Korean pop culture, in numbers

131 Korean titles in El Salvador's Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, El Salvador's Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 521 of them — 9.7%.

The four numbers

 El SalvadorMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places9.7%4.6%well above
Different Korean titles131101above
Titles filling half those places2820above
Weeks with a Korean title241of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. El Salvador needs 28 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 El Salvador, out of 131 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game352512021-09-19 → 2025-08-10
True Beauty141412023-12-17 → 2024-08-04
King the Land111112023-07-16 → 2023-10-01
Extraordinary Attorney Woo101012022-07-24 → 2022-09-25
My Demon101012023-12-03 → 2024-02-04
Queen of Tears101012024-03-24 → 2024-05-26
When Life Gives You Tangerines101022025-03-09 → 2025-05-11
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty9912025-08-24 → 2025-10-19
Love Next Door9922024-09-01 → 2024-10-27
Miss Night and Day9932024-07-14 → 2024-09-08
All of Us Are Dead8822022-01-30 → 2022-03-20
Destined with You8822023-08-27 → 2023-10-15
Doctor Slump8822024-03-03 → 2024-04-21
Dynamite Kiss8812025-11-16 → 2026-01-04
Hierarchy8812024-06-09 → 2026-03-08
My Royal Nemesis8812026-05-10 → 2026-06-28
Sold Out on You8812026-04-26 → 2026-06-14
Strong Girl Nam-soon8822023-10-08 → 2023-11-26
When the Phone Rings8812024-11-24 → 2025-01-12
Young Lady and Gentleman8822022-09-04 → 2022-10-23

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 6.7% of El Salvador'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 places6%11.5%+5.5 pp
Korean chart places621201.94×
Different Korean titles1629+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
202140
202262
2023113
2024114
2025120
202672

The busiest year here was 2025 (120 places) and the quietest 2021 (40). ⚠ 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.