Korean pop culture, in numbers

Happy Ending

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 47 of 93 countries, holding 60 chart places across 5 weeks between 2022-11-27 and 2023-09-17. Its best position anywhere was number 1.

It reached 47 of the 93 countries — further than 96% of the Korean films in this data. It reached number one in one country, Netherlands. Its longest presence was in Netherlands, where it held 3 chart places. Its widest single week was 2023-09-10, when it sat on 46 country charts at once. It first appeared on 2022-11-27 and was last seen on 2023-09-17, 10 months apart.

Happy Ending on Netflix, country by country — all 47 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Argentina1102023-09-102023-09-10
Austria172023-09-102023-09-10
Belgium172023-09-102023-09-10
Brazil182023-09-102023-09-10
Colombia172023-09-102023-09-10
Costa Rica1102023-09-102023-09-10
Croatia162023-09-102023-09-10
Cyprus172023-09-102023-09-10
Czech Republic182023-09-102023-09-10
Dominican Republic182023-09-102023-09-10
Egypt152023-09-102023-09-10
Greece162023-09-102023-09-10
Guadeloupe142023-09-102023-09-10
Hungary252023-09-032023-09-10
Indonesia152023-09-102023-09-10
Israel252023-09-032023-09-10
Italy222023-09-032023-09-10
Jamaica1102023-09-102023-09-10
Jordan162023-09-102023-09-10
Kenya152023-09-102023-09-10
Latvia1102023-09-102023-09-10
Lebanon262023-09-032023-09-10
Lithuania182023-09-102023-09-10
Luxembourg252023-09-032023-09-10
Maldives122023-09-102023-09-10
Malta282023-09-032023-09-10
Martinique132023-09-102023-09-10
Mauritius1102023-09-102023-09-10
Morocco162023-09-102023-09-10
Netherlands312023-09-032023-09-17
Nigeria162023-09-102023-09-10
Panama1102023-09-102023-09-10
Paraguay192023-09-102023-09-10
Portugal272023-09-032023-09-10
Réunion192023-09-102023-09-10
Romania172023-09-102023-09-10
Saudi Arabia1102023-09-102023-09-10
Serbia172023-09-102023-09-10
Slovakia142023-09-102023-09-10
Slovenia162023-09-102023-09-10
Spain262023-09-032023-09-10
Switzerland252023-09-032023-09-10
Thailand232022-11-272022-12-04
Trinidad and Tobago1102023-09-102023-09-10
Turkey142023-09-102023-09-10
Uruguay272023-09-032023-09-10
Venezuela182023-09-102023-09-10

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.

Happy Ending — 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 546 Korean titles with a page here, 69 reached more markets than Happy Ending and 474 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

Happy EndingMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached472
Weeks on a chart somewhere54
Chart places held605

The median is taken across all 974 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 47 markets in all. The most that held it in the same week was 46 — the week of 2023-09-10.

Those two figures are different achievements. Reaching 47 markets over 5 weeks and holding 46 of them in one week are not the same event, and a single "markets" column cannot tell them apart. Netflix publishes neither figure; both are counted here from the weekly country lists.

How it left. Counting each country separately, it ended 47 runs on a chart. The middle one ended from position 7, and 16 of 47 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.

Chart places by year

YearPlaces
20222
202358

⚠ 2021 and 2026 are part years — Netflix's weekly country lists start 2021-07-04 and our copy ends 2026-08-23, so those two rows cover fewer weeks than the others and cannot be compared with them.

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 Happy Ending, but what happened around it.

Was Happy Ending a hit or a flop?

We are not going to rule on that, and neither can anyone else working from this data. Netflix publishes no budget, no revenue and no viewing hours by country, so a chart position cannot be turned into a verdict. Several Korean titles opened in cinemas first, and that run is not in this data at all.

What we can give you is the thing the word “flop” is really reaching for: somewhere to stand. Of the 974 Korean titles that entered any country’s Netflix weekly top 10 between 2021-07-04 and 2026-08-23, here is where Happy Ending sits.

MeasureHappy EndingWhere that puts it
Countries that charted it47wider than 902 of 974 titles; 2 others reached exactly as many
Weeks on any chart5longer than 563 of 974 titles
Best position reached1number one somewhere — so were 304 of 974 titles

“Number one on Netflix” is not the rare part. 304 of 974 titles — 31% — have been number one in some country in some week, and 65 of those 304 were number one in the only country that ever charted them. Read a rank next to the reach, not on its own. The full distribution, and what it can and cannot say.

What to watch after Happy Ending

We are not recommending anything. We have no idea what you like, and Netflix publishes nothing about who watched what. What we can tell you is which other Korean titles were on the same country’s top 10, in the same week as Happy Ending — the list you saw it on. That is a fact about a published chart, and it is the whole of what we are claiming.

TitleCountry-weeks shared
Destined with You14
Awake11
The Great Seduction11
King the Land4
Mask Girl4
The Uncanny Counter3
Alchemy of Souls2
Alice2
Extraordinary Attorney Woo2
Under the Queen's Umbrella2
A Time Called You1
Band of Brothers1

Happy Ending shared a country’s weekly top 10 with 17 other Korean titles across 62 country-weeks in total. The table shows the 12 it sat beside most often, and only those with a page here.

A big number here mostly means the title lasted. A show that held a country’s top 10 for a year sits beside almost everything; a show that charted for one week in one country can sit beside at most nine other titles ever. It does not mean the same people watched both, and it does not mean the two are similar. How we counted this, across every title.

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