index of 6,122,361 this month.

In third place was ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo, who came in with an index of 5,780,405 for January.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BTS’s Jimin
2. BTS’s V
3. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
4. TVXQ’s Changmin
5. SF9’s Rowoon
6. BTS’s Jin
7. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
8. BTS’s Jungkook
9. BTS’s RM
10. BTS’s Suga
11. BTS’s J-Hope
12. EXO’s Baekhyun
13. NU’EST’s Minhyun
14. SF9’s Dawon
15. CNBLUE’s Jung Yong Hwa
16. SF9’s Chani
17. GOT7’s Jinyoung
18. Super Junior’s Leeteuk
19. Super Junior’s Kyuhyun
20. EXO’s Suho
21. Block B’s Park Kyung
22. Block B’s P.O
23. EXO’s Chanyeol
24. AB6IX’s Lee Dae Hwi
25. BIGBANG’s Taeyang
26. EXO’s Kai
27. WINNER’s Song Mino
28. SEVENTEEN’s Jun
29. EXO’s Sehun
30. NU’EST’s Baekho

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The prosecution has filed another request for a pretrial detention warrant for Seungri.

It was revealed on January 10 that the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office filed a request for a pretrial detention warrant for Seungri on seven charges.

These charges include habitual gambling, violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, purchasing prostitution services, mediating prostitution services, violation of the Food Sanitation Act, embezzlement, and violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes.

The prosecution previously requested a detention warrant in May on five of the charges, but the request was dismissed by the court. The new request includes the addition of habitual gambling and violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act along with the previous five charges.

Court questioning to determine the validity of the pretrial detention warrant will be held on January 13.

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