Korean pop culture, in numbers

138 Korean titles in Sri Lanka's Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, Sri Lanka's Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 541 of them — 10.1%.

The four numbers

 Sri LankaMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places10.1%4.6%well above
Different Korean titles138101above
Titles filling half those places2520above
Weeks with a Korean title250of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. Sri Lanka needs 25 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 Sri Lanka, out of 138 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game433112021-09-26 → 2025-08-17
Alchemy of Souls191612022-07-10 → 2023-01-15
Business Proposal131312022-03-13 → 2022-06-12
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty121212025-08-24 → 2025-11-09
My Demon111112023-11-26 → 2024-02-04
True Beauty111112023-02-12 → 2023-04-23
Extraordinary Attorney Woo101012022-07-10 → 2022-09-11
King the Land101022023-06-18 → 2023-08-20
Mr. Queen101012023-02-19 → 2023-04-23
Queen of Tears101022024-03-10 → 2024-05-12
The Glory101012023-01-01 → 2023-04-16
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha9932021-09-19 → 2021-11-14
Love Next Door9922024-08-18 → 2024-10-13
When Life Gives You Tangerines9932025-03-16 → 2025-05-11
Young Lady and Gentleman9922022-08-28 → 2022-10-23
Agent Kim Reactivated8812026-06-28 → 2026-08-16
All of Us Are Dead8812022-01-30 → 2022-04-10
Doctor Slump8832024-01-28 → 2024-03-24
My Royal Nemesis8822026-05-10 → 2026-06-28
The King's Affection8822021-11-07 → 2021-12-26

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 7.9% of Sri Lanka'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 places11%10.2%-0.8 pp
Korean chart places1141060.93×
Different Korean titles3027-3

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
202156
2022114
2023107
202489
2025106
202669

The busiest year here was 2022 (114 places) and the quietest 2021 (56). ⚠ 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.