The nation‘s most popular messaging app KakaoTalk recently released the list of the ten most searched terms in 2015.

Based on the Daum and Kakao search engines, baseball player Kang Jung-ho for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball topped the list. He was a finalist for the National League’s Rookie of the Year award in his injury-shortened first season.

Kang was followed by singer Yewon, who was embroiled in a scandal involving a quarrel with actress Lee Tae-im.

Lawyer and entertainer Kang Yong-suk, mired in a scandal involving an extra-marital fling, ranked third despite denying the rumors.

Actor Lee Min-ho, who admitted to a relationship with hot shot singer and actress Suzy, also joined the top ten. Lee ranked eighth.

Others in the list include actor Lee Seung-gi (fourth), hit announcer Sohn Suk-hee (fifth), Yoo Jae Suk, nicknamed the “MC of the nation” (sixth), lawmaker Jung Chung-rae (seventh), Texas Rangers’ slugger Choo Shin-soo (ninth) and Mayor of Seoul Park Won-soon (10th).

(khnews@heraldcorp.com)