Top 50 Poets in South Korea

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest poets in South Korea, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 118 poets tracked in South Korea, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath and Antler lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 29,617 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 2,386, and the largest, T. S. Eliot, reaches around 12,406 people in South Korea. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Korea who actively engage with each poet, 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	T. S. Eliot	12,406	0.5%	Poet	Literature
2	Sylvia Plath	9,498	0.2%	Poet	Literature
3	Antler	7,713	0.3%	Poet	Pets & Animals
4	Ada Lovelace	6,571	0.2%	Poet	Politics & Society
5	Ralph Waldo Emerson	5,226	0.5%	Poet	Literature
6	YAN TV	4,337	3.2%	Poet	Movies & TV
7	H. P. Lovecraft	4,075	0.1%	Poet	Literature
8	Alexander Pushkin	4,047	0.4%	Poet	Literature
9	Shel Silverstein	3,607	0.3%	Poet	Literature
10	Richard I of England	3,490	0.3%	Poet	Politics & Society
11	Emily Brontë	3,240	0.2%	Poet	Literature
12	Aldous Huxley	2,780	0.2%	Poet	Literature
13	Lord Byron	2,725	0.1%	Poet	Literature
14	Nikolai Gogol	2,685	0.3%	Poet	Literature
15	Trịnh Công Sơn	2,599	6.4%	Poet	Literature
16	Henry David Thoreau	2,561	0.2%	Poet	Literature
17	Percy Bysshe Shelley	2,500	0.3%	Poet	Literature
18	Tennessee Williams	2,091	0.2%	Poet	Literature
19	Wole Soyinka	1,878	0.6%	Poet	Literature
20	Allen Ginsberg	1,785	0.2%	Poet	Literature
21	Rumi	1,783	0.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
22	dean koontz	1,732	0.3%	Poet	Literature
23	W. H. Auden	1,654	0.6%	Poet	Literature
24	Charlotte Brontë	1,652	0.3%	Poet	Literature
25	Miguel de Cervantes	1,557	0.1%	Poet	Literature
26	Ray Bradbury	1,556	0.1%	Poet	Literature
27	Joyce Carol Oates	1,544	0.2%	Poet	Literature
28	Cyrano de Bergerac	1,413	0.1%	Poet	Literature
29	Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum	1,412	0.2%	Poet	Politics & Society
30	Wilfred Owen	1,384	0.3%	Poet	Literature
31	Chinua Achebe	1,366	0.5%	Poet	Literature
32	John Keats	1,305	0.2%	Poet	Literature
33	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1,272	0.6%	Poet	Literature
34	Bertolt Brecht	1,214	0.1%	Poet	Literature
35	Audre Lorde	1,066	0.2%	Poet	Literature
36	Seamus Heaney	959	0.3%	Poet	Literature
37	Robert Louis Stevenson	951	0.1%	Poet	Literature
38	Charles Baudelaire	874	0.1%	Poet	Literature
39	Anne Brontë	839	0.4%	Poet	Literature
40	Mahmoud Darwish	804	0.1%	Poet	Literature
41	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	797	0.3%	Poet	Literature
42	Friedrich Schiller	786	0.1%	Poet	Literature
43	E. E. Cummings	773	0.4%	Poet	Literature
44	John Updike	737	0.4%	Poet	Literature
45	Al-Ghazali	731	0.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
46	Augustine of Hippo	713	0.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
47	Kazi Nazrul Islam	712	0.2%	Poet	Politics & Society
48	John Henry Newman	670	0.3%	Poet	Politics & Society
49	John Milton	661	0.1%	Poet	Literature
50	Michel Houellebecq	598	0.1%	Poet	Literature