Korean pop culture, in numbers

Confidential Assignment 2: International

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 3 of 93 markets, holding 11 chart places across 11 weeks between 2023-01-08 and 2026-05-31. 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

Confidential Assignment 2: InternationalMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached32
Weeks on a chart somewhere114
Chart places held115

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 3 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Japan222026-05-242026-05-31
Philippines252023-04-092023-04-16
South Korea712023-01-082023-02-26

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
20239
20262

⚠ 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.

Cast recorded as Korean

6 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.

Hyun Bin · Im Yoon-ah · Jin Seon-kyu · Lee Min-ji · Park Min-ha · Yoo Hai-Jin

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