Top 50 Authors in South Korea

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest authors in South Korea, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 822 authors tracked in South Korea, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Ho Chi Minh, Stephen King and Helen Keller lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 118,464 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 10,519, and the largest, Ho Chi Minh, reaches around 60,682 people in South Korea. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Korea who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Korea and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Ho Chi Minh	60,682	1.3%	Author	Travel & Leisure
2	Stephen King	31,777	0.2%	Author	Literature
3	Helen Keller	26,005	0.2%	Author	Literature
4	Paul the Apostle	23,643	0.2%	Author	Politics & Society
5	Jane Goodall	17,873	0.1%	Author	Pets & Animals
6	Candace Owens	17,208	0.1%	Author	Literature
7	Confucius	16,539	0.8%	Author	Literature
8	Charles Dickens	15,521	0.3%	Author	Literature
9	Jane Austen	15,017	0.1%	Author	Literature
10	Roald Dahl	14,000	0.2%	Author	Literature
11	Agatha Christie	12,407	0.1%	Author	Literature
12	Noam Chomsky	11,516	0.3%	Author	Literature
13	Anne Frank	10,670	0.1%	Author	Politics & Society
14	William Shakespeare	10,490	0.1%	Author	Literature
15	Neil Gaiman	10,485	0.1%	Author	Literature
16	colleen hoover	10,278	0.2%	Author	Literature
17	Florence Nightingale	10,073	0.1%	Author	Politics & Society
18	Saki	9,621	0.9%	Author	Literature
19	Malala Yousafzai	9,550	0.2%	Author	Politics & Society
20	Amal Clooney	9,358	0.1%	Author	Politics & Society
21	Franz Kafka	8,674	0.1%	Author	Literature
22	Edgar Allan Poe	8,272	0.1%	Author	Literature
23	Albert Camus	8,164	0.2%	Author	Literature
24	Harriet Tubman	7,999	0.1%	Author	Politics & Society
25	Dr. Seuss	7,678	0.1%	Author	Literature
26	Caroline Kennedy	7,429	0.1%	Author	Politics & Society
27	Sun Tzu	7,412	0.5%	Author	Politics & Society
28	Virginia Woolf	7,204	0.1%	Author	Literature
29	Linus Torvalds	7,076	0.4%	Author	Technology & Electronics
30	C. S. Lewis	6,769	0.3%	Author	Literature
31	Sarah J. Maas	6,627	0.2%	Author	Literature
32	Oscar Wilde	6,424	0.1%	Author	Literature
33	Hannah Arendt	6,021	0.1%	Author	Literature
34	George Orwell	5,912	0.1%	Author	Literature
35	Jean-Paul Sartre	5,654	0.2%	Author	Literature
36	Thomas Aquinas	5,549	0.2%	Author	Literature
37	Ernest Hemingway	5,447	0.1%	Author	Literature
38	Pāṇini	5,397	0.3%	Author	Literature
39	Stephenie Meyer	5,396	0.3%	Author	Literature
40	Deepak Chopra	5,368	0.2%	Author	Health
41	Nostradamus	5,127	0.1%	Author	Politics & Society
42	Charles Darwin	5,113	0.1%	Author	Business & Career
43	Sophie Kinsella	5,021	0.1%	Author	Literature
44	Alan Watts	4,996	0.2%	Author	Politics & Society
45	Simon Sinek	4,977	0.2%	Author	Business & Career
46	Farah Pahlavi	4,949	0.4%	Author	Politics & Society
47	Ann Taylor	4,890	0.1%	Author	Fashion & Accessoires
48	Napoleon Hill	4,659	0.2%	Author	Business & Career
49	Hermann Hesse	4,559	0.2%	Author	Literature
50	Nicholas Sparks	4,501	0.2%	Author	Literature