Korean pop culture, in numbers

Mr. Sunshine

A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 1 of 93 markets, holding 23 chart places across 23 weeks between 2021-08-22 and 2023-04-23. Its best position anywhere was number 7.

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

Mr. SunshineMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached12
Weeks on a chart somewhere234
Chart places held235

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 1 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
South Korea2372021-08-222023-04-23

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
20216
20224
202313

⚠ 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
CJ ENM Entertainment Division배급
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

32 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 Jung-nam · Byun Yo-han · Choi Jin-ho · Choi Jong-won · Choi Moo-sung · Jin Goo · Jo Woo-jin · Kang Sin-il · Kim Byung-chul · Kim Dong-gyun · Kim Eui-sung · Kim Eung-su · Kim Gap-su · Kim Hye-eun · Kim Ji-won · Kim Min-jae · Kim Min-joung · Kim Na-woon · Kim Tae-ri · Lee Byung-hun · Lee Ho-jae · Lee Jung-eun · Lee Seung-jun · Lim Semi · Nam Chang-hee · Park Ah-in · Park Bomi · Park Jeong-min · Seo Yoo-jeong · Shin Jung-geun · Yoo Yeon-seok · Yoon Kyung-ho

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