Korean pop culture, in numbers

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A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 33 of 93 markets, holding 156 chart places across 16 weeks between 2021-07-04 and 2021-10-24. 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

Nevertheless,Median Korean title that charted
Markets reached332
Weeks on a chart somewhere164
Chart places held1565

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 33 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Bangladesh842021-07-112021-08-29
Bolivia262021-10-102021-10-17
Chile2102021-10-102021-10-17
Colombia192021-10-172021-10-17
Costa Rica1102021-10-172021-10-17
Dominican Republic162021-10-172021-10-17
Ecuador272021-10-102021-10-17
El Salvador362021-10-102021-10-24
Greece152021-09-052021-09-05
Guatemala272021-10-102021-10-17
Honduras262021-10-102021-10-17
Hong Kong912021-07-112021-09-05
Indonesia1012021-07-042021-09-05
Japan1312021-07-042021-09-26
Malaysia1012021-07-042021-09-05
Maldives852021-07-112021-08-29
Mexico272021-10-102021-10-17
Morocco182021-09-052021-09-05
Nicaragua272021-10-102021-10-17
Nigeria292021-08-152021-08-22
Paraguay282021-10-102021-10-17
Peru252021-10-102021-10-17
Philippines1022021-07-042021-09-05
Qatar772021-07-112021-08-29
Romania142021-09-052021-09-05
Singapore852021-07-112021-08-29
South Korea922021-07-042021-08-29
Sri Lanka382021-07-252021-08-22
Taiwan912021-07-112021-09-05
Thailand1012021-07-042021-09-05
Turkey142021-09-052021-09-05
United Arab Emirates392021-08-082021-08-29
Vietnam912021-07-042021-08-29

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.

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