Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korean titles on Netflix in Sweden

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-07-26, Sweden's Netflix top 10 had 5,300 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 113 of them — 2.1%.

The four numbers

 SwedenMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places2.1%4.5%well below
Different Korean titles5197well below
Titles filling half those places819well below
Weeks with a Korean title94of 265

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. Sweden needs 8 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 Sweden, out of 51 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game282212021-09-19 → 2025-08-03
Love me8422024-02-11 → 2024-03-03
All of Us Are Dead5512022-01-30 → 2022-02-27
Memory5512022-12-04 → 2023-01-01
Agent Kim Reactivated3362026-07-05 → 2026-07-19
Band of Brothers3372023-09-24 → 2023-10-08
Gossip Girl3362023-07-16 → 2023-07-30
One More Time3312023-04-23 → 2023-05-07
Badland Hunters2272024-01-28 → 2024-02-04
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty22102025-08-31 → 2025-09-07
Carter2252022-08-07 → 2022-08-14
Desire2232026-07-19 → 2026-07-26
JUNG_E2282023-01-22 → 2023-01-29
Kill Boksoon2282023-04-02 → 2023-04-09
Mine2232023-03-05 → 2023-03-12
Snowpiercer2292022-02-20 → 2022-03-06
The Great Flood2242025-12-21 → 2025-12-28
The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure2282022-03-06 → 2022-03-13
The Silent Sea2292021-12-26 → 2022-01-02
Uprising2282024-10-13 → 2024-10-20

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 24.8% of Sweden'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.

Year by year

YearKorean chart places
202118
202221
202323
202416
202525
202610

The busiest year here was 2025 (25 places) and the quietest 2026 (10). ⚠ 2021 begins on 2021-07-04 and the final year ends on 2026-07-26, so those two are partial years and cannot be compared with the rest.

Where these numbers come from, and what they cannot answer

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