Korean pop culture, in numbers

56 Korean titles in Canada's Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, Canada's Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 112 of them — 2.1%.

The four numbers

 CanadaMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places2.1%4.6%well below
Different Korean titles56101well below
Titles filling half those places1220well below
Weeks with a Korean title89of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. Canada needs 12 titles to cover half of its Korean chart places. A market that needs few is not a smaller market — it is a market where the same titles return. A market that needs many rotates through more of the catalogue. Neither is better; they are different questions. The same figure for every market →

The titles that took those places

The 20 titles with the most chart places in Canada, out of 56 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game252112021-09-19 → 2025-07-27
All of Us Are Dead5512022-01-30 → 2022-02-27
Agent Kim Reactivated4472026-06-28 → 2026-07-19
The Glory4442023-01-08 → 2023-03-26
Gossip Girl3342024-06-16 → 2024-06-30
Runaway3362023-11-19 → 2023-12-03
The Great Flood3322025-12-21 → 2026-01-04
Angel Eyes2262022-07-03 → 2022-07-10
Badland Hunters2282024-01-28 → 2024-02-04
Barbie2232025-03-16 → 2025-03-23
Carter2252022-08-07 → 2022-08-14
Desire2242026-07-19 → 2026-07-26
Eden2252023-11-05 → 2023-11-12
Hellbound2242021-11-21 → 2021-11-28
JUNG_E2282023-01-22 → 2023-01-29
Long Distance2272026-06-14 → 2026-06-21
Spy2252024-12-15 → 2024-12-22
Tarot2232026-01-04 → 2026-01-11
The House2212025-01-12 → 2025-01-19
The Rewrite2252024-03-24 → 2024-03-31

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 22.3% of Canada's Korean places by itself. Places counts one title on one weekly list; a title can hold a place for many weeks. Peak is the highest position it reached.

Which way it moved, 2022 to 2025

 20222025Change
Share of chart places1.5%2.1%+0.6 pp
Korean chart places16221.38×
Different Korean titles108-2

Both years are 52 weeks long and each week gives out 20 places, so the two columns are counted the same way. Across all 93 markets, 70 rose and 22 fell.

What this cannot tell you. A falling share can mean fewer Korean titles charted or that other titles pushed them out, and a chart position cannot tell those apart. That is why the place counts and the distinct-title counts are printed beside every share.

The same two years for every market →

Year by year

YearKorean chart places
202119
202216
202322
202420
202522
202613

The busiest year here was 2023 (22 places) and the quietest 2026 (13). ⚠ 2021 begins on 2021-07-04 and the final year ends on 2026-08-16, so those two are partial years and cannot be compared with the rest.

Where these numbers come from, and what they cannot answer

← All 93 markets side by side · Looking for one particular week? · Looking for the TSV files themselves? · Every Korean title that has charted · How we count

Put this country in context

The same weekly files, read the other way round.