Korean pop culture, in numbers

122 Korean titles in Ecuador's Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, Ecuador's Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 478 of them — 8.9%.

The four numbers

 EcuadorMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places8.9%4.6%well above
Different Korean titles122101above
Titles filling half those places2620above
Weeks with a Korean title228of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. Ecuador needs 26 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 Ecuador, out of 122 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game382812021-09-19 → 2025-08-10
True Beauty171712023-12-17 → 2024-08-04
My Demon111112023-12-03 → 2024-02-11
King the Land101012023-07-16 → 2023-09-17
Queen of Tears101022024-03-24 → 2024-05-26
All of Us Are Dead9922022-01-30 → 2022-03-27
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty9912025-08-24 → 2025-10-19
Doctor Slump9922024-03-03 → 2024-04-28
Extraordinary Attorney Woo9922022-07-24 → 2022-09-25
Love Next Door9932024-09-01 → 2024-10-27
Dynamite Kiss8822025-11-16 → 2026-01-04
Miss Night and Day8842024-07-21 → 2024-09-08
My Royal Nemesis8822026-05-10 → 2026-06-28
When Life Gives You Tangerines8822025-03-16 → 2025-05-04
When the Phone Rings8812024-11-24 → 2025-01-12
All For Love7772021-08-29 → 2022-01-23
Bloodhounds7622023-06-18 → 2026-04-19
Destined with You7762023-08-27 → 2023-10-08
Sold Out on You7722026-04-26 → 2026-06-07
Strong Girl Nam-soon7742023-10-15 → 2023-11-26

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 7.9% of Ecuador'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 places5.1%11.2%+6.1 pp
Korean chart places531162.19×
Different Korean titles1826+8

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
202136
202253
202393
2024108
2025116
202672

The busiest year here was 2025 (116 places) and the quietest 2021 (36). ⚠ 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.