Korean pop culture, in numbers

Deep

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 5 of 93 countries, holding 8 chart places across 3 weeks between 2021-07-18 and 2021-08-01. Its best position anywhere was number 1.

It reached 5 of the 93 countries — further than 80% of the Korean films in this data. It reached number one in one country, Thailand. Its longest presence was in Thailand, where it held 3 chart places. Its widest single week was 2021-07-25, when it sat on 5 country charts at once. It usually left charts from partway up rather than from the bottom — only 1 of 5 departures came from the bottom three.

Deep on Netflix, country by country — all 5 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Indonesia262021-07-182021-07-25
Malaysia132021-07-252021-07-25
Philippines162021-07-252021-07-25
Taiwan172021-07-252021-07-25
Thailand312021-07-182021-08-01

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.

Deep — 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 553 Korean titles with a page here, 293 reached more markets than Deep and 239 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

DeepMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached52
Weeks on a chart somewhere34
Chart places held85

The median is taken across all 978 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 5 markets in all. The most that held it in the same week was 5 — the week of 2021-07-25.

Every market it ever reached held it at the same time, which is what a simultaneous opening looks like in this data.

How it left. Counting each country separately, it ended 5 runs on a chart. The middle one ended from position 6, and 1 of 5 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.

Where to walk from here

Other Korean titles on this site that share a named person or a credited company with Deep. The reason is given beside each one, because a shared name is the only claim being made — not that the two are alike.

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 Deep, but what happened around it.

Deep cast

6 names recorded as Korean, 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.

Ahn Ji-hye · Choi Yeo-jin · Heo Dong-won · Jung Chae-yull · Ryu Seung-su · Seo Rina

1 of these 6 names has a page of its own here, showing every other charting title they appear in and how far each one travelled. The rest do not, because we hold fewer than two charting titles for them.

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