Korean pop culture, in numbers

Awake

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 38 of 93 countries, holding 79 chart places across 9 weeks between 2023-09-03 and 2026-03-29. Its best position anywhere was number 1.

It reached 38 of the 93 countries — further than 95% of the Korean films in this data. It reached number one in 11 of them — Croatia, Greece, Kenya, New Zealand and 7 more. Its longest presence was in Serbia, where it held 6 chart places. It did not travel in a straight line: 33 chart places in 2023, down to 3 in 2024, then 43 in 2026. Its widest single week was 2026-02-01, when it sat on 24 country charts at once. It first appeared on 2023-09-03 and was last seen on 2026-03-29, 31 months apart. It usually left charts from partway up rather than from the bottom — only 12 of 44 departures came from the bottom three.

Awake on Netflix, country by country — all 38 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Australia132026-02-012026-02-01
Austria222026-02-012026-02-08
Bulgaria222023-09-032023-09-10
Croatia512023-09-032026-02-08
Czech Republic222023-09-032023-09-10
Denmark142026-02-012026-02-01
Estonia222023-09-032023-09-10
France172026-02-012026-02-01
Germany132026-02-012026-02-01
Greece412023-09-032026-02-01
Guadeloupe272026-02-012026-02-08
Guatemala192026-03-292026-03-29
Hungary232023-09-032023-09-10
Iceland192026-02-082026-02-08
Ireland142024-12-012024-12-01
Kenya212026-02-012026-02-08
Latvia232023-09-032023-09-10
Lithuania222023-09-032023-09-10
Luxembourg192026-02-082026-02-08
Malta142024-11-242024-11-24
Martinique282026-02-012026-02-08
New Caledonia222026-02-012026-02-08
New Zealand212026-02-012026-02-08
Nicaragua1102026-03-292026-03-29
Nigeria242026-02-012026-02-08
Norway162026-02-012026-02-01
Poland512023-09-032026-02-08
Portugal132026-02-012026-02-01
Réunion112026-02-012026-02-01
Romania512023-09-032026-02-08
Serbia612023-09-032026-02-08
Slovakia222023-09-032023-09-10
Slovenia512023-09-032026-02-08
South Africa212026-02-012026-02-08
Spain212026-02-012026-02-08
Sweden152026-02-012026-02-01
Switzerland252026-02-012026-02-08
United Kingdom1102024-12-012024-12-01

Markets are in alphabetical order, not in order of size. A market name is a link only where that country has a page of its own; the rest are plain text rather than a link that goes nowhere.

What a place is. A place is one appearance in one country's weekly top 10. A title that sat at number 4 in Vietnam for three weeks holds three places there. Reach counts the countries a title appeared in at least once, out of 93.

Charted here is not the same as available here. A chart place does show the title was on Netflix in that country that week — that much follows. The reverse does not: a country missing from this list may still have carried the title without it reaching a top 10. We hold chart lists, not catalogue listings, and we do not guess the difference.

Awake — hit or flop?

We will not say, and neither can the chart. Netflix's country lists record that a title held a top-ten place in a country in a week. They do not record how many people watched it, what it cost, or what anyone expected of it — and those are the three things the words hit and flop are actually about.

What we can tell you is where it sits. Of the 546 Korean titles with a page here, 103 reached more markets than Awake and 439 reached fewer. It travelled further than the typical Korean title that charted at all, which reached 2.

That is a position, not a verdict. A title can hold a hundred chart places in small markets and a title can hold four in the largest ones; the file does not say which of those a person means by success. You have the shape — the judgement is yours.

Beside the median charting Korean title

AwakeMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached382
Weeks on a chart somewhere94
Chart places held795

The median is taken across all 974 Korean titles that reached any country top 10, most of which charted in one or two markets. This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.

All at once, or one country at a time

It reached 38 markets in all. The most that held it in the same week was 24 — the week of 2026-02-01.

Those two figures are different achievements. Reaching 38 markets over 9 weeks and holding 24 of them in one week are not the same event, and a single "markets" column cannot tell them apart. Netflix publishes neither figure; both are counted here from the weekly country lists.

How it left. Counting each country separately, it ended 44 runs on a chart. The middle one ended from position 5, and 12 of 44 ended from positions 8 to 10. Across all Korean titles that figure is 56.8%, and it would be 30% if leaving had nothing to do with position — how a title leaves has the whole table.

Chart places by year

YearPlaces
202333
20243
202643

⚠ 2021 and 2026 are part years — Netflix's weekly country lists start 2021-07-04 and our copy ends 2026-08-23, so those two rows cover fewer weeks than the others and cannot be compared with them.

Put this title in context

The same weekly files, cut five other ways. Each of these answers a question this page cannot: not what happened to Awake, but what happened around it.

Was Awake a hit or a flop?

We are not going to rule on that, and neither can anyone else working from this data. Netflix publishes no budget, no revenue and no viewing hours by country, so a chart position cannot be turned into a verdict. Several Korean titles opened in cinemas first, and that run is not in this data at all.

What we can give you is the thing the word “flop” is really reaching for: somewhere to stand. Of the 974 Korean titles that entered any country’s Netflix weekly top 10 between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-23, here is where Awake sits.

MeasureAwakeWhere that puts it
Countries that charted it38wider than 867 of 974 titles; 3 others reached exactly as many
Weeks on any chart9longer than 795 of 974 titles
Best position reached1number one somewhere — so were 304 of 974 titles

“Number one on Netflix” is not the rare part. 304 of 974 titles — 31% — have been number one in some country in some week, and 65 of those 304 were number one in the only country that ever charted them. Read a rank next to the reach, not on its own. The full distribution, and what it can and cannot say.

What to watch after Awake

We are not recommending anything. We have no idea what you like, and Netflix publishes nothing about who watched what. What we can tell you is which other Korean titles were on the same country’s top 10, in the same week as Awake — the list you saw it on. That is a fact about a published chart, and it is the whole of what we are claiming.

TitleCountry-weeks shared
Happy Ending11
Destined with You3
Boyfriend on Demand2
Can This Love Be Translated?2
Land2
That Night2
Doubt1
Made in Korea1
Mama1
Mask Girl1

Awake shared a country’s weekly top 10 with 15 other Korean titles across 32 country-weeks in total. The table shows the 10 it sat beside most often, and only those with a page here.

A big number here mostly means the title lasted. A show that held a country’s top 10 for a year sits beside almost everything; a show that charted for one week in one country can sit beside at most nine other titles ever. It does not mean the same people watched both, and it does not mean the two are similar. How we counted this, across every title.

Where these numbers come from, and what they cannot answer

Every Korean title that has charted · Looking for one particular week? · How far a company's catalogue travels · How we count