Netflix publishes a weekly top 10 for every country it operates in, and it publishes the same list for 93 of them in one file. We counted how many of those slots went to Korean titles, week by week, from 2021-07-04 to 2026-08-16. The answer is not one number — it runs from 53.6% in South Korea down to 1.4% in Iceland, with the middle country at 4.6%.
A chart slot is not a viewing figure and it is not availability. Netflix does not publish how many people watched in a country, and it does not publish where a title can be watched at all. What is counted here is places on a published weekly list, nothing more.
Outside Korea itself, Vietnam — 30.2% of every slot on its weekly Netflix top 10, across 2021-07-04 to 2026-08-16, went to a Korean title. Korea’s own chart is 53.6%, which is a different kind of fact and why we keep it out of the line above.
| Country | Korean share of chart slots | Korean titles |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 30.2% | 261 |
| Indonesia | 28.9% | 275 |
| Malaysia | 25.1% | 259 |
| Taiwan | 24.2% | 258 |
| Thailand | 24% | 275 |
| Hong Kong | 22.9% | 246 |
| Philippines | 22.8% | 257 |
| Singapore | 22.1% | 253 |
| Japan | 20.4% | 245 |
| Bangladesh | 14.3% | 145 |
This is not a ranking of countries, and it is not a ranking of taste. A share is high when a country’s catalogue is small as easily as when its readers are keen — which is why the count of distinct Korean titles sits beside it. A country low on this list is not a country that likes Korean shows less; it is a country whose top 10 had other things in it. We put the full 93 in alphabetical order below, on purpose, for the same reason.
93 of the 93 countries have a page here. A country gets one once we hold at least 8 Korean titles for it — below that the page would be a handful of rows pretending to be a picture.
Bahamas 2.7% · Bahrain 9.6% · Bangladesh 14.3% · Belgium 2.7% · Bolivia 12.1% · Brazil 7.1% · Bulgaria 3.2%
Canada 2.1% · Chile 7.8% · Colombia 7.5% · Costa Rica 5.8% · Croatia 2% · Cyprus 2.6% · Czech Republic 3.6%
Denmark 1.7% · Dominican Republic 8.6%
Ecuador 8.9% · Egypt 6.2% · El Salvador 9.7% · Estonia 1.9%
Germany 2.7% · Greece 4.3% · Guadeloupe 4.3% · Guatemala 8.5%
Latvia 1.9% · Lebanon 4.6% · Lithuania 2% · Luxembourg 2.7%
Malaysia 25.1% · Maldives 12.1% · Malta 2.1% · Martinique 4.6% · Mauritius 5.4% · Mexico 8.4% · Morocco 9.6%
Netherlands 1.8% · New Caledonia 4.6% · New Zealand 3% · Nicaragua 10.2% · Nigeria 12.2% · Norway 2%
Oman 11.1%
Pakistan 10.7% · Panama 6.9% · Paraguay 7.5% · Peru 12.8% · Philippines 22.8% · Poland 2.9% · Portugal 3.8%
Qatar 12.9%
Saudi Arabia 12.5% · Serbia 3% · Singapore 22.1% · Slovakia 3.2% · Slovenia 2.1% · South Africa 2.7% · South Korea 53.6% · Spain 3.1% · Sri Lanka 10.1% · Sweden 2.1% · Switzerland 2.5%
Taiwan 24.2% · Thailand 24% · Trinidad and Tobago 2.8% · Turkey 6.2%
Ukraine 1.7% · United Arab Emirates 10.9% · United Kingdom 1.8% · United States 1.6% · Uruguay 2.9%
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Netflix's own weekly top 10 files, 268 weeks across 93 countries, 2021-07-04 to 2026-08-16. For each country we counted every slot on its published weekly top 10 and the share of those slots held by a Korean title. Countries are listed alphabetically, not by share, because ordering them by share would read as a ranking of countries and this is not one.
A slot on a chart is not a viewing figure, and it is not availability — Netflix publishes neither by country. Netflix also states no country of production, so which titles count as Korean is our inference. A country with a small catalogue can show a high share on very few titles, which is why the count of distinct titles is on each country page beside the share.
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