Shared titles are normal: 423 of 974 Korean titles have one
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.
The table this is written from: /is-it-korean
Demon Hunter, a Christian metal band formed in 2001, has filed a trademark suit against Netflix over KPop Demon Hunters. We have no view on the merits — that is a question for a court and not for a dataset.
What we can say is what shared names look like in this corner of the business, because we have counted them.
423 of 974
Of the 974 Korean titles that reached some country’s Netflix weekly top ten between July 2021 and August 2026:
| The name belongs to a Korean work only | 525 | 53.9% |
| The same English name also belongs to a work from elsewhere | 423 | 43.4% |
| Could not be classified | 15 | 1.5% |
| Charted as Korean, but no Korean work of that name found | 11 | 1.1% |
Two in five Korean titles on these charts share their English name with something else. Not a lawsuit, not a copy — just the ordinary result of short English titles and a hundred years of film and television.
The biggest ones by chart places:
| Title | Also from | Chart places |
|---|---|---|
| The Glory | China | 601 |
| Bloodhounds | United States | 583 |
| True Beauty | Canada, United States | 489 |
| Business Proposal | Hong Kong | 464 |
| Love Next Door | Thailand | 368 |
| Little Women | Japan, UK, United States | 288 |
The country whose catalogue collides with Korean titles most often is the United States, on 285 titles, then the United Kingdom on 152 and France on 103.
Why this matters for reading a chart
If you look up a Korean title and find a different film, you have met this problem. It is also ours: when we build a page for a title, we have to decide whether the chart rows in front of us belong to the Korean work or to its namesake. For 423 titles that decision is not automatic, and we publish the verdict on each one rather than hiding it.
Eleven titles are worse than shared: they charted as Korean, and Wikidata records no Korean work under that name at all. We print those as unconfirmed instead of quietly calling them Korean.
The title at the centre of it
KPop Demon Hunters is not one of our 974. It is a US-produced animated film about K-pop, and our list is Korean productions — so it sits outside the count above, and we would rather say that than let the number stand next to it and imply otherwise.
We do measure it separately, because it charted almost everywhere: 93 countries, and Latvia held it in its top ten for 62 weeks, against 49 in the United States and 32 in South Korea. Country by country, week by week, is here.
What we are not saying
We are not saying the suit is strong or weak, and we are not saying that 423 shared names make any particular claim less serious. A count of coincidences says nothing about one case. What it does say is that in this data, sharing an English title is the normal condition rather than the exception — which is a fact worth having before reading a headline about a name.
Counted from Netflix’s public Top 10 tables and Wikidata’s country of origin. Not legal analysis.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Netflix — Public Top 10 country tables, archived 2026-09-03 — 269 weeks, 2021-07-04 to 2026-08-23 · https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10
- Wikidata — Country of origin for every work carrying the same English title, used to decide whether a charting name is Korean, shared, or unconfirmable · https://www.wikidata.org/
What we checked
- We report that a suit has been filed and nothing about its merits. Whether a name may be used is a legal question and not one a dataset can answer
- Shared here means the English name also belongs to a work from another country in Wikidata. It does not mean either work copied the other, and most collisions are ordinary coincidence
- 15 titles we could not classify at all are counted as unknown rather than pushed into either bucket, and 11 more show no Korean work under that name in Wikidata despite charting as Korean
- KPop Demon Hunters is not in our 974 Korean titles: it is a US-produced film about K-pop, and our list is Korean productions. We say so rather than let a reader assume it is counted here
- Weeks on a chart are not views. A title can hold a small country's chart for a year and be watched by fewer people than one week in a large one
The data behind this
Written from the same data
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