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Park Bo-gum on Netflix's Charts: When Life Gives You Tangerines Reached 43 Countries, Encounter 16

On Netflix's weekly country lists since July 2021, Park Bo-gum's widest title is When Life Gives You Tangerines, in 43 of 93 countries. Encounter is next at 16. Reply 1988 reached only 5 countries but stayed 39 weeks.

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Park Bo-gum returns in November with the second season of tvN’s variety series The Village Barber, now with Ko Kyung-pyo, his co-star from Reply 1988 (Soompi). His drama record on Netflix is lopsided: one title carries almost all of his reach.

Netflix publishes a weekly top 10 for each of 93 countries. We matched every title Park Bo-gum appears in, as listed in his English Wikipedia filmography, against every list since July 2021.

Lead roles

Title Type Countries Weeks on any chart Best position
When Life Gives You Tangerines Series 43 21 1
Encounter Series 16 10 2
Wonderland Film 9 8 2
Reply 1988 Series 5 39 3
Seobok Film 2 3 4
Love in the Moonlight Series 1 2 6

When Life Gives You Tangerines reached 43 countries, 42 of them in the same week. Nothing else of his passed 16.

Reply 1988 is the opposite shape. It never went beyond five countries, but it stayed 39 weeks, longer than any other title of his. Encounter, with Song Hye-kyo, charted in 16 countries, mostly in Asia and the Gulf.

Supporting film roles

Title Countries Weeks Best position
A Hard Day 2 3 2
Coin Locker Girl 1 2 6

Record of Youth, Hello Monster and Good Boy do not appear on any country list since July 2021. That means not in a top 10, not unwatched.

Who reads about him

His English Wikipedia article is not where most of the reading happens. Over the 30 days to 25 October 2026 the Park Bo-gum article was read 100,250 times across 43 language editions.

Edition Reads, 26 Sep to 25 Oct 2026
English 40,677
Chinese 19,642
Japanese 13,042
Korean 5,231
Spanish 5,130

English was 41% of the total; Chinese and Japanese together were another 33%. Korean readers mostly use Namuwiki, which publishes no counts, so the Korean figure says little about interest in Korea.

What this does and does not say

Chart positions are not audiences, and these lists start in July 2021. A title is matched by its exact name on Netflix’s lists; where a different title shares the name, we left it out and said so above. More Korean series, ranked by weeks and by countries, are on our Netflix chart page.

Netflix Top 10 weekly country lists, July 2021 to 18 October 2026; filmography from English Wikipedia; reading from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Where these numbers come from

Sources

What we checked

  • When Life Gives You Tangerines: 43 countries, 21 weeks, best position 1, 42 countries in the same week at its widest.
  • Encounter: 16 countries, 10 weeks, best position 2. Reply 1988: 5 countries, 39 weeks, best position 3. Wonderland (film): 9 countries, 8 weeks. Seobok (film): 2 countries. Love in the Moonlight: 1 country.
  • Supporting film roles: A Hard Day 2 countries, Coin Locker Girl 1.
  • Not on any country list since July 2021: Record of Youth, Hello Monster, Good Boy.
  • Wikipedia, 26 September to 25 October 2026: 100,250 reads across 43 language editions; English 40,677, Chinese 19,642, Japanese 13,042, Korean 5,231, Spanish 5,130.

What we left out, and why

  • Itaewon Class (4 countries, 64 weeks): Park Bo-gum appears only in a cameo.
  • A 2026 film called Blind that charted in one country: we could not confirm it is the 2011 film he appears in.
  • Anything before July 2021, when Netflix began publishing country lists. Record of Youth (2020) falls before it.
  • Viewer numbers. A chart position is not an audience.

The data behind this

Written from the same data

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