Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korean titles on Netflix this week

17 Korean titles held a place on some country’s Netflix weekly top 10 in the week Netflix labels 2026-08-23 — the week of 23 August 2026. Our Sticky Love reached the most countries of them, 52, and got as high as number 1 in one of them.

This is the newest week we hold, and it is 6 days old. Netflix publishes its weekly files on a delay, so “this week” here means the newest weekthey have published, not the days you are living through. We would rather say that than let the word do work the data cannot.

What changed since the week before

Netflix publishes the list. It does not publish the difference between two lists. This is that difference, against the week of 16 August 2026.

Entered — not on last week’s list3
Left — on last week’s list, not this one5
Held on, in more countries than last week2
Held on, in fewer countries5
Held on, in the same number7

“Left the chart” is not “stopped being watched”. A title drops off a country’s top 10 when ten other titles did better there that week. It may still be on Netflix, and people may still be watching it. We can only see the ten.

Entered this week

TitleKindCountriesBest place
Take a Hike!Series25
Along with the Gods: The Two WorldsFilm14
Love Next DoorSeries17

Every Korean title on a chart this week

Ordered by how many countries listed it. A chart place is one country’s weekly top 10 listing the title once — it is not a count of viewers.

TitleKindCountriesBest placevs last week
Our Sticky LoveSeries521-16
Spooky in LoveSeries441+3
Agent Kim ReactivatedSeries153-7
The Apartment JobSeries113-1
Family BusinessFilm230
Take a Hike!Series25new
OasisSeries27+1
WrathSeries28-12
I am SoloSeries110
Wild SingFilm120
Along with the Gods: The Two WorldsFilm14new
Number OneFilm160
Love Next DoorSeries17new
NoiseFilm170
Bitch and RichSeries18-3
Can This Love Be Translated?Series180
The AuditorsSeries180

On last week’s chart, not this one

Where they stood the week before they dropped off.

TitleKindCountries last weekBest place
Human VaporSeries17
Whenever PossibleSeries17
Christmas CarolFilm18
DesireFilm19
Husbands in ActionFilm110

The last 8 weeks

So you can see whether this week is a busy one or a quiet one, rather than take our word.

WeekKorean titlesCountries reached
2026-08-231754
2026-08-161968
2026-08-092074
2026-08-021671
2026-07-261592
2026-07-191692
2026-07-122286
2026-07-052090

What this is, and what it is not

A chart position is not a viewing figure. Netflix publishes hours viewed only for its global lists, so a title that charted in 40 small markets and one that charted in 40 large ones look identical here.

Two charts, not one. Netflix publishes a films list and a series list separately, and a name can sit on both as two different works. We do not add those together. Where we could not establish which work is the Korean one, neither set of numbers is published under it.

Where to walk from here

This week, country by country · Is it actually Korean? 423 names we cannot settle from a chart row · Every week we hold · Korean movies on Netflix, films only · Korean series on Netflix · Every country and how Korean its chart is · Three measures of “most popular” that disagree

How this was measured

Netflix's own weekly top 10 files by country. This page reads the newest week in those files and the week before it, keeps only the titles our Korean-title rule holds, and compares the two lists. Russia is excluded because Netflix left. A title that appears on both the films and the series chart is two different works sharing a name; we follow the chart our title records identify as the Korean one and never merge the two.

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, and a small market counts the same as a large one. Leaving a chart is not the same as being watched less: it means ten other titles did better in that country that week. Netflix also states no country of production, so which titles count as Korean is our inference. The week shown is the newest Netflix has published, which is 6 days old today.