Karina (aespa) overwhelms Jang Won Young (IVE)

The Korean Business Research Institute has just announced the September 2024 brand reputation rankings for Kpop girl group members.

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness indexes of 675 K-pop girl group members, using big data from August 22 to September 22.

aespa's Karina rose to the top of the list this month, with a brand reputation index of 6,512,050, marking an 18.98% increase from August. High-ranking phrases in her keyword analysis included "Supernova", “MY ARTi FILM”, “Synchro U”.

Karina's highest-ranking related terms include "cute", “rare", and “transformative". Karina's positivity-negativity analysis also shows a score of 93.42% positive reactions.

IVE's Jang Won Young came in at second place with a brand reputation index of 5,878,590, marking a 3.65% increase from last month.

aespa's Winter took third place with a brand reputation index of 4,351,148, up 19.03% from August.

IVE's An Yu Jin held onto her fourth place spot with a brand reputation index of 3,787,055 points, also seeing a 1.96% increase in her score since last month.

Finally, Girls' Generation's Taeyeon ranked 5th with a brand reputation index of 3,051,966 points.