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Chef Choi Kang-rok, the winner of "Black and White Chef 2," ranked first in the audience's popularity. Lim Sung-geun is second in the controversy.
Choi Kang-rok, the winner of "Black and White Chef: Cooking Class War Season 2," was ranked first in the topical category of TV-OTT integrated non-drama performers in the third week of January announced by Good Data Corporation Fundex on the 21st. Netizens were showing their congratulations to him, who won the final championship after a re-challenge, and their support for him silently moving on his own path.
The second most popular non-drama cast is Lim Sung-geun of "Black and White Chef 2", the third is Park Hyun-ji of "Transition Love 4", and the fourth is Ahn Sung-jae of "Black and White Chef 2". Lim Sung-geun, who appeared as a guest on "Yoo Quiz on the Block," won fifth place.
Lee Ha-sung (cooking monster), who finished second in "Black and White Chef 2," was ranked sixth. Sung Baek-hyun of "Transfer Love 4" and Kim Poong of "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator 2014" were ranked 7th and 8th, respectively. Won-hee, a ILLIT who appeared as a guest on "Radio Star," came in ninth place. Choi Hyun-suk of "Please take care of the refrigerator" was ranked 10th.
The No. 1 TV-OTT non-drama top spot was Netflix's "Black and White Chef: Season 2 of the Cooking Class Wars." The program has been at the top of the list for five consecutive weeks, and it has not lost its top spot in all four categories of buzz: news, Voice of Netizen (VON), video, and SNS. As a result of checking the popularity until the end of the release, Season 2 showed a slight decrease in the weekly average theme score compared to Season 1, but it showed an overwhelming popularity score, proving that Season 2 is also a Korean cooking contest entertainment in name and reality.
Mnet's "Show Me the Money 12," which has newly started broadcasting, came in second place, while JTBC's "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator 2014" came in third place.
From 4th to 10th place, TVING's "Transfer Love 4," ENA/SBS Plus' "I'm SOLO," TV CHOSUN's "Miss Trot 4," tvN's "You Quiz on the Block," KBS2's "Gag Concert," MBN's "The King of Strings" and MBC's "I Live Alone."
The January 3rd week ranking announced by Good Data Corporation included TV non-drama, OTT original non-drama, and performers and guests who appeared in each program from January 12, 2026, to January 18, 2026.
The topical survey to select the most competitive program for the week is the result of analyzing program-related information and netizen reactions from news articles, VONs (Voice of Netizen), videos (video clips and shorts), and SNS. Among the data collected for the investigation, data not related to the program and evaluation data for intentionally raising the topic score are processed through the filtering step. Through this process, program competitiveness is being analyzed more accurately and the accuracy is more than 97%.
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