$60 Million
Who He Is
Park Ji-min, born October 13, 1995, in Busan, South Korea, performs as Jimin and is the main vocalist and lead dancer of BTS, the South Korean group that became the first non-English-language act to top the Billboard Hot 100 and the highest-grossing touring act of 2019, surpassed that year only by Metallica. He joined Big Hit Entertainment as a trainee after a teacher at his performing arts high school encouraged him to audition, and debuted with BTS in June 2013. As a solo artist, his 2023 debut album “FACE” sold more than 1.45 million copies in its first week in South Korea, the highest first-week total ever for a solo artist, and its single “Like Crazy” became the first song by a Korean solo artist to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. His 2024 follow-up, “MUSE,” made him the only K-pop solo artist with multiple albums debuting in the Billboard 200’s top three. He became Dior’s first Asian global brand ambassador in January 2023 and a Tiffany & Co. house ambassador two months later. Jimin enlisted for South Korea’s mandatory military service in December 2023 and was discharged in June 2025, after which BTS reunited for their 2026 comeback album “Arirang” and the accompanying world tour of the same name.
1. BTS Touring
BTS’s touring history spans more than a decade, from modest Asia-only runs early in the group’s career to some of the highest-grossing engagements in Billboard Boxscore history. The Love Yourself World Tour, including its 2019 Speak Yourself stadium extension, grossed a confirmed $213.9 million from 1.7 million tickets sold, the highest total ever recorded by a non-English-language act at the time. The pandemic-era Permission to Dance on Stage concert series (2021 to 2022), comprising in-person shows in Los Angeles, Seoul, and Las Vegas, grossed a confirmed $75.5 million in live box office. Following all seven members’ completion of military service, BTS launched the Arirang World Tour on April 9, 2026, an all-stadium run using a 360-degree in-the-round stage; as of the most recent reported Billboard Boxscore figures, the tour had already grossed $124 million from 660,000 tickets across its April and early May dates, putting it on pace to potentially become the group’s highest-grossing tour. Because the tour is still in progress and continues through 2027, only the confirmed actual gross to date is counted here rather than analyst projections, which range as high as $1.3 billion to $1.87 billion for the full run.
- Early tours (2014-2017, Asia-focused, smaller venues): ~$15M (conservative estimate)
- Love Yourself World Tour and Speak Yourself extension (2018-2019, confirmed): $213.9M
- Permission to Dance on Stage (2021-2022, confirmed live box office): $75.5M
- Arirang World Tour (2026, confirmed to date only, tour ongoing): $124M
Combined career touring box office: $428.4M.
Applying a 37 percent production cost deduction consistent with the stadium and arena-scale productions across these runs:
- Combined touring box office: $428.4M
- Less production costs (37%): net of $269.9M to the group and HYBE combined
No public filing documents BTS’s internal revenue split. A near-equal seven-way split is used here, consistent with the treatment applied elsewhere in this database absent documented evidence of an unequal structure.
Jimin’s personal gross touring share (one-seventh of $269.9M, before representation and tax): ~$38.6M.
2. BTS Recorded Music and Streaming
BTS’s group catalog spans more than a dozen studio and EP releases across Korean and Japanese markets, with multiple albums certified multi-million in South Korea and six number-one debuts on the Billboard 200. Group recorded-music income is split among the members and subject to HYBE’s standard production, marketing, and distribution cost structure. A conservative estimate is used here given the size and duration of the catalog relative to the more precisely documented solo figures below.
BTS recorded music and streaming, personal share (career, 2013-2026): ~$15M.
3. Solo Recording Career and Catalog (Held Asset)
Unlike some of his bandmates, Jimin is a credited co-writer on the substantial majority of his own solo discography. His debut album “FACE” (March 2023) lists him as a co-writer on five of its six tracks, and his second album “MUSE” (July 2024) lists him as a co-writer on six of its seven tracks and co-producer on two. Both albums were commercially massive: “FACE” sold more than 1.45 million copies in its first week in South Korea and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, the highest-charting album by a South Korean solo artist in Billboard history at the time, while “MUSE” repeated that number-two debut and became the best-selling album by a K-pop soloist in the United States that year on pure sales. “Like Crazy” became the first song by a Korean solo artist to top the Billboard Hot 100.
