Korean pop culture, in numbers

Most popular Korean drama on Netflix?

It depends entirely on what you count, and we are not going to hide that behind one list.All of Us Are Dead reached the most countries.Crash Landing on You stayed on a chart the longest.Squid Game took the most chart places. Three questions that sound like one question, three different winners.

None of this measures quality, and none of it counts viewers. Netflix publishes no hours and no audience by country — only a weekly list of ten. So “popular” here means one thing precisely: it was on that list. We will not tell you which Korean drama is best, because that is not ours to say.

How little the three lists agree

Taking the top ten by each measure and counting how many titles they share:

Reach and staying power1 of 10
Reach and chart places3 of 10
Staying power and chart places4 of 10

Exactly one title is on all three lists: Squid Game. That is the whole point of this page. A single ranking would have buried it.

We threw one measure away. “Widest in a single week” produced a top ten that shared 10 of 10 titles with reach — the same measure wearing a second name. Its top ten matched the reach top ten, so it is the same measure wearing a second name. Showing both would suggest we look at four things when we look at three.

We also cannot rank by best position reached: 233 titles have reached number one somewhere, so that column separates almost nothing.

Reached the most countries

How many of the countries we hold ever put it in their weekly top 10. Counted for 528 of 528 titles; the top 20 are shown.

TitleKindcountriesCountriesWeeksBest place
All of Us Are DeadSeries9393341
Squid GameSeries9393601
The Great FloodFilm9393111
CarterFilm929251
HellboundSeries929291
My NameSeries919191
The GlorySeries9191291
DesireFilm909021
Badland HuntersFilm8989101
BallerinaFilm8989181
Officer Black BeltFilm898971
BloodhoundsSeries8787171
JUNG_EFilm878741
Kill BoksoonFilm8484111
Parasyte: The GreySeries8484111
Narco-SaintsSeries8282101
OasisSeries828262
Agent Kim ReactivatedSeries818151
Black KnightSeries797981
Bon Appétit, Your MajestySeries7979121

Stayed the longest

How many weeks it held a place anywhere, added up. Counted for 528 of 528 titles; the top 20 are shown.

TitleKindweeksCountriesWeeksBest place
Crash Landing on YouSeries7710772
VincenzoSeries7617763
Itaewon ClassSeries644641
Squid GameSeries6093601
Boys Over FlowersSeries497491
Taxi DriverSeries4622461
Alchemy of SoulsSeries4545451
Business ProposalSeries4458441
True BeautySeries4453441
Little WomenFilm4072401
KingdomFilm3931391
Reply 1988Series395393
Extraordinary Attorney WooSeries3757371
The PromiseFilm372372
All of Us Are DeadSeries3493341
Hometown Cha-Cha-ChaSeries3440341
TarotFilm3454341
Solo LevelingSeries2911291
The GlorySeries2991291
Man in LoveFilm287281

Took the most chart places

Every country-week slot it occupied, added up — breadth and duration together. Counted for 528 of 528 titles; the top 20 are shown.

TitleKindplacesCountriesWeeksBest place
Squid GameSeries3,22893601
Alchemy of SoulsSeries62345451
All of Us Are DeadSeries61993341
The GlorySeries60191291
BloodhoundsSeries58387171
Extraordinary Attorney WooSeries51857371
My DemonSeries50666201
Bon Appétit, Your MajestySeries50279121
True BeautySeries48953441
Business ProposalSeries46458441
King the LandSeries45255221
Queen of TearsSeries44346221
When the Phone RingsSeries37252101
Hometown Cha-Cha-ChaSeries37140341
Love Next DoorSeries36853131
Agent Kim ReactivatedSeries3588151
The Great FloodFilm35193111
Young Lady and GentlemanSeries35154171
When Life Gives You TangerinesSeries34443211
My Royal NemesisSeries33849101

What this is, and what it is not

Three different ways of asking which Korean title did best on Netflix, each one counted from the same weekly files. They are shown side by side rather than merged, because merging them would hide the fact that they disagree.

Not this. Not a judgement of quality — we do not rank Korean titles by how good they are, and a chart place is not a viewing figure. Netflix publishes no hours or viewers by country, so nothing here measures how many people watched.

Where to walk from here

The ones that ran and ran, almost nowhere · Where each title could actually be watched · Every country and how Korean its chart is · Who made them · Every Korean title we hold

How this was measured

Netflix's own weekly top 10 files, 265 weeks across 93 countries, 2021-07-04 to 2026-07-26. Reach counts the distinct countries that ever listed a title. Staying power adds up the weeks it held a place anywhere. Chart places counts every country-week slot it occupied. Each list is drawn from the same files and shown separately; we do not combine them into a single score, because the point of the page is that they disagree.

What this cannot tell you

A chart place is not a viewing figure — Netflix publishes no hours or viewers by country, so nothing here says how many people watched. None of these measures is a judgement of quality. Best position reached cannot be used to rank, because 233 titles have reached number one in some country. Netflix also states no country of production, so which titles count as Korean is our inference.