Korean pop culture, in numbers

176 Korean titles in Qatar's Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, Qatar's Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 689 of them — 12.9%.

The four numbers

 QatarMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places12.9%4.6%well above
Different Korean titles176101well above
Titles filling half those places3820well above
Weeks with a Korean title260of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. Qatar needs 38 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 Qatar, out of 176 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game403012021-09-19 → 2025-08-10
Alchemy of Souls181612022-07-03 → 2023-01-15
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha121222021-09-05 → 2021-11-21
True Beauty121212023-02-12 → 2023-04-30
Business Proposal111112022-03-13 → 2022-05-22
Queen of Tears111122024-03-10 → 2024-05-19
Extraordinary Attorney Woo101012022-07-10 → 2022-09-11
King the Land101012023-06-18 → 2023-08-20
My Demon101032023-11-26 → 2024-01-28
The Glory101012023-01-01 → 2023-04-16
Young Lady and Gentleman101012022-08-28 → 2022-10-30
Bloodhounds9722023-06-11 → 2026-04-19
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty9912025-08-24 → 2025-10-19
Mr. Queen9912023-02-19 → 2023-04-16
Agent Kim Reactivated8812026-06-28 → 2026-08-16
Doctor Slump8822024-01-28 → 2024-03-17
Gyeongseong Creature8822023-12-24 → 2024-10-13
Love Next Door8822024-08-18 → 2024-10-06
Miss Night and Day8822024-06-23 → 2024-08-11
My Royal Nemesis8832026-05-10 → 2026-06-28

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 5.8% of Qatar'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 places13.4%12%-1.4 pp
Korean chart places1391250.9×
Different Korean titles3831-7

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
202165
2022139
2023153
2024120
2025125
202687

The busiest year here was 2023 (153 places) and the quietest 2021 (65). ⚠ 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.