As the first half of 2022 is approaching its end, Korean netizens are talking about the rankings of the 30 most-searched idols on YouTube so far this year.

According to the data collected from January 1st, 2022 to May 22nd, 2022, 2PM's Junho and Girls' Generation's Taeyeon were the most-searched male and female idols on YouTube in Korea, respectively. 

The rest of the rankings are as follows: 

Top 30 most searched female idols on YouTube in Korea so far this year

1st Girls' Generation's Taeyeon

2nd IVE's Wonyoung

3rd BLACKPINK's Jennie

4th BLACKPINK's Rose

5th aespa's Karina

6th (G)I-DLE's Soyeon

7th IVE's Liz

8th BLACKPINK's Jisoo
9th Oh My Girl's Arin

10th Red Velvet's Joy

11th Girls' Generation's YoonA
12th IVE's Leeseo
13th A Pink's Eunji

14th (G)I-DLE's Miyeon

15th Red Velvet's Irene

16th (G)I-DLE's Minnie
17th Billlie's Tsuki
18th Red Velvet's Seulgi

19th NMIXX's Sullyoon

20th aespa's Winter

21st IVE's Yujin
22nd (G)I-DLE's Shuhua
23rd TWICE's Nayeon

24th Cosmic Girls' Bona

25th LE SSERAFIM's Kim Chaewon

26th Red Velvet's Wendy

27th ITZY's Ryujin

28th BLACKPINK's Lisa

29th TWICE's Jihyo

30th LE SSERAFIM's Kazuha

Top 30 most searched male idols on YouTube in Korea so far this year

1st 2PM's Junho

2nd BTS's Jungkook

3rd BTS's Jimin

4th BTS's V

5th EXO's Baekhyun

6th WINNER's Song Min Ho

7th BTS's SUGA

8th Big Bang's G-Dragon

9th Block B's Zico 

10th NCT's Haechan

11th NCT's Jaemin

12th BTS's Jin 

13th SHINee's Onew

14th Super Junior's Kyuhyun

15th NCT's Jaehyun 

16th TXT's Yeonjun

17th ASTRO's Cha Eun Woo

18th SHINee's Taemin

19th Block B's P.O.

20th The Boyz's Juyeon

21st SHINee's Key

22nd NCT's Doyoung 

23rd NCT's Mark

24th Seventeen's Seungkwan

25th BTOB's Sungjae
26th Super Junior's Heechul

27th TXT's Soobin

28th EXO's D.O.
29th NCT's Jeno

30th NCT's Renjun