Actor Cha Tae Hyun, a cast member of "2 Days & 1 Night," topped the November brand reputation rankings for Korean TV variety show stars.
The Korea Institute for Corporate Reputation analyzed 41.57 million pieces of big data of 36 TV variety show stars from October 2 to November 3, an increase of 60.22 percent from October's 25.94 million, and ranked them according to media, participation, community and communication indices.
Cha Tae Hyun surged to the top spot with a score of 5.48 million, a whopping increase of 1,063.99 percent compared to his October total of 471,359, which placed him out of the top 20 variety show stars.
His name was closely associated with the keywords "Kim Joo-hyuk," "Song Joong-ki" and "Song Hye-kyo" with a positive analysis ratio of 83.46 percent.
Entertainer Lee Sang Min of "Mom's Diary-My Ugly Duckling" and other TV shows dropped to second place with 3.89 million but still an increase of 59.21 percent from his October score of 2.44 million.
Kim Byung Man, who has returned to "Law of the Jungle" after suffering from serious spinal injury, ranked third with 1.86 million, an increase of 156.08 percent from October.
In fourth place is Shin Dong Yup with 1.86 million followed by "Running Man" and "Infinite Challenge" star Yoo Jae Suk with 1.76 million.
Ranking sixth to 20th are:
6. Kim Jong Min - 1.71 million
7. Lee Soo Geun - 1.59 million
8. Kim Sung Joo - 1.58 million
9. Kim Jong Kook - 1.55 million
10. Lee Kwang Soo - 1.44 million
11. Lee Kyung Kyu - 1.42 million
12. Ji Sang Ryul - 1.4 million
13. Park Myung Soo- 1.37 million
14. Seo Jang Hoon - 1.33 million
15. Kim Gura - 1.18 million
16. Kim Joon Ho - 1.07 million
17. Park Na Rae - 984,951
18. Defconn - 975,323
19. Kim Gun Mo - 949,114
20. Kim Sook - 875,111
