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Top 100 Authors in South Korea

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest authors in South Korea, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 816 authors tracked in South Korea, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Stephen King, Helen Keller and Paul the Apostle lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 81k people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 6.2k, and the largest, Stephen King, reaches around 32k 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.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Korea who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Korea. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Korea, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Korea. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Linus Torvalds 7.1k 39.8 14.5% Author
27 Virginia Woolf 7k 32.4 67.9% Author
28 Sarah J. Maas 6.6k 33.0 59.7% Author
29 Oscar Wilde 6.5k 31.0 60.6% Author
30 C. S. Lewis 6.4k 48.9 71.7% Author
31 Deepak Chopra 6.3k 31.3 58.6% Author
32 Pāṇini 6.2k 27.6 39.0% Author
33 George Orwell 6.1k 26.0 49.6% Author
34 Hannah Arendt 6k 44.9 66.1% Author
35 Jean-Paul Sartre 5.7k 45.1 53.1% Author
36 Farah Pahlavi 5.6k 39.9 100.0% Author
37 Stephenie Meyer 5.4k 29.6 44.7% Author
38 Ernest Hemingway 5.4k 29.2 69.3% Author
39 Charles Darwin 5.2k 32.2 46.8% Author
40 Nostradamus 5.1k 49.8 60.1% Author
41 Sophie Kinsella 5.1k 32.9 64.5% Author
42 Alan Watts 5k 42.9 62.8% Author
43 Simon Sinek 5k 33.8 69.0% Author
44 Napoleon Hill 4.6k 32.4 59.8% Author
45 Hermann Hesse 4.6k 27.5 63.2% Author
46 George R. R. Martin 4.5k 29.4 60.2% Author
47 Nicholas Sparks 4.4k 32.0 64.3% Author
48 Dan Brown 4.4k 29.9 64.7% Author
49 Sarah, Duchess of York 4.4k 52.2 97.0% Author
50 Thomas Aquinas 4.4k 47.1 81.2% Author

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Korea and ranks each author by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest author in South Korea?

Stephen King currently leads with an estimated audience of 32k people in South Korea.

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