Jennie, a member of the group Blackpink, made Time magazine's list of the "100 most influential people of the year."
Looking at the "Time 100" list released on the 15th (local time), Jennie was included in the artists category. Jennie, a singer representing K-pop, last year became the first K-pop female solo artist to place three songs on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously with her solo album "Ruby."
Gracie Abrams, a singer-songwriter and the daughter of renowned film director J.J. Abrams, introduced Jennie in Time, saying, "To cut to the chase, she is a star."
Abrams said, "There is magic at her core," adding, "She draws you in just the same whether you see her on a screen, in a stadium of 100,000, at a party, or in a backstage hallway." The same artists category also included Korean American pop star Anderson .Paak and Dakota Johnson.
The leaders category list included U.S. President Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
The icons category included Korean American snowboarder Chloe Kim and Alysa Liu, who won the women's singles figure skating gold medal at this year's Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.