Korean pop culture, in numbers

103 Korean titles in Costa Rica's Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, Costa Rica's Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 313 of them — 5.8%.

The four numbers

 Costa RicaMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places5.8%4.6%above
Different Korean titles103101near
Titles filling half those places2020near
Weeks with a Korean title194of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. Costa Rica needs 20 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 Costa Rica, out of 103 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game292112021-09-19 → 2025-07-27
My Demon9932023-12-03 → 2024-01-28
Queen of Tears9932024-03-24 → 2024-05-19
Extraordinary Attorney Woo8822022-07-31 → 2022-09-18
Love Next Door8842024-09-01 → 2024-10-20
When the Phone Rings8812024-11-24 → 2025-01-12
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty7722025-08-24 → 2025-10-05
Dynamite Kiss7712025-11-16 → 2025-12-28
King the Land7712023-07-16 → 2023-09-03
My Royal Nemesis7752026-05-10 → 2026-06-21
Agent Kim Reactivated6642026-06-28 → 2026-08-02
Beyond the Bar6652025-08-10 → 2025-09-14
Destined with You6652023-08-27 → 2023-10-15
Hierarchy6632024-06-09 → 2026-03-15
Miss Night and Day6662024-07-21 → 2024-09-01
Sold Out on You6642026-04-26 → 2026-05-31
True Beauty6622023-12-17 → 2024-01-21
Young Lady and Gentleman6662022-09-04 → 2022-10-09
All of Us Are Dead5522022-01-30 → 2022-02-27
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha5562021-11-14 → 2021-12-12

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 9.3% of Costa Rica'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 places3.1%7.5%+4.4 pp
Korean chart places32782.44×
Different Korean titles1023+13

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
202126
202232
202359
202466
202578
202652

The busiest year here was 2025 (78 places) and the quietest 2021 (26). ⚠ 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.