IU appears in 5 Korean titles (3 TV, 2 film) that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 somewhere in the world. Together those titles took 401 chart places in 45 countries. The one that travelled furthest is When Life Gives You Tangerines, which charted in 43 of them.
One title carries most of it. When Life Gives You Tangerines holds 344 of the 401 chart places, and 4 other titles make up the remainder. At least one of these titles reached number one somewhere: When Life Gives You Tangerines. The places are spread over 45 countries. The charting runs from 2021 to 2025.
This is a floor, not a filmography. It counts only Netflix top-10 charting titles that we have enough weekly data to publish a page for. IU has other credits that are not here, and we cannot tell you how many.
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Ordered by chart places. “Places” is how many country-week top-10 slots the title took. “Peak” is the best rank it reached anywhere. Each title links to its own page, where you can see the countries one by one.
| Title | Kind | Places | Countries | Weeks | Peak | First charted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| When Life Gives You Tangerines | TV | 344 | 43 | 21 | 1 | 2025-03-09 |
| Dream | Film | 43 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2023-07-30 |
| My Mister | TV | 8 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2021-07-04 |
| Broker | Film | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2023-01-01 |
| Dream High | TV | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2022-07-31 |
Every country-week slot any IU title took, added up by country. A person can appear in a country through more than one title, so the titles column says how many of the 5 charted there.
| Country | Chart places | Titles | Best rank there |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | 33 | 4 | #1 |
| Bangladesh | 23 | 2 | #2 |
| India | 15 | 2 | #2 |
| Taiwan | 15 | 2 | #1 |
| Hong Kong | 13 | 2 | #1 |
| Peru | 13 | 2 | #1 |
| Vietnam | 13 | 2 | #1 |
| Indonesia | 12 | 2 | #1 |
Top 8 of 45 countries by chart places. No single country charted all 5 titles. “Best rank there” is the highest position any of the titles reached in that country, and a dash means the rank was not recorded.
IU was born on 1993-05-16, which places IU under Taurus. This is worked out from the date, not read from anything.
We do not read star signs and make no claim about what one means. The sign is the segment of the sky the sun was passing through on that date, and that is the whole of it. We measured whether signs pair up in real K-pop groups and found nothing that chance would not give.
IU was born on 1993-05-16, which makes IU 33 on 2026-08-25.
We print the date as well as the number so this page still reads correctly after it goes stale. The age above is worked out for 2026-08-25 and nothing else.
305 Korean actors and singers were born in 1993 — the same year as IU.
Source: Wikidata birth date (P569). We do not hold a height, a blood type, or a relationship status for IU, and we would rather say so than fill the cell.
Everything on this IU page is counted from Netflix’s published weekly country top 10s joined to Wikidata cast lists. It is a record of where IU’s work travelled, not a ranking of IU. This is a statistic, not a person.