Korean pop culture, in numbers

Pavane

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 19 of 93 markets, holding 26 chart places across 3 weeks between 2026-02-22 and 2026-03-08. 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.

Was it a hit or a 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 559 Korean titles with a page here, 173 reached more markets than Pavane and 380 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

PavaneMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached192
Weeks on a chart somewhere34
Chart places held265

The median is taken across all 976 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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 19 markets in all. The most that held it in the same week was 19 — the week of 2026-03-01.

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 19 runs on a chart. The middle one ended from position 7, and 7 of 19 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 it charted — all 19 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Bahrain182026-03-012026-03-01
Bangladesh172026-03-012026-03-01
Hong Kong142026-03-012026-03-01
Indonesia172026-03-012026-03-01
Japan272026-02-222026-03-01
Kuwait162026-03-012026-03-01
Malaysia192026-03-012026-03-01
Morocco1102026-03-012026-03-01
Oman182026-03-012026-03-01
Philippines142026-03-012026-03-01
Qatar152026-03-012026-03-01
Saudi Arabia182026-03-012026-03-01
Singapore1102026-03-012026-03-01
South Korea312026-02-222026-03-08
Taiwan332026-02-222026-03-08
Thailand232026-02-222026-03-01
United Arab Emirates172026-03-012026-03-01
Venezuela182026-03-012026-03-01
Vietnam242026-02-222026-03-01

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.

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 Pavane, but what happened around it.

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