Korean pop culture, in numbers

Which work is this chart row — reading a title against the markets it charted in

Two works can share a title. Which one charted?

Breathless took 250 chart places across 69 countries in our Korean panel. 5.2% of them were in Spain, and none were in South Korea.

The 16 titles removed, and what they charted as

TitlePlacesMarketsLargest marketIts shareAttributed to
Breathless25069Spain5.2%Spain
Dangerous Liaisons16570France2.4%France
One More Time5838Sweden5.2%Sweden
Undercover4824Netherlands33.3%Belgium
UFO1712Turkey29.4%Turkey
Let's Dance43France50%France
Motherland22United Kingdom50%United Kingdom
Black Jack21Japan100%Japan
Whistleblower21Japan100%Japan
Bigman21Netherlands100%Netherlands
Superstar21Spain100%Spain
#Iamhere11France100%France
#Manhole11Japan100%Japan
Supernova11Poland100%Poland
Oh My God11India100%India
StartUp11Sweden100%Sweden

Chart places. One place is one title in one country in one week.

Together they held 557 of 39,835 chart places — 1.4% of the panel.

The obvious test does not work

381 of 973 Korean titles (39.2%) never charted in Korea at all, because a drama that airs on Korean television does not appear on Netflix Korea. Absence from the home chart proves nothing on its own.

So a title is removed only when all three hold: it never charted in Korea, Wikidata attributes no Korean work at all to that name, and the market it charted in most is one Wikidata names as the origin of a same-titled foreign work. The middle condition is what makes it safe — a name a Korean work also carries is never removed.

Two we could not settle

TitlePlacesMarketWhy it stayed
Keys to the Heart3PhilippinesA Korean work carries this name
Life Is Beautiful2ItalyA Korean work carries this name

It cannot separate two works when a Korean work genuinely shares the name and the foreign one dominates the same market. Two titles failed here and were kept.

How this was counted, and what it cannot say

It says which work the chart row belongs to, not whether the other work exists, and it needs a foreign work Wikidata already knows about.

Which markets only take the wide titles · How much of our own number is checked · Which of our titles we cannot prove are Korean · What we have corrected · How we count

What we wrote from this data