LOL.. JaeSuk's picture made me crack lol...
I'm kind of surprised PMS is on there..

I wasn't really expecting BoA and Hyori to earn a lot but wow.

LOL i tried to find a better picture to post but I couldn't.
But i find him so adorably cute.

40 million? Is that a year or a month? And im not really suprised at how high BoA and Hyori are, im just suprised that BoA is higher than Hyori... i thought hyori she was the highest payed female S.K singer..

^ a year i think...

the list looks about right
though i totally didnt expect Park Myung Soo to be on there LOL

yoon jong shin?!? what really? i had no idea!
everyone else was predictable and is no surprise
but.. wow

yay for yjs lol

Most of them didn't surprise me lol

i totally didnt see mc yoo and park myungsoo coming wow they earn a lot that mean!!!!!!!!!!
baeyongjun gah he always no1 so rich!!!!!!!!!!!!
rain boa hyori yeh and jeonjihyun is predictable!!!!!!!!

BoA!!!!!!...3rd top highest paid korean star wow!!!!!

MC Yoo and PMS! WHOOO YEAHHH!

when u say $40 mil etc. is this is in the american currency
if so, i highly doubt that these celebs earned that much

jay-z was the highest paid hip hop personality
he runs a record company, clothing line, & other high-end businesses
kingdom come sold 2 million copies and he has various endorsements
he only got $34 mil for 2006

in comparison to these k-pop stars, what he does should be earning a lot more money than them

but if these k-pop stars are actually earning millions of american dollars..then they should giv some 2 me ^-^ or a charity would b nice

BoA!!!!!!...3rd top highest paid korean star wow!!!!!

Jeon Jihyun!!
im happy she's on the List!!

MC Yoo and PMS!
hilarious!

everyone was expected except for yoonjongshin =D but glad to hear he's doing well lolls

wow, interesting....

thanks for sharing!

lol! Park Myung Soo! wow! i didnt expect him to be there! lol! XD rock on yo!

park myung soo??
wow..
that's suprised me..
i thought rain is #1..
but it's ok because it's BYJ who top the list..
i used to like BYJ in winter sonata

woah! most of the people i expected! wasnt BoA the top last yr?
woah all so rich and talented! they deserve it!

it looks like they took Park Myoung Soo's business into account aswell.... his business is known to rake in quite a bit in a year
There was a news article a few days back that stated that mc you gets paid $80,000(if converted to American dollars) per episode of infinity challenge, on top of the $40k to $50K for a bunch of his other shows, i thought he might be higher on the list considering that kind of statistics

Thats exactly my thoughts too.... 40 mil USD is too much, but 40 mil korean dollars is almost nothing.... can anybody who can read korean please clear this up? Thanks~

Rain used to be number one lol.

JJH<3

Haha i'm not surprised that rain, boa & lee hyori is one the top 10 list.

last year Boa is no 1..........
but she is still rich even she didint release any korean album.......
yoo jae suk pic is so funny.......^^

yeah. of course because they r the hottest and coolest people!

I wonder what MC yoo does with all his money...he always seems to be working lolz

hehe(:

happy wishing to all of them(:

they must all deserve it to make it to the list^^

According to XE.com (a currency conversion site), 432 억 Won is just under $48 million USD.

Approximately broken down, BYJ earned roughly $5.5 million for Taesagi, $5.5 million for endorsements, and $36.6 million in investments. (I'm rounding up number here ...) I mean, the man's known also for his executive thinking as much as his talents as an actor, and he owns a good portion of his own company (BOF), a few restaurants in Korea and Japan, and a significant chunk of stock, if I'm correct. I read an article about his investments a while ago, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details ... (please correct me if I'm wrong; it's been a while).

I think Bi's total breaks down to earnings from world tour, modeling contracts, stocks, and films. BoA's is from record sales, endorsement deals, and stocks.

But, yes, converted, they are in the millions of USD.

rain is the 2nd highest paid korean Star?! O__O
wow~
boa is 3rd

dang im not dat used to seein boas hair like dat..
she changes her hair so much.. it gets hard to get used to.

