Son Heung-min, Favorite Sports Player for 6 Consecutive Years... Who is 2nd?

Kang-in Lee Tops Sports Prospects for 3rd Year... Shin Yu-bin Ranks 2nd
Overwhelming No.1 Sports Highlight is 2002 World Cup Semifinal

For the sixth consecutive year, soccer player Son Heung-min was chosen as the most popular sports athlete among the people of South Korea.

According to the special edition survey results announced by Daily Sports Korea on the 21st, 30.6% of respondents named Son Heung-min as their favorite sports athlete. Following him were soccer player Lee Kang-in (3.2%), figure skater Kim Yuna (2.2%), volleyball player Kim Yeon-koung (2.2%), and soccer player Park Ji-sung (1.7%).

The match between South Korea and Singapore in the first round of Group C in the second qualifying round of the 2026 CONCACAF World Cup Asia region was held on the 16th at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Mapo-gu, Seoul. Son Heung-min is celebrating after scoring a goal. [Image source=Yonhap News]

Lee Kang-in also ranked first for the third consecutive year in the "Most Promising Sports Prospect" category (23.0%). The second place went to table tennis player Shin Yu-bin (6.1%). Baseball player Kim Do-young (2.4%), badminton player An Se-young (2.2%), and baseball player Moon Dong-joo (1.8%) followed.

The most emotionally moving sports moment was the "2002 World Cup Semifinals" (50.5%). The second place was Kim Yuna's "2010 Vancouver Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medal" (22.2%), and third was Son Heung-min's "2022 English Premier League Top Scorer" (14.3%).

The final group stage match of the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games men's football between South Korea and Bahrain was held on September 24 at the Jinhua Sports Center Stadium in Zhejiang Province, China. In the first half, Lee Kang-in is being substituted.
[Image source=Yonhap News]

In the favorite celebrity category, Yoo Jae-suk held the first place for the sixth year in a row. Second was IU (2.9%), third BTS (1.9%), fourth Namgoong Min (1.5%), and fifth Lim Young-woong (1.3%).

This survey was conducted by Daily Sports Korea, commissioned to the Korea Public Opinion Reputation Research Institute, targeting 1,003 people aged 18 and over nationwide from the 3rd to the 8th of this month. The survey method was a mobile web survey, with a sampling error of ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.

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