Korean pop culture, in numbers

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 3 of 93 markets, holding 24 chart places across 19 weeks between 2021-10-10 and 2022-11-13. Its best position anywhere was number 5.

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

Guardian: The Lonely and Great GodMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached32
Weeks on a chart somewhere194
Chart places held245

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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
Hong Kong1102021-11-072021-11-07
South Korea1462021-10-102022-11-13
Vietnam952021-10-242021-12-19

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
202117
20227

⚠ 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
Hwa&Dam Pictures제작
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

14 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.

Choi Ri · Choi Woong · Gong Yoo · Hwang Seok-jeong · Jo Woo-jin · Jung Young-ki · Kim Byung-chul · Kim Go-eun · Kim Sung-kyum · Lee Dong-wook · Lee El · Yeom Hye-ran · Yoo In-na · Yook Sung-jae

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