No rumours, no reprints. We count what Netflix and Wikipedia publish, name every source, and say what we left out.
Counted from Netflix’s own weekly country files. A chart place is not a viewing figure — it shows a title was on Netflix in that country that week, and nothing about how many people watched or what they thought of it.
Questions readers actually arrived with, taken from the search terms Google records for this site and rewritten as plain questions. Only questions we already have a page for are listed.
A Seoul court suspended EXO-CBX's contract with its agency on 15 September. We can't check that day's reading yet, but an earlier filing story moved all three pages together — a bigger, unexplained rise the day before hit only Baekhyun.
16 September 2026
STARPOLL's 16 September vote put NewJeans' Minji first among female idols, Irene third. Irene's English Wikipedia reading ran 1.14x Minji's over the 30 days ending the day before the vote.
16 September 2026
On the concert day and the day Lea Salonga explained why she'd unfollowed them, RM and J-Hope's English Wikipedia reading stayed inside their own 30-day range. Salonga's page spiked twice — on two other days entirely.
16 September 2026
Stray Kids became Rock in Rio's first K-pop headliner on 12 September. Their English Wikipedia reading rose 1.41x. Mamamoo's Hwasa, also on the bill, rose 2.42x — while Mamamoo's own group page fell below average within a day.
16 September 2026
A Reddit post reporting Chung Ha's split from MORE VISION lined up with a real jump in her English Wikipedia reading. But an unexplained spike three weeks earlier was still bigger — and we don't know what caused it.
15 September 2026
A report says V's Champion deal hit a record $6.3M 'media impact value' in 48 hours. The one number we can check ourselves — his English Wikipedia lookups — stayed inside its usual daily range.
15 September 2026
A fan-voting app crowned Jimin August's runaway idol champion by an 850-million-vote margin. On English Wikipedia the same month, he drew fewer lookups than two of his own bandmates — a pattern that holds again in September's first 12 days.
14 September 2026
Fan-vote apps like KDOL rank K-pop idols head-to-head. We checked one such pairing — BTS's Jung Kook and RM — the only way we can: English Wikipedia lookups. Jung Kook draws 1.7 times RM's count, in every window we hold.
14 September 2026
Two thresholds set by the data itself — 6+ weeks on a country's Netflix top 10, charting in only 1 country — catch 24 Korean titles. Three genuinely travelled abroad. The other 21 never charted anywhere but South Korea.
13 September 2026
An 11-day baseline put Hoshi at 17% of his group's own page. On the day a Korean entertainment desk reported his torn ACL, he jumped to 52% of it — while Seventeen's page traffic stayed flat.
13 September 2026
Korean outlets named Jin sales king for a sold-out plush toy. On the one number about his group we can check ourselves — a year of English Wikipedia lookups — he ranks 5th of 7 BTS members, 4th of 7 in the most recent month.
13 September 2026
Across 12 Korean titles whose English Wikipedia pages spiked, the bigger the show's own peak, the smaller its lead actor's share of that peak — a correlation of -0.68 on a hand-picked dozen, not a random sample.
13 September 2026
Hoshi tore his ACL six months before discharge — today's biggest Seventeen headline. We used it to extend a count: thirteen members against their group's Wikipedia page, cross-checked against an archive from five days earlier.
12 September 2026
We photograph the front pages of Korean forums and English-language Korea subreddits once a day. Over eight consecutive days, 0.2 percent of Korean forum posts were still there the next evening. In the subreddits it was 36 percent.
11 September 2026
We counted quoted ages in Korean front pages last night, then won amounts in the same 1,365 headlines. The business desk uses money in 22 percent and ages in none. The entertainment desk is the mirror image. No headline carried both.
11 September 2026
We keep a daily copy of three English-language Google News queries about Korea. Over nine days the phrase 'KPop Demon Hunters' appears in 645 of 1,110 K-pop items. The busiest subject in the drama feed reaches 71, in the economy feed 90.
11 September 2026
Ten days of Korean front pages, 1,365 headlines. One entertainment desk opened 27 percent of its stories with an age in quote marks. The other did it in 3 percent. The general and business papers: zero in 1,080.
