[Info] Group ranking with the highest commercial value in South Korea for the past 25 years

Korea's style of creating stars has always been grooming groups into popular bands, since the first Korean wave HOT, every year there are countless of new groups that step into the entertainment industry, there are even some groups who had not even performed on stage and had already been eliminated and need to go through reselections again, but there's also some who rose to stardom with just one hit. Take a count in 25 years on the male and female groups, according to Daum Cafe ranking statistics, DBSK with more than 2 fold of votes surpassing No.2 Bigbang and claimed the top spot.

1. DBSK - 784147

2. Bigbang - 366398

3. SNSD - 297771

4. SS501 266442

SS501 (pronounced as Double S 501) is Korea's famous boys group, 2005 debut till now, has been showing very good results in Korea and Japan. The S in the group name is derived from Singer, Super Star and 5 stands for 5 person, 0 stands for forever, 1 stands for together as one.

5. 2PM - 264345

6. Super Junior - 248616

7. Shinhwa - 188821

8. SHINee - 116447

9. Wonder Girls - 109823

10. FT-Island - 109585

11. 2NE1 - 96690

12. HOT - 75616

13. GOD - 72020

14. MBLAQ - 67417

15. BEAST - 64287

16. SES - 61319

17. 2AM - 57662

18. F(X) - 55682

19.Kara - 52849

20. Brown Eyed Girls - 44003

21. T-ara - 20210

22. 4Minute - 18854

23. After School - 14726

24.U-Kiss - 4936

25. HAM - 961

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credit: Love Jun - 金亨俊台灣後援會
English translation: kelemama @501wangja.multiply.com
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