Korean pop culture, in numbers

Beyond the Bar

A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 53 of 93 markets, holding 281 chart places across 9 weeks between 2025-08-03 and 2025-09-28. Its best position anywhere was number 1.

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.

Beside the median charting Korean title

Beyond the BarMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached532
Weeks on a chart somewhere94
Chart places held2815

The median is taken across all 915 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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.

Where it charted — all 53 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Argentina2102025-08-102025-08-17
Bahrain552025-08-102025-09-07
Bangladesh732025-08-102025-09-21
Bolivia642025-08-102025-09-14
Brazil722025-08-032025-09-14
Chile642025-08-102025-09-14
Colombia652025-08-102025-09-14
Costa Rica652025-08-102025-09-14
Cyprus1102025-08-102025-08-10
Dominican Republic732025-08-032025-09-14
Ecuador642025-08-102025-09-14
Egypt362025-08-172025-08-31
El Salvador622025-08-102025-09-14
Greece272025-08-102025-08-17
Guatemala642025-08-102025-09-14
Honduras822025-08-032025-09-21
Hong Kong722025-08-102025-09-21
India662025-08-102025-09-14
Indonesia712025-08-102025-09-21
Israel382025-08-102025-08-24
Japan652025-08-102025-09-14
Jordan652025-08-102025-09-14
Kenya192025-08-102025-08-10
Kuwait652025-08-102025-09-14
Lebanon1102025-08-172025-08-17
Malaysia712025-08-102025-09-21
Maldives642025-08-102025-09-14
Mauritius1102025-08-102025-08-10
Mexico552025-08-102025-09-07
Morocco652025-08-102025-09-14
New Caledonia192025-08-102025-08-10
New Zealand192025-08-102025-08-10
Nicaragua632025-08-102025-09-14
Nigeria482025-08-102025-09-07
Oman642025-08-102025-09-14
Pakistan652025-08-102025-09-14
Panama642025-08-102025-09-14
Paraguay652025-08-102025-09-14
Peru722025-08-102025-09-21
Philippines722025-08-102025-09-21
Portugal462025-08-102025-09-07
Qatar642025-08-102025-09-14
Romania542025-08-102025-09-07
Saudi Arabia652025-08-102025-09-14
Singapore812025-08-032025-09-21
South Korea812025-08-032025-09-21
Spain1102025-08-102025-08-10
Sri Lanka642025-08-102025-09-14
Taiwan812025-08-102025-09-28
Thailand662025-08-102025-09-14
United Arab Emirates652025-08-102025-09-14
Venezuela842025-08-032025-09-21
Vietnam722025-08-102025-09-21

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.

Companies credited on it

CompanyCredited as
JTBC첫방송
SLL배급

From Wikidata, listed alphabetically. A credit is not a share of the work — it records that a company is attached, not how much of the budget or the decision it held. Companies inside one corporate group are listed separately because we did not confirm the ownership tree.

Cast recorded as Korean

9 names, alphabetically. Wikidata cast lists are incomplete and skew toward better-known names, so this is not a full cast list and a short one does not mean a small production.

Hong Seo Joon · Jeon Hye-bin · Jung Chae-yeon · Kim Eui-sung · Kim Yeo-jin · Lee Hak-joo · Lee Jin-uk · Lee Ju-yeon · Yoon Yu-seon

Where these numbers come from, and what they cannot answer

Every Korean title that has charted · How far a company's catalogue travels · How we count