Song-Hee Kim was second with Karine Icher and Inbee Park joint third.
There are also a number of high-profile Twitter users in Korea, from the president to pop star Kim Hee-chul.
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Kim Hong-gul is on trial alongside Choi Kyu-sun, a former aide to President Kim, and former Vice-Mayor of Seoul Kim Hee-wan.
The report of Rain's apparent romance with popular South Korean actress Kim Tae-hee, 32, broke in local media on Tuesday.
Kim Yun-hee, an Incheon city official who spent a week as a guide for the girls' choir, said they had given a favorable impression on stage and off.
Their military accomplices were also given prison terms, and some notable business heads (including Samsung's Lee Kun Hee and Daewoo's Kim Woo Choong) were found guilty of bribing the former generals-turned-presidents.
Koh Yong Hee, a former dancer, was considered Kim's closest confidant.
But just to make sure that the message gets through to Chinese tourists and investors, the husband-and-wife team behind Jeju Weekly, Dr. Kim Gyong Ho and Song Jong Hee, plan to start a Chinese publication in 2011 which will be available in both print and on the web.
In 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-Hee was shot and killed by his intelligence chief Kim Jae-kyu.
Kim Dae Jung, a liberal former democracy activist, was once a constant target of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the national security apparatus that conservative Kim Jong Pil formed during military strongman Park Chung Hee's rule.
Park Chung-hee seized control of the government in a military coup, launching Kim's career as a key opposition figure.
Americans Paula Creamer and Christina Kim, Japan's Ai Miyazato and Korea's Hee-Won Han finished joint third.
The heir-apparent Kim Jong Un has Japanese ties: his mother, Ko Young-hee, was born into an ethnic Korean family in Osaka, one of several Japanese cities with Korean minorities (others are Kobe, Kyoto, Fukuoka).
The "third Kim" is the perennial survivor in Korean politics - he goes back as far as Park Chung Hee, under whom he was prime minister.
Mr Kim earned this label in the 1970s, when he began to campaign for democracy and against Park Chung Hee's military dictatorship.
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