Thu Sep 17 — Agency BELIFT LAB confirmed on 16 September that ILLIT's 'It's Me' had passed 100 million streams in Japan — the group's third song to do so. English Wikipedia reading of ILLIT that day sat at 0.93x its 30-day average.
Mon Sep 07 — Wikipedia publishes each country's most-read articles daily. Across 20 countries and 14 days, 87 Korean articles ever appeared — 63 of the 93 appearances were Japan alone. Nine countries had none.
Thu Sep 03 — It is the longest any Korean title has spent in one country's Netflix top 10. The 72 weeks are spread across 96 weeks of calendar, and the longest unbroken run inside them is 53. Squid Game's 43 weeks in India span 201.
Tue Sep 01 — Across 93 Netflix markets, the countries that see the most Korean titles also keep each one on the chart longest. The two move together, correlation 0.72. Vietnam gives a Korean title three times the shelf life Britain does.
Sun Aug 16 — Reads of Korean language, hangul, hanbok and taekwondo fell 25.5% across four Southeast Asian Wikipedias in a year. The Japanese equivalents fell 28.2%. Two other genres we measured could not be used at all, and we say why.
Thu Aug 06 — Korean music exports went from $22m in 2005 to $1.80bn in 2024. Japan's share more than halved — but Japanese sales grew 1.7× since 2018 while North America grew 39×. The concentration broke because everywhere else caught up.
We hold 417 tags in all. 242 of them are on a single piece, and we do not publish a page for those — the tag still shows on the article, it just does not become an address of its own.