The Merchant (TV series)

The Merchant of Joseon - 2001 South Korean television drama. Article “The Merchant (TV series)” in English Wikipedia has 20 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Korean.

In June 2025 the article “The Merchant (TV series)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Merchant (TV series)”, its content was written by 25 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 189 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 39 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1210 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #138194 in April 2022
• Global: #47785 in June 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #154018 in July 2021
• Global: #123702 in December 2023

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) 商道		29.4684
2	Italian (it) Sangdo		25.0391
3	Korean (ko) 상도 (드라마)		24.3467
4	Turkish (tr) Sangdo		20.0432
5	English (en) The Merchant (TV series)		19.9724
6	Indonesian (id) Sangdo, Merchants of Joseon		17.7082
7	Chinese (zh) 商道		16.2342
8	Arabic (ar) التاجر (مسلسل)		15.4174
9	Thai (th) อิมซังอ๊ก ยอดพ่อค้าหัวใจทระนง		14.7045
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thương gia (phim)		14.6317

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Merchant (TV series)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 商道		214 955
2	Chinese (zh) 商道		183 007
3	Korean (ko) 상도 (드라마)		160 779
4	Arabic (ar) التاجر (مسلسل)		108 094
5	Persian (fa) تاجر پوسان		99 661
6	English (en) The Merchant (TV series)		69 550
7	Thai (th) อิมซังอ๊ก ยอดพ่อค้าหัวใจทระนง		45 902
8	Turkish (tr) Sangdo		5 730
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thương gia (phim)		2 743
10	Spanish (es) Sangdo (serie de televisión)		2 392

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Merchant (TV series)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Korean (ko) 상도 (드라마)		1 370
2	Chinese (zh) 商道		716
3	Persian (fa) تاجر پوسان		657
4	Japanese (ja) 商道		646
5	English (en) The Merchant (TV series)		581
6	Arabic (ar) التاجر (مسلسل)		560
7	Thai (th) อิมซังอ๊ก ยอดพ่อค้าหัวใจทระนง		194
8	Turkish (tr) Sangdo		84
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thương gia (phim)		28
10	Indonesian (id) Sangdo, Merchants of Joseon		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The Merchant (TV series)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 상도 (드라마)		46
2	Chinese (zh) 商道		29
3	English (en) The Merchant (TV series)		25
4	Persian (fa) تاجر پوسان		24
5	Japanese (ja) 商道		21
6	Arabic (ar) التاجر (مسلسل)		18
7	Thai (th) อิมซังอ๊ก ยอดพ่อค้าหัวใจทระนง		9
8	Spanish (es) Sangdo (serie de televisión)		7
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thương gia (phim)		5
10	Italian (it) Sangdo		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The Merchant (TV series)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 상도 (드라마)		3
2	Italian (it) Sangdo		2
3	English (en) The Merchant (TV series)		1
4	Arabic (ar) التاجر (مسلسل)		0
5	Spanish (es) Sangdo (serie de televisión)		0
6	Persian (fa) تاجر پوسان		0
7	Indonesian (id) Sangdo, Merchants of Joseon		0
8	Japanese (ja) 商道		0
9	Thai (th) อิมซังอ๊ก ยอดพ่อค้าหัวใจทระนง		0
10	Turkish (tr) Sangdo		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The Merchant (TV series)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Korean (ko) 상도 (드라마)		551
2	Chinese (zh) 商道		484
3	Japanese (ja) 商道		67
4	English (en) The Merchant (TV series)		39
5	Persian (fa) تاجر پوسان		26
6	Turkish (tr) Sangdo		13
7	Indonesian (id) Sangdo, Merchants of Joseon		9
8	Thai (th) อิมซังอ๊ก ยอดพ่อค้าหัวใจทระนง		7
9	Arabic (ar) التاجر (مسلسل)		6
10	Spanish (es) Sangdo (serie de televisión)		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التاجر (مسلسل)
en	English The Merchant (TV series)
es	Spanish Sangdo (serie de televisión)
fa	Persian تاجر پوسان
id	Indonesian Sangdo, Merchants of Joseon
it	Italian Sangdo
ja	Japanese 商道
ko	Korean 상도 (드라마)
th	Thai อิมซังอ๊ก ยอดพ่อค้าหัวใจทระนง
tr	Turkish Sangdo
vi	Vietnamese Thương gia (phim)
zh	Chinese 商道

Best Rank

English: #154018 07.2021

Global: #123702 12.2023

Best Rank

English: #138194 04.2022

Global: #47785 06.2019

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