11 September 2026
A forum called spreading visitors beyond the capital the unfinished task. In the admissions table 58 percent of foreign entries are already outside it, and the top district is Gangneung, not Jongno. But 112 of 206 districts count nobody.
11 September 2026
A Korean desk called it NewJeans' lost two years. We counted English Wikipedia lookups for all eight fourth-generation girl groups. NewJeans sits at 0.61x its pre-dispute reading; the other seven have a median of 0.66x. Two fell further.
11 September 2026
If you cannot read Korean, the only legible part of a front page is its Latin script. We counted every Latin word in 1,388 headline-days. The K-culture desk prints them four times as often as the general paper, and prints a different kind.
11 September 2026
Jin has topped a Korean idol poll for 68 straight weeks. On English Wikipedia lookups he is fifth of seven BTS members. But ranks three to six sit inside 7% of each other, so the ranking barely means anything in the middle.
10 September 2026
Every person named in one day of two Korean entertainment desks, against how many the English-speaking world looks up. Sixteen of eighteen are findable. The day skews to actors two to one, but per head they lead idols by just 1.13 times.
10 September 2026
One morning brought two announcements: a BLACKPINK member fronting an iPhone camera, a BIGBANG member fronting McDonald's. Our brand panel covered luxury, jewellery, fashion and cars — not phones, not burgers. So we added both.
10 September 2026
Virtual performers have been shipping for 27 years. Over twelve months the biggest virtual page beat six real K-pop groups combined — by 0.4%. Move the window one month and the lead disappears. Last month the real groups won by 3.2 times.
10 September 2026
HYBE sold 17.5% more than the year before and still reported a net loss 85 times larger. SM, JYP and YG all grew revenue and profit. Filed figures, in English, with the filing receipts named.
10 September 2026
Jennie's solo single matched a BTS record, so we counted lookups for three groups and all fifteen members. Only Lisa passed her own group page — by 7,413 out of 1.8 million. Added up, BLACKPINK's four beat its name 3.25 times.
10 September 2026
Korean entertainment labels a couple by the years between them: 14 younger, 9 younger, 9 younger, in one morning. We measured the years inside the groups instead. The median spread from oldest to youngest member is 4 years.
9 September 2026
The Asia Artist Awards is running its 2026 lineup posts under the line IN KAOHSIUNG. We had measured which language edition reads Korean stars most: Chinese leads for 306 of 478. Lee Da-hee, named today, is read 2.4x more in Chinese.
9 September 2026
We asked Wikimedia how many people opened 478 Korean entertainers' articles in 15 language editions over three months. With English set aside, Chinese leads for 306 of them and Japanese for 142. These are languages, not countries.
9 September 2026
Fans are organising around 13 October. We hold full birth dates for 9,249 Korean entertainers, so we counted every calendar day. That date holds 26 people, ranking 137th of 366. Two of the busiest single days are artefacts we can name.
9 September 2026
Chinese Wikipedia is the most-read edition for 306 of 478 Korean stars. For BTS it leads for none. Spanish tops six of the seven members; Japanese tops Jimin by 4,669 reads over three months.
9 September 2026
We sorted every one of the 428 Korean music groups on Wikidata by the sex recorded for each member. 185 are all-men, 182 all-women, 12 mixed. But 127 groups still contain a member with no sex recorded, so the mixed number can only go up.
9 September 2026
Wikimedia publishes no reader age. It does publish device, which is often used as a proxy for one. Across 372 Korean acts, desktop share barely moves with debut era: 2.9 points from the 1990s to the 2020s.
8 September 2026
Korean outlets report Jin leading one idol vote 67 weeks running and another 131. We counted English Wikipedia reads for 380 Korean acts and 1,247 members: BTS sends 65.7% of its reading to member pages, and Jin draws 11.5% of that.
8 September 2026
Cube, SM and Hybe all had something out this week. For each of nine K-pop companies we hold a reader count, but the share of the roster we can see runs 37% to 67% — so the ranking everyone wants is the one thing the data will not give.