Yoon Eun Hye!!! Yay, she made it into the top 10 list

yah BoA !! she's 3rd haha

huh? BoA is 3rd although she didn't do anything in Korea O-o;; lol that's funny all of them hadn't been really active this year XD

mc yooooooooo 20characters

BYJ earns more than Bi? I thought Bi earned the most.. like.. ever. lol

^^

I thought that Yoon Eun Hye would be a bit higher. I'm surprised that Yoo Jae Suk and Park Myung Soo are on the list actually.

Boa's left hand looks swollen. O___O;;

she would have placed higher if she didn't take a long break due to her being sick and dealing with all the bruhaha with her previous management company 8Peaks.

i loveeeeeee jeon ji hyun (: although she hasnt been in a major major movie recently, she probably gets it from all of the cf deals..

According to the TVN source, Top 10 Highest Paid Korean Stars for 2007 are as follow:

there's even a news clip about this coverage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnbTxdTLbbs Unfortunately, it's only a cut of Rain.

1. Bae Yong Jun (He is a main stockholder in Key West . He has 30%) Main income: stock- market and playing movie
Sum of income: 43.2 billion won or 46 million U.S. Dollars

2. RAIN Main income: concert, shooting CF, movie
Sum of income: 25 billion won or 27 million U.S. Dollars

3. Boa Main income: single -album, CF
Sum of income: 18.3 billion won or 20 million U.S. Dollars

4. Lee Hyori Main income: CF
Sum of income: 5.5 billion won or 6 million U.S. Dollars

5. Jeon Ji Hyun Main income: CF
Sum of income: 5 billion won or 5 million U.S. dollars

6. Yoon Eun Hye Main income: CF
Sum of income: 4 billion won or 4 million U.S. dollars
____________________________
The rest wasn't provided. sorry By the way, I used Yahoo Currency Converter to put it in U.S dollars. Please correct me if i'm wrong. The exchange rate is as of today so it should be pretty acurate.

What surprise me is the gap between TOP 3 and the rest is so wide. Geez!

JJH wasnt that active this year? Isnt she trying to make it into hollywood?
Bae Yong Jun wasnt that active either.. O__o how did he get to no.1??!?

BoA made it<333 She didnt do as much as the previous year but she deserves to be on the top because she worked so hard for it<33

BoA HWAITING<3

the list isn't suprising except for the last person!
i've never heard of him!!

- Kyu

PMS and YJS! <3 These guys are awesome. YJS MC's tons of shows, and PMS has lots of shows, too.

Boa, Rain, and Hyori don't surprise me. Haha.

The gap between Boa's and Hyori's isnt really that surprising; Hyori's CF deals aren't that big. Boa releases tons of singles and has lots of endorsements.


YEH earns thousands of US dollars per episode in her dramas. I'm surprised her income isn't as big as Hyori's.

Hi, KanJi!

thanks for sharing the above. Hope you don't mind me sharing this in byj thread. Been waiting for translation but it looks like his korean fans are busy with twssg thanks!

Whoa! Myung Soo is on the list!
Who knew, eh? He's awesome though. Hilarious!
Thanks for sharing!

ahh, i knew Rain would be in there.. so is YEH..
whoever is w/ Bae Yong Jun, she will be the happiest woman EVER!
so is Rain, hugging his sexy body xD

Thats one hot picture of Bi...


BYJ is a friggin rich man.

Thanks for clearing things up KanJi! This may help to answer everyone's curiousity abt BYJ's investments.
I will repost here what I shared in the Legend thread when somebody asked about BYJ's source
of income when he is not active in his showbiz activities.

He has been the top earner for quite sometime now. I think for the past 4 or 5 years.

These are all translated articles from Korean to English by Joanne of BYJ's Quilt.

This article talks about his Management and Cultural Contents Co.

Gaeulyeoja posted this on the Talk Box of BYJ's official home.
Top stars, exit from management company to stand alone one after another
[Yonhap News]1/28/07 08:34

Modeling after 'BYJ one-man business' , (top stars) stretch themselves one after another

As the fact that BYJ paid close to 10 billion won as 2006 personal income tax is known recently, it became topic of talks. Paying such amount of tax is an example that decisively shows that BYJ himself is like a one-man business. Actually, he established a company called BOF (Mariko: now under Key East, a KOSDAQ listed co. dedicated for cultural contents which is another BYJ Co) for himself, and is thoroughly managing one-man business BYJ.

