Korean pop culture, in numbers

Crash Course in Romance

A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 34 of 93 markets, holding 211 chart places across 13 weeks between 2023-01-22 and 2023-04-16. 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

Crash Course in RomanceMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached342
Weeks on a chart somewhere134
Chart places held2115

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 34 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Bahrain372023-02-122023-03-05
Bangladesh842023-02-052023-03-26
Bolivia722023-03-052023-04-16
Brazil292023-03-192023-03-26
Chile1102023-04-022023-04-02
Costa Rica2102023-03-262023-04-02
Ecuador3102023-03-192023-04-09
Egypt1102023-03-052023-03-05
El Salvador562023-03-192023-04-16
Guatemala482023-03-192023-04-09
Honduras472023-03-192023-04-09
Hong Kong1112023-01-292023-04-09
India662023-02-052023-03-12
Indonesia1112023-01-222023-04-02
Japan912023-02-052023-04-02
Jordan182023-03-052023-03-05
Kuwait372023-02-122023-03-05
Malaysia1122023-01-222023-04-02
Maldives762023-02-052023-03-19
Mexico542023-03-192023-04-16
Nicaragua572023-03-192023-04-16
Nigeria262023-03-052023-03-12
Oman542023-02-052023-03-05
Peru822023-02-262023-04-16
Philippines1022023-01-292023-04-02
Qatar662023-02-052023-03-12
Saudi Arabia742023-02-052023-03-19
Singapore1112023-01-292023-04-09
South Korea1212023-01-222023-04-09
Sri Lanka652023-02-052023-03-12
Taiwan1212023-01-222023-04-09
Thailand912023-01-292023-03-26
United Arab Emirates472023-02-122023-03-05
Vietnam1012023-01-292023-04-02

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
CJ ENM Entertainment Division배급
Studio Dragon제작
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

19 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.

Bae Hae-sun · Bae Yoon-kyung · Hur Jung-do · Hwang Bo-ra · Jang Young-nam · Jeon Do-yeon · Ji Il-ju · Jung Kyung-ho · Kang Na-eon · Kim Da-huin · Kim Sun-young · Lee A-jin · Lee Bong-ryun · Lee Chae-min · Lee Min-jae · Oh Eui-sik · Roh Yoon-seo · Ryu Da-in · Shin Jae-ha

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