8 September 2026
The generation labels are quoted like facts, but nobody sets them. We put 182 Korean acts against English Wikipedia reading: the bands overlap 86% to 100%, and in both boundary years we could measure, the real break sits one year away.
8 September 2026
We cannot measure event economics and do not claim to. We can measure the shape of attention: in one month, 774 Korean acts drew 2.67 million English Wikipedia reads, 24 acts hold half of it, and the lower half of the list holds 3.1%.
8 September 2026
Wikidata records a birthplace for 149 of the 3,204 Korean names we track: 4.7%. Seven were born outside Korea. Nationality is not in there at all, so the biggest Korean story about citizenship and stardom is invisible to this record.
8 September 2026
For 774 Korean acts we know the single month each was read most on English Wikipedia. By calendar month they are not even — January runs 45% above expectation, September 39% below. Among the 100 biggest peaks, none landed in February.
7 September 2026
Mattel and LEGO are only now dating their KPop Demon Hunters toys. We counted the weeks the film actually spent in each country's Netflix Top 10: 93 countries, Latvia 62, Mexico 51, the United States 49, South Korea 32.
7 September 2026
We found the single best month of 774 Korean acts on English Wikipedia and counted what survived it. The median act fell below half within two months. One group held out 65. BigBang's own last peak halved in one.
7 September 2026
Wikipedia publishes each country's most-read articles daily. Across 20 countries and 14 days, 87 Korean articles ever appeared — 63 of the 93 appearances were Japan alone. Nine countries had none.
7 September 2026
577 Korean films have reached a Netflix Top 10 somewhere since July 2021. The median one charted in a single country for three weeks. Korean series do five countries and six weeks. One film managed all 93 at once.
7 September 2026
51 comics that Korean studios adapted, measured beside the adaptations. Korean webtoon sources were out-read in 16 of 18 cases, median gap 14x. Foreign sources — mostly Japanese manga — 3.7x, and won a third of the time.
7 September 2026
For the 183 Korean acts whose whole career fits inside our measuring window, the median act's biggest month on Wikipedia came two years after debut. 35 peaked in year one. 20 waited six years or more.
7 September 2026
I Am Solo is heading to Netflix in over 190 countries. Netflix publishes weekly top tens for 94. Of 974 Korean titles that ever charted anywhere, the median reached 2 countries and 447 reached exactly one.
6 September 2026
Christian metal band Demon Hunter has sued Netflix over the name KPop Demon Hunters. Of 974 Korean titles on the Netflix charts, 423 already carry an English name that belongs to a work from somewhere else too.
6 September 2026
Korean pages carried four Jin stories in one day, one calling him the most-searched person in the world for Gucci. We cannot count Google searches, so we counted English Wikipedia reads against his own bandmates.
6 September 2026
People search the phrase for individual Korean films and shows. The Netflix files cannot answer it — but they can say where a title stands among 546. Reaching No.1 in some country turns out to be the common case, not the rare one.
6 September 2026
Korea runs a public platform holding 1,344 culture datasets — tourism, leisure, K-pop audiences. We counted every listing. Most cost nothing. Only 322 have been updated in the last twelve months.
6 September 2026
Astrology sites tell you which signs go together. Nobody checks. We counted all 4,651 member-to-member pairings inside 259 K-pop groups and set each pair of signs against chance. Every one lands between 0.75x and 1.25x.
6 September 2026
Seven members, six signs, one overlap — RM and Jung Kook, both Virgos. Drawing seven Korean stars at random gives six distinct signs 38.7% of the time, the commonest outcome there is. The population they came from is the strange part.
5 September 2026
We counted daily English Wikipedia reads for every performer named in a K-drama casting story, 14 days before against 7 days after. Four held level, two were read less afterwards, none rose. Six is a small number and we report it as six.
5 September 2026
Of the five K-pop groups that debuted in 2025, Cortis is the only one read more in English now than in its first months — 2,196 readers a day against 231. Three of the other four are read less than they were at debut.