Because Jimin holds genuine, sourced co-writing credits across the large majority of this catalog, a writer’s share is valued here, distinct from his recording income, which is the royalty income already collected and counted below. Given the catalog’s commercial scale and its concentration in pop and R&B rather than rap, which historically carries higher catalog multiples, a 9x multiple is applied.
- Solo songwriting catalog, held asset (9x multiple on ~$3M/yr estimated personal writer’s share): ~$27M
This catalog is released through Big Hit Music, the same label structure as BTS’s group output, so Jimin does not hold master ownership the way an independently structured deal would provide; this line reflects his writer’s share specifically, not a master-recordings asset.
- Solo recording and streaming income, FACE and MUSE era (2023-2025): ~$18M
4. Endorsements
Jimin became Dior’s first Asian global brand ambassador in January 2023, a notable structural milestone for the house, and was named a Tiffany & Co. house ambassador two months later, joining fellow ambassadors Zoe Kravitz and Gal Gadot in campaign work. Industry coverage of BTS-tier idol ambassadorships places single global luxury contracts in the $3 million to $10 million annual range per brand for top-tier K-pop talent. He has also maintained smaller regional partnerships, including a Samsung collaboration tied to BTS-branded device campaigns and a late-2025 deal with Korean beauty brand LADOR.
- Dior and Tiffany & Co. global ambassadorships (2023-2025): ~$5M/yr x 3 years = $15M
- Samsung and LADOR (smaller regional deals): ~$3M
Total endorsement income: ~$18M.
5. HYBE Equity (Held Asset)
A month before Big Hit Entertainment’s September 2020 IPO, founder Bang Si-Hyuk gave each of the seven BTS members 68,385 shares in the company. Those shares were worth $7.9 million on the IPO’s first day of trading and had appreciated to approximately $15 million by mid-2023 at the stock’s peak. Consistent with the identical-stake, identical-valuation treatment applied elsewhere in this database for the same shareholding already documented for bandmate Jungkook, this stake is marked to the current, more depressed share price rather than the 2023 peak.
HYBE equity (68,385 shares, marked to current price): ~$9.4M.
6. Real Estate
In March 2021, Jimin paid approximately $5.3 million for an apartment in Nine One Hannam, Seoul’s most expensive residential complex, often described as the “Beverly Hills of Korea.” Bandmate RM purchased a unit in the same building at the same time for approximately $5.7 million. No current appraisal or resale value has been publicly disclosed for Jimin’s unit, and consistent with the rule that appreciation requires both a confirmed purchase price and a confirmed current value, no gain is claimed.
- Nine One Hannam apartment (documented $5.3M purchase price, no disclosed current value): no gain claimed
Real estate appreciation: $0 (documented purchase price only).
7. Representation
BTS’s group income, including touring and recorded music, continues to be managed through HYBE (formerly Big Hit Entertainment), which functions as both label and tour company. Consistent with the blended representation rate already established for Jungkook’s HYBE-routed income in this database, the same rate is applied here for both group and solo income, since Jimin’s solo work is also released through Big Hit Music rather than an independent entity.
Representation (30% blended on $89.6M combined gross): -$26.88M.
8. Tax
Jimin remains a South Korean tax resident, where the top individual marginal income tax rate reaches 45 percent on earnings above roughly $730,000. Consistent with the effective rate already applied to Jungkook’s HYBE-routed income in this database, a 44 percent effective rate is used here to account for standard deductions available to high-earning entertainers.
Tax (44% on $62.72M post-representation): -$27.6M.
