Which country has the strongest national power in 2025 year?

AI’s answer was this: “Global power rankings may vary slightly depending on the evaluating institution or criteria. Based on various sources, the top 10 countries in 2025 are approximately as follows:

2025 Global Power Ranking (Top 10)

United States China Russia United Kingdom Germany South Korea France Japan Saudi Arabia Israel

This ranking is the result of a comprehensive evaluation of various factors such as military strength, economic power, political influence, and diplomatic power.”

So, I searched the website that provided this data. It was the ‘POWER’ category on the US News website, which they observe annually. AI misunderstood ‘national power’. This was actually a military power ranking.

So, shouldn’t we look at it comprehensively?! What is South Korea’s overall score?

On that website, when you click on South Korea, the overall rank is displayed as #18. [Link: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/south-korea] See How South Korea Ranks Here’s how South Korea stacks up against the rest of the world. www.usnews.c

The main factors that make up South Korea’s Overall Rank: Each category evaluates a specific aspect of a country, and these scores are combined to determine the overall rank.

1. Adventure
   • Score: 22.8, Rank: #51
   • Description: Evaluates factors related to travel and tourism experience, such as friendliness, fun, climate, scenery, and sexiness. It’s closer to ‘travel appeal’ than ‘adventure’.
2. Agility
   • Score: 74.8, Rank: #10
   • Description: Evaluates how well a country adapts and responds to the challenges of the modern world, including dynamism, progressiveness, responsiveness, and adaptability. It represents a country’s flexible response capability to economic changes or global issues.
3. Cultural Influence
   • Score: 63.9, Rank: #7
   • Description: Evaluates cultural influence. It includes contributions to global cultural trends such as modern culture, entertainment, trends, fashion, and food.
4. Entrepreneurship
   • Score: 80.8, Rank: #7
   • Description: Evaluates how favorable the environment is for starting and growing businesses, including innovation, technological expertise, skilled labor, transparent business practices, and legal frameworks.
5. Heritage
   • Score: 39.0, Rank: #32
   • Description: Evaluates the depth and appeal of a country’s historical and cultural heritage, such as rich history, cultural accessibility, great food, and many cultural attractions.
6. Movers
   • Score: 79.1, Rank: #5
   • Description: Evaluates countries with forward-looking and dynamic economies. It refers to countries showing rapid economic growth and change, and future potential.
7. Open for Business
   • Score: 46.4, Rank: #70
   • Description: Evaluates how open and easy it is to do business, including low manufacturing costs, favorable tax environment, lack of bureaucracy, and absence of corruption.
8. Power
   • Score: 64.3, Rank: #6
   • Description: Comprehensively evaluates a country’s ability to exert influence globally, including economic power, military strength, political influence, international alliances, and cultural influence.
9. Quality of Life
   • Score: 50.3, Rank: #25
   • Description: Evaluates how well citizens live, including economic stability, family-friendliness, job market, political stability, safety, public health system, and education system.
10. Social Purpose
    • Score: 12.4, Rank: #42
    • Description: Evaluates a country’s commitment to social and environmental responsibilities, such as respect for human rights, environmental awareness, climate goal commitments, gender equality, religious freedom, and trustworthiness.

The scores and ranks of these categories are combined to determine South Korea’s final Overall Rank (#18) and Overall Score (78.1 points). Being a ‘Mover’ is a very positive signal. However, in terms of Quality of Life, there’s still a long way to go. This is a fact that we, the citizens, know well.

Finally, I’d like to introduce the country with the #1 overall score: It’s Switzerland. Also, Canada, Austria, and Sweden, which are not on the list above, were ranked as top countries to live in, because citizen satisfaction

greatly influences a country’s overall score.

From the US perspective, South Korea’s rank is #18, but since our national power is something our generation is building, I support and encourage everyone who is working hard for South Korea to achieve the #1 overall score, and I praise all the beautiful citizens of South Korea who are doing their best and working hard today.