5 September 2026
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How we count, with the row totals: charts that went all Korean · countries that hold the same list · who carries a title first · what “weeks in top 10” counts
Every figure above comes out of tables we build and keep. See what is in them →
Looking for Netflix's own Top 10 files? What is inside them, and what is missing from them →
Or go week by week: every week we hold, from 2021-07-04 →
Hold rights to a Korean title? Netflix gives you global hours, not countries. What we can hand over →
Week of 2026-07-26 · Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam · Korean-produced titles only
“Korean-produced” comes from Wikidata’s country-of-origin field — not from where it was watched. International co-productions that list Korea are counted.
“Shared title” means we cannot be sure. We match Netflix’s title text against Wikidata, and some titles name a Korean work and a foreign one at once. Where that is true we say so rather than drop the row or claim it: the flag marks a title we cannot resolve from text alone, not a title we believe is wrong. Across the whole five-year catalogue, 83.6% of the viewing sits on titles only Korean works carry.
Netflix global weekly hours viewed, summed since July 2021
English Wikipedia page views, 20260705~20260803 · 1,008 actors measured
Last 7 days against the first 7 of the window · at least 300 views this week
Attention is not popularity. A page climbs for good news and bad. We report the count, not the reason.
Korea reaches Netflix’s global chart with 151 series and 86 films — and collects 22.3 billion hours from the series against 1.5 billion from the films. A quarter of those films go to number one, so it is not that they go unnoticed.
Every Korean musician and group with an English Wikipedia article —2,372 of them — counted over 30 days. Attention, not popularity: a page climbs for good news and bad, and we report the count rather than the reason.
Netflix publishes a top 10 for 93 markets. We counted the Korean titles in each — how much of the chart they took, how many different titles it was, and which ones stayed longest. 93 of those markets have a page of their own. A market at the median gives Korean titles 4.6% of its places across 101 different titles.
Every figure above counts chart places, and a place at number one counts the same as a place at number ten. They do not arrive in equal numbers. In the 21 markets where Korean titles hold 5–10% of the chart, they hold only 5.5% of number-one places. In the 10 markets where they are strongest it runs the other way — 36.6% against 27.4% overall.
Across 220 companies with a Korean title that has charted, catalogue size tracks how many countries the catalogue reaches between them (r = 0.516) and not how far any one title goes (r = -0.118). A company with 20 or more charting titles gets 11.1 markets out of its median title; one with two gets 13.5.
Of 287 charting Korean series with a company credit, 238 aired on a Korean television network first and reach a median 4 markets. The 49 with no broadcaster on record reach a median 39. The network titles are still the larger half of the chart — 60.6% of the places — because there are nearly five times as many of them.
A Korean title sometimes leaves a country's top 10 and comes back. Of the 924 gaps of 4 weeks or more that end that way, 43.6% carry a different season label — a new season, not a return. Of the 315 genuine returns, 94.3% happen with no other season of the same title anywhere near them, which is not what we expected to find.
We measured 1,019 Korean actors and singers by how many people opened their English Wikipedia article in the last 30 days. So Ji-sub is first, Jung Hae-in second, V third — the hundred, in order. We re-measure every month, so it moves.
Readers, not searches. We do not buy keyword data and do not pretend to have it.
And one page per calendar day, so you can start from a birthday you already know: 16 May is IU's, 1 September is Jungkook's, 11 February is ROSÉ's — all 366 days. Sharing a birthday means sharing a birthday, and we say so on every one of them.
Not a reading, a count. By birth day there are ten rooms: the day-pillar count across 9,249 Korean entertainers, with the names on ten pages — Jungkook on 丙 byeong, Suga on 己 gi, IU on 丁 jeong. The nine reading rooms are a different axis again — what charted where, who made it, and which titles ran for weeks almost nowhere.
We counted whether any of it picks out who gets famous. It does not. The birth-year spread across 1,047 charting actors is indistinguishable from chance — chi-square 7.77 against a threshold of 19.68, and the names and the test are here. The day-stem spread crossed the 0.05 line by a hair, and we tried four ways to kill it before deciding not to call it a finding.
Not included: other streaming services, which publish no comparable ranking · broadcast ratings · actors with no English Wikipedia article (336 of 1,344 in our roster).
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