Combined gross across all income sources totals $89.6M. After representation (-$26.88M) and tax (-$27.6M), approximately $35.12M remains before lifestyle burn.
9. Lifestyle Burn
Jimin’s consumed spending has scaled with his earnings across three distinct career phases, including an 18-month period of minimal personal spending during his 2023 to 2025 military service, when consumed costs drop sharply for any enlisted entertainer. He has a consistent pattern of documented philanthropic giving, including multiple ₩100 million (approximately $87,000) donations to educational and scholarship causes, but no documented pattern of extravagant or high-risk spending.
- Early-to-mid BTS era (2013-2018, 6 years, rising fame): ~$300K/yr = $1.8M
- Peak group era (2019-2022, 4 years, global superstardom and heavy touring): ~$1.2M/yr = $4.8M
- Solo, military, and comeback era (2023-2026, 4 years, blended for reduced spending during enlistment): ~$900K/yr = $3.6M
Total lifestyle burn: ~$10.2M. Available to accumulate: ~$24.92M.
10. Wealth Management
No disciplined investment program or wealth manager has been publicly documented for Jimin. Default applies.
Wealth Management: None reported ($0).
Net Worth Waterfall
| Line Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| BTS touring, personal gross share (box office less production, seven-way split) | +$38.6M |
| BTS recorded music and streaming, personal share | +$15M |
| Solo recording and streaming income, FACE/MUSE era (2023-2025) | +$18M |
| Endorsements (career) | +$18M |
| Less: representation (30% blended) | -$26.88M |
| Less: tax (44% effective) | -$27.6M |
| Less: lifestyle burn (era-scaled, consumed only) | -$10.2M |
| Available to accumulate | +$24.92M |
| Solo songwriting catalog, held asset (9x multiple) | +$27M |
| HYBE equity (68,385 shares, marked to current price) | +$9.4M |
| Real estate appreciation (Nine One Hannam apartment) | $0 (no gain documented) |
| Wealth Management | $0 |
| Total Net Worth | ~$61.32M → $60M |
Our calculation: $60 Million.
Why Our Figure Differs From Consensus
Celebrity Net Worth places Jimin at $50 million. Our independent calculation produces approximately $60 million, modestly above consensus, and the gap is anchored largely in the Arirang World Tour, which had already grossed a confirmed $124 million from its first ten dates as of the most recent reported Boxscore figures, a faster pace than BTS’s previous record-setting Love Yourself World Tour and well ahead of consensus figures that predate the tour’s launch entirely. Unlike some idols whose net worth estimates rest mostly on group activity, Jimin’s case is reinforced by a genuinely documented solo catalog: he holds real, sourced co-writing credits on the large majority of both “FACE” and “MUSE,” two albums that broke first-week sales records and made him the highest-charting Korean solo artist in Billboard 200 history. Working against an even higher figure: his HYBE equity is marked to the stock’s current, more depressed price rather than its 2023 peak, and his Arirang touring share counts only the confirmed actual gross to date rather than the $1.3 billion to $1.87 billion analyst projections for the tour’s full multi-year run, a deliberately conservative treatment of revenue not yet earned. His real estate is similarly conservative, since no current value has been disclosed for his Seoul apartment three years after purchase.
The Trainee Who Became the Record
Jimin spent six years training before he ever performed publicly, and the version of him that debuted in 2013 could not have predicted that a decade later he would be the answer to a trivia question: which Korean solo artist topped the Billboard Hot 100 first. That distinction belongs to “Like Crazy,” a song he co-wrote himself, on an album that broke South Korea’s all-time first-week sales record the same week it was released. The numbers in this calculation tell a story in two acts: a group act, built on a decade of stadium tours that have only gotten bigger with each return, and a solo act, where his own name sits in the writing credits rather than someone else’s. Between the two, and with an Arirang World Tour that was still climbing toward its final total as of this writing, the distance between Jimin’s documented earnings and a net worth estimate built before this comeback even started was never going to hold.
