This year, Fortune ’s Asia team is highlighting several women leaders who are showing influence and power beyond the corporate boardroom.

Here’s who made it onto Fortune ’s first-ever “Most Influential Women” ranking: Twelve women from pop culture, policymaking and professional sports, who together show the diverse ways that power gets expressed across the Asia-Pacific.

Blackpink

Hallyu, the Korean wave, is taking over the world—and girl group Blackpink has been at its crest. Lisa, Jennie, Rosé, and Jisoo have broken numerous records since their debut in 2016: the first to sell one million, then two million, album copies in South Korea; the first Korean group to top the Billboard 200 album chart; the highest-grossing concert tour by a female artist. Blackpink, and K-pop and K-cultur

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