Korean Pop Star Rain Voted World's Most Influential Person By Time Magazine Readers... Again
The people have spoken: as part of its TIME 100 poll, Time magazine asked its readers to rank who they think are are the world’s most influential people — and once again, Korean pop star Rain has taken the top spot.
Behold the vastness of Rain’s influence: by the time the poll closed, he had gotten 406,252 “influential” votes. Compare these numbers to President Obama‘s, who took 46th place with a paltry 5,543 “influential” votes.
But demolishing President Obama this year is nothing new for Rain, who was also voted the most influential person in 2006 and 2007, and placed in second in 2008.
And with such unstoppable power naturally comes a little jealousy: Stephen Colbert (who, along with Jon Stewart, comes in at a disappointing 53rd place) recorded a Korean R&B video in retaliation in 2007.
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