Korean pop culture, in numbers

66 Korean titles in Italy's Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, Italy's Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 164 of them — 3.1%.

The four numbers

 ItalyMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places3.1%4.6%below
Different Korean titles66101well below
Titles filling half those places1120well below
Weeks with a Korean title112of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. Italy needs 11 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 Italy, out of 66 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game372912021-09-26 → 2025-08-10
Oasis9932026-06-21 → 2026-08-16
Real Men6612025-05-25 → 2025-06-29
Agent Kim Reactivated5552026-06-28 → 2026-07-26
Bloodhounds5532023-06-18 → 2026-04-12
The Glory5542023-03-12 → 2023-04-09
All of Us Are Dead4412022-01-30 → 2022-02-20
Gossip Girl4352023-07-16 → 2023-07-30
Barbie3322025-05-18 → 2025-06-01
Desire3312026-07-19 → 2026-08-02
Summertime3312022-05-08 → 2022-05-22
That Night3322026-03-15 → 2026-03-29
The 8 Show3342024-05-26 → 2024-06-09
The Great Flood3312025-12-21 → 2026-01-04
Wrath3332026-08-02 → 2026-08-16
Badland Hunters2222024-01-28 → 2024-02-04
Ballerina2252023-10-08 → 2023-10-15
Happy Ending2222023-09-03 → 2023-09-10
JUNG_E2252023-01-22 → 2023-01-29
Kill Boksoon2262023-04-02 → 2023-04-09

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 22.6% of Italy'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 places1.6%3.9%+2.3 pp
Korean chart places17412.41×
Different Korean titles1113+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
202120
202217
202327
202417
202541
202642

The busiest year here was 2026 (42 places) and the quietest 2022 (17). ⚠ 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.