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◇"Cultivate minds of businessmen"

The success example of BYJ is counted as the special case even in entertainment businesses. That is BYJ has basically outstanding mind as an executive before he is an actor. That says that to be 'the second BYJ' is not easy. As there actually are stars who do not have any results for several months although they stood alone by taking BYJ as role model, what they are saying gets weight.

Of course, all of them, because they declared to stand alone, are dreaming (to be) BYJ. There are cases in which they are forced to choose (to stand alone) as they are caught under relationships with people, more than that they have great ambition. However, even in such cases, because they are top stars, it is certain that their value will become different depending upon how they plan and prepare for their future. Although they are in positions where they can work alone in full, they have to agonize over what to chhose for thier development.

Along with mergers and associations of management company riding on KOSDAQ boom, we pay attention to what results those stars standing alone will bear.

Reported from Seoul, Yoon Goeun,pretty@yna.co.kr
Copyright © Yonhap News Agency

This article is about his restaurant business and his another co. Smart Kitchen.

Translated by Joanne
Kwon Ohkyeong posted this on the Talk Box of BYJ's official home

'Yon-sama', is he 'Dining(食)-sama' in this time? [Korean Business]6/18/06 17:5

The Smart Kitchen, where actor BYJ has 100% of shares, will open Korean set-menu restaurant in downtown Tokyo with regular meals in the nobility family in old Korea as its menu.

Mr. BYJ, the representative of 'Korea Current stars' would set out to advance into restaurant business in Japan placing 'Korean Current restaurant' in the front in this time.

In coming end of August, the Smart Kitchen plans to show for the first time about 300-pyeong sized Korean set-menu specialty restaurant in the name of 'Kosire' in Hiroganedai area located around 20-minutes distance from Rotponki, the busiest street in Tokyo.

Hiroganedai is the place where production factories of manufactoring companies were in the past, and is in spotlight as a restaurant street recently as restaurant companies enter one after another.

The Smart Kitchen is the company which Mr. Bae established in the last year by single-handedly investing 100% of its capital (one billion won) for restaurant business.

This company opened the 'Gorilla in the Kitchen' claiming healthy food restaurant, in Shinsa-Dong, Seoul in May, in this year following opening of the 'Tea Loft', traditional Korean tea specialty restaurant, in the main branch of Seoul Lotte Department Store in the latter half of the last year.

That makes the 'Kosire' the third 'work' by the Smart Kitchen.

A person who is well informed on restaurant business in Japan evaluated, "Compared to pretty many Korean restaurants in the size around 50-pyeong, most of which adopt 'fusion-styled Korean set-menu meal' centering round Boolgogi or bibimbap, the 'Kosire' is definitely oustanding in its size, and is significant from the perspetive that it utilizes traditional Korean regular meal in its business."

It is known that the Smart Kitchen has been preparing meticulously before opening of the 'Kosire' in order to re-create traditional menu in nobility families in Chosun Dynasty period, including receiving instruction on cooking methods as they personally met off-springs (of nobility).

There is an after-talk that as much as the 'Scandal', the film with noble man in Chosun Period, where BYJ had appeared, is well known in Japan, they referred foods and interior (decoration) appearing in the film.

A person in the business told, "I know that it is not royal food," and "If they succeed in Japan, they would start franchise business by taking back into Korea."

Regarding this, Mr. Chung Kyeongeon, president at the Smart Kitchen, avoided immediate answer by saying, "A collaborating company in Japan is managing all the business."

On the other hand, Mr. Bae, as the largest stock holder (82.44%) in BOF, company specializing entertainment as well as his own management company, rose as the 'big hand' in the business, and also rose to the largest stock holder (37.50%) in the Key East, company listed in KOSDAQ' by participating increasing capital for counter value by third party in past March.

All of BOF and Smart Kitchen are affiliates of the Key East.

Reported by Park Donghui,donghuip@hankyung.com
Copyright ⓒ Korean Business Newspaper

Oh before I forget, he also have shares in IMX Co., his management co. in Japan.
He is actually very rich now.

mc YOO!! ahaha gotta love that guy!