Korean pop culture, in numbers

For rights holders, distributors and broadcasters

Netflix gives its suppliers global hours. It does not give them which country. If you hold rights to a Korean title, that is the column missing from your own reporting — and it is the one that decides where the next title opens.

We have been counting that column, publicly, since 2021-07-04.

What we hold

Weekly country top 10 lists268 weeks2021-07-04 to 2026-08-16
Markets93Russia excluded — Netflix withdrew from it
Chart places counted498,480of which 39,139 are Korean titles
Korean titles that charted974546 have a page of their own
Companies credited on them221from Wikidata production, broadcaster and distributor credits

All of it is measured from Netflix's own published lists and from Wikidata. Nothing here is licensed from a panel or estimated from a model, which is also why there are things it cannot tell you — those are listed further down, at the same size.

Three things we can hand over

1. Your titles' journey — one sheet per company

Every market each of your titles charted in, with places held, best position reached, the first and last week it appeared there, and which single market took the most of it. One page, your catalogue only.

Ready today for 19 companies — the ones whose catalogue we can see most completely. For any of the other 202 we say up front how much of your catalogue we hold before you decide, because a sheet built on half your titles is worth less than knowing it is half.

2. The market panel — 93 countries side by side

For each market: how many chart places Korean titles took, how many distinct titles that was, how few titles fill half of it, and how that has moved year by year. This is the table you want before deciding where a title opens, not after.

The public version is at catalogue depth. The deliverable is the same figures as a file, with the column dictionary and the exclusions written down.

3. The title panel — 974 Korean titles, market by market

One row per title per market: places, peak position, first and last week. The published pages carry 13,444 such rows; the file carries the rest, including the titles too thin to be worth a page.

A sample is public at every Korean title that has charted — open any of them and you are looking at the same data, one title at a time.

Questions this answers

Each of those has a public page behind it. If your question is not on this list, ask it — the useful answer is often that our tables cannot reach it, and we would rather say so.

What this data cannot tell you

A top 10 is a rank list, not a viewing count. A title outside a country's top 10 is invisible here at any level of viewing, and two titles at number 4 in different markets are not the same number of people. Netflix publishes hours only for its global lists, so we cannot weight a market by size.

We also cannot tell you why anything moved. Promotion, release timing, dubbing, a cast member in the news and a public holiday all look identical in a rank table. Anyone selling you a reason from this data is selling you something the data does not contain.

And company credits come from Wikidata, which is incomplete: a credit records that a company is attached, not how much of the work it held, and a company whose titles Wikidata does not record is absent rather than small. We publish that coverage figure beside every company-level result.

What it costs

What you getSizePrice
People panel — actors and music acts, four Southeast Asian Wikipedias, twelve months1,023 actors · 1,701 music acts$79 one-time
Places panel — Korean places read abroad, same four editions, twelve months2,219 places$79 one-time
Both panels togetherone delivery, one dictionary$129 one-time
Commissioned study — your artists or titles, written up in one sheetup to 20 names, four countries$490

One-time, not a subscription. Each panel is a dated table: a twelve-month window that does not change after you buy it. You are not renting access to a dashboard, and there is nothing to cancel. CSV and JSON, with a column dictionary that says what every field means and what it cannot mean.

Why this number. The tools this sits beside are subscriptions — Chartmetric runs about $60 to $150 a month and Soundcharts $49 to $129 a month, and both of them read streaming. None of them measure who is being read about in Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai and Malay. We priced a finished panel below one month of those tools, because it is a different thing and should not pretend to replace them.

There is no checkout on this page. You email, we answer within one working day, and we invoice. If the tables do not cover your question we say so and do not sell you the near miss.

How to ask

Email cs@klifedesign.net and say what you are trying to decide. Naming the company helps, because the first thing we will tell you is how much of your catalogue we can actually see.

What happens then. We reply within one working day, in Korean or English, with a plain answer to whether these tables cover your question — including when they do not, which is the more useful reply. If they do, you get the file and the column dictionary. If they do not, we say what would have to exist, and we do not sell you the near miss.

Before you write, read something we published. Every figure on this page has a table behind it: the markets · how far a catalogue travels · broadcast and streaming as two pipelines · titles that came back. If those look wrong to you, say so in the same email — that is a better first conversation than a price.

See it before you ask for it

19 companies have a public page showing how far their titles travelled — markets reached, how many held a title in the same week, and where the places fell. A company gets a page once 10 or more of its titles have reached a Netflix weekly top 10 — that count is the whole cut line. The sheet goes further; the page is enough to see whether the measurement is the one you need.

CompanyTitles that chartedMarketsMost at once
Cinema Service10239
CJ ENM Entertainment Division295647
CJ ENM Films & Television569282
Climax Studio109292
ENA146154
Filmmaker R&K146767
JTBC637351
KBS377354
Lotte Entertainment218989
MBC247152
Next Entertainment World257267
Plus M Entertainment122420
SBS479180
SHOWBOX Co., Ltd.375343
SLL399393
Studio Dragon289391
Studio N128883
TVING125335
tvN769273

Every company with 10 or more titles that reached a Netflix weekly top 10, in alphabetical order. The cut is a title count and nothing else, so this list is not a ranking and being on it is not a judgement. Companies with fewer than 10 charting titles have no sheet here. That is a threshold we set to keep each sheet worth reading, not a statement about the company, and not a claim about how much of its catalogue we can see. If your company is not among them, the same sheet can be built from the same data — tell us the name.

Who we are

K Culture Wire counts what Netflix and Wikidata publish about Korean film and television, names every source, and says what it left out. Not affiliated with any agency, label or studio. How we count · Every figure we have had to change · Contact