Korean pop culture, in numbers

39 Korean titles in United States' Netflix top 10

Between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-16, United States' Netflix top 10 had 5,360 places to give out across films and series. Korean titles took 85 of them — 1.6%.

The four numbers

 United StatesMedian of 93 marketsWhere it sits
Share of chart places1.6%4.6%well below
Different Korean titles39101well below
Titles filling half those places720well below
Weeks with a Korean title67of 268

“Titles filling half” is the one to read twice. United States needs 7 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 United States, out of 39 that charted at all. ⛔ This is not a ranking of quality — it records how long each stayed on the list.

TitlePlacesWeeksPeakFirst → Last
Squid Game272212021-09-19 → 2025-07-27
All of Us Are Dead5512022-01-30 → 2022-02-27
Life3352021-12-05 → 2023-01-15
The Glory3332023-03-12 → 2023-03-26
Barbie2262024-12-22 → 2024-12-29
Carter22102022-08-07 → 2022-08-14
Desire2232026-07-19 → 2026-07-26
Extraordinary Attorney Woo2292022-08-07 → 2022-08-21
Hellbound2262021-11-21 → 2021-11-28
JUNG_E2242023-01-22 → 2023-01-29
Oldboy22102021-12-26 → 2022-01-02
Safe2272023-08-13 → 2023-08-20
Tarot2252024-08-04 → 2024-08-11
The Great Flood2212025-12-21 → 2025-12-28
Wanted2282022-07-10 → 2025-07-27
Wild Card2282022-07-03 → 2022-07-10
Alice1172025-10-05 → 2025-10-05
Bloodhounds1182023-06-18 → 2023-06-18
Bogotá: City of the Lost11102025-02-09 → 2025-02-09
Bugonia1172026-05-03 → 2026-05-03

Squid Game is the largest single title here, holding 31.8% of United States' 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 places1.7%2.4%+0.7 pp
Korean chart places18251.39×
Different Korean titles11110

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
202117
202218
202311
202410
202525
20264

The busiest year here was 2025 (25 places) and the quietest 2026 (4). ⚠ 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.