Recently, Gold House A100 announced the annual list of the 100 most influential people in Asia - Pacific in 2025.
This list honors many characters from many different industries, including entertainment, business, fashion, sports, video games... who have made an impact in leading the multicultural landscape.
This year, many Korean stars are on the list such as director Bong Joon Ho, Rose (Blackpink), Seventeen group, Lee Jung Jae, Lee Byung Hun and director of Squid Game Hawang Dong Hyuk, writer Han Kang, player of the Legendary Faker Alliance and many others...
Director Bong Joon Ho is the person behind many famous films, including Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer, Okja and the Oscar-winning work Parasite.
Recently, Bong Joon Ho returned with Mickey 17 - a dark comedy, science fiction based on the novel Mickey 7. The story opens when Mickey Barnes ( Robert Pattinson) volunteers to join a "pirot" space program to conquer and localize the ice planet Niflheim.
When he died on a mission, he was humanized and recovered in a new body. After many deaths and revivals, Mickey - under the identity of Mickey 17 - accidentally meets his next version, from which he unfolds a fierce survival battle. Mickey 17 has become one of the biggest box office hits in Korea in the first half of 2025.
For Rose (Blackpink), this year is truly a successful year for her when releasing the song "APT." with Bruno Mars and her debut solo album "rosie".
APT. quickly became a global hit, reaching the highest ranking of a female K-pop artist on the US Billboard Hot 100. After more than 6 months of release, APT. is still maintaining a high position on Spotify worldwide every day.
Last month, Rose was the only K-pop artist to make Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2025. In the near future, she will participate in performing a soundtrack for the Hollywood film "F1" starring Brad Trump.
Squid Game stars Lee Jung Jae, Lee Byung Hun, and director Hwang Dong Hyuk are also on the list of Gold House A100. The hit Netflix series returned with a second season at the end of 2024 and continued to resonate. Currently, the audience is waiting for the ending, bringing the interesting story to the end.
The 13-member boy band Seventeen was honored by Gold House with a year of vibrant and successful activities.
Seventeen became Best Group at VMAs 2024 and Best K-pop Tour Artist at BBMAs 2024. Seventeen made history last year as the first K-pop artist to appear on the iconic Pyramid stage at Glastonbury and as the main artist at the Lollapalooza Berlin festival.
In 2024 alone, they attracted more than 1.4 million people to attend their concerts, both in person and online, taking a spot on Billboard Boxscore's year-end "Top Tours" chart as the only K-pop artist to attend.
