JYJ's Jaejoong Tops Chinese K-Pop List on Baidu

JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong has made it to the number 1 spot for the Chinese K-Pop list on the Chinese portal site, Baidu.

According to the results that were taken on June 1, Kim Jaejoong received 153,000 votes to reach the number 1 spot. On second place was Super Junior’s Kim Hee Chul with 94,358 votes. It was the first time such a large number of votes were cast for a single Korean celebrity. On June 4, Kim Jaejoong had 759 more votes to make it 180,900 votes.

The third place was taken by Jang Geun Suk (89,943 votes), fourth place was claimed by Lee Min Ho (88,869 votes) and fifth place was taken by JYJ’s Park Yoo Chun (75,699 votes). Sixth place was Super Junior’s Donghae (74,541 votes), seventh place was Lee Jun Ki (74,350 votes), eighth place was DBSK’s Yunho (66,920) and ninth place was Kim Hyun Joong. JYJ’s Junsu took 11th place with 54,345 votes.

Netizens who came across this news commented, “Kim Jaejoong’s Baidu ranking is daebak,” “How can this be? This is so great!” “Chinese fans are so great, Kim Jaejoong is so popular,” and  “Kim Jaejoong alone took over 100,000 votes.”