Korean pop culture, in numbers

Bulgasal: Immortal Souls

A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 12 of 93 markets, holding 64 chart places across 9 weeks between 2021-12-26 and 2022-02-20. Its best position anywhere was number 2.

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

Bulgasal: Immortal SoulsMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached122
Weeks on a chart somewhere94
Chart places held645

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 12 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Hong Kong842021-12-262022-02-13
Indonesia862021-12-262022-02-13
Malaysia922021-12-262022-02-20
Philippines182022-02-132022-02-13
Qatar262022-01-232022-02-13
Saudi Arabia182022-02-132022-02-13
Singapore842021-12-262022-02-20
South Korea822021-12-262022-02-13
Taiwan752022-01-022022-02-13
Thailand522021-12-262022-02-13
United Arab Emirates1102022-02-132022-02-13
Vietnam652022-01-022022-02-13

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.

Chart places by year

YearPlaces
20216
202258

⚠ 2021 and 2026 are part years — Netflix's weekly country lists start 2021-07-04 and our copy ends 2026-07-26, so those two rows cover fewer weeks than the others and cannot be compared with them.

Companies credited on it

CompanyCredited as
tvN첫방송

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

7 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.

Gong Seung-yeon · Jeong Jin-yeong · Kim Woo-seok · Kwon Na-ra · Lee Jin-uk · Lee Joon · Park Mjong-sin

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