Every Netflix top 10 that was all Korean

Outside Korea

Ten places is not always ten shows. Netflix lists a series’ seasons separately, so a chart can be full of Korean titles and still be one show twice — the last column says how many different shows each of these was.

At home

Korea’s own chart did it 4 times, which is the unremarkable half of this count: a country’s chart being full of its own films and shows is what most countries’ charts look like most weeks.

• 6 February 2022 — 10 different shows in ten places
• 13 February 2022 — 10 different shows in ten places
• 13 November 2022 — 9 different shows in ten places
• 22 January 2023 — 10 different shows in ten places

The near misses say more than the full house

Eight cells is too few to say which countries are the ones where this happens. So we counted the cells that came within one place — 43 of them, nine of ten places Korean. Outside Korea they fall in 4 countries, and they are the same countries.

Every country in that table is in Southeast Asia. No European, North American, Latin American or African chart has ever come within one place of it, in 50,034 country-week charts.

This is not a league table. Our clumping page deliberately names no market, because ranking 93 countries by how lopsided their Korean weeks are invites the reader to treat position as merit. Here the countries are named because what is counted is an event with a date, not a position — and what produces it is release timing and chart volatility, not quality.