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Nearly Half of Korean Netflix Top 10 Titles Only Ever Charted in One Country
Across 269 weeks of Netflix's Top 10 charts in 93 tracked markets, 974 Korean titles have placed at least once. 447 of them — 45.9% — never placed top 10 anywhere but a single country. The median title charted in just 2.
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Across 269 weeks of Netflix’s public Top 10 charts, tracked in 93 markets from July 2021 to August 2026, 974 distinct Korean titles have placed in at least one country’s weekly Top 10 at least once. Of those, 447 — 45.9% — never placed top 10 anywhere but a single country. The median Korean title on this list charted in just 2 countries. The widest-reaching title charted in all 93 markets at some point.
What we counted
| Count | |
|---|---|
| Korean titles that charted at least once, anywhere | 974 |
| Charted in exactly 1 country, ever | 447 (45.9%) |
| Median number of countries charted in | 2 |
| Maximum countries charted in (one title) | 93 |
What “one country” does and does not mean
This counts chart placement, not catalogue availability. Netflix does not publish a per-country catalogue, so we can only see where a title was popular enough to place in a country’s weekly Top 10 — not everywhere it was simply available to watch. A title charting in one country is a title that broke into that country’s most-watched list at least once; it says nothing about whether the title was licensed, watchable, or simply present but outside the top 10 everywhere else, which is by far the more common situation for any title on a streaming service.
Read alongside a “K-content goes global” framing, this is a useful correction to scale, not a contradiction of it: a small number of Korean titles chart nearly everywhere, but the typical breakout title’s confirmed chart reach is narrow — most of what shows up on this list at all shows up in one place.
More single-cause and multi-day patterns are tracked on our what-moves-english-reading hub.
These are statistics, not you. This is not investment advice.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Netflix (Tudum) — Top 10 weekly charts — Weekly Top 10 lists by country, 4 July 2021-23 August 2026 (269 weeks), 93 markets tracked. · https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/
- Wikidata — Used to identify which titles and credited companies/cast are Korean, matched by item number rather than by name. · https://www.wikidata.org/
What we checked
- 974 distinct Korean titles placed in at least one country's weekly Top 10 at least once across the 269-week window.
- 447 of the 974 (45.9%) placed in exactly one country's Top 10 across the entire window — never charted anywhere else.
- The median title charted in 2 countries; the widest-reaching title charted in all 93 tracked markets at some point.
What we left out, and why
- Catalogue availability. A country not appearing for a title means only that the title never placed in that country's weekly Top 10 — Netflix publishes no per-country catalogue, so we cannot say whether it was available but simply outside the top 10, which is the far more common case.
- Whether a title is still on Netflix today, anywhere — catalogues change monthly and this is a historical chart record.
- Anything about non-Netflix services.
The data behind this
Written from the same data
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