A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 16 of 93 countries, holding 36 chart places across 16 weeks between 2021-12-05 and 2024-08-04. Its best position anywhere was number 1.
It reached 16 of the 93 countries — further than 90% of the Korean films in this data. It reached number one in one country, South Africa. Its longest presence was in Indonesia, where it held 3 chart places. Its widest single week was 2024-03-17, when it sat on 6 country charts at once. It first appeared on 2021-12-05 and was last seen on 2024-08-04, 32 months apart.
| Market | Places | Best position | First week | Last week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 5 | 2022-06-05 | 2022-06-12 |
| Austria | 1 | 6 | 2024-07-28 | 2024-07-28 |
| Bahamas | 2 | 5 | 2021-12-05 | 2021-12-12 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 8 | 2021-12-05 | 2021-12-05 |
| Germany | 2 | 6 | 2024-07-28 | 2024-08-04 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 2 | 2024-03-17 | 2024-03-31 |
| Jamaica | 2 | 3 | 2021-12-05 | 2021-12-12 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 2 | 2024-03-17 | 2024-03-31 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 2 | 2022-06-05 | 2022-06-12 |
| Philippines | 3 | 2 | 2024-03-17 | 2024-03-31 |
| Singapore | 3 | 2 | 2024-03-17 | 2024-03-31 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1 | 2024-05-19 | 2024-06-02 |
| Thailand | 2 | 4 | 2024-03-17 | 2024-03-24 |
| Turkey | 2 | 2 | 2024-06-23 | 2024-06-30 |
| United States | 2 | 7 | 2023-08-13 | 2023-08-20 |
| Vietnam | 3 | 3 | 2024-03-17 | 2024-03-31 |
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.
⚠ A different work carries this same name. Netflix publishes two separate charts — one for films, one for series — and this name appears on both. 16 chart places across 6 countries on the series chart belongs to that other work and is not counted anywhere on this page. We kept the film chart because Wikidata records this name as a film. If that identification is wrong, every number here is the wrong work's — so we are telling you what we excluded and why, rather than quietly adding the two together.
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, 181 reached more markets than Safe and 359 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.
| Safe | Median Korean title that charted | |
|---|---|---|
| Markets reached | 16 | 2 |
| Weeks on a chart somewhere | 16 | 4 |
| Chart places held | 36 | 5 |
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.
It reached 16 markets in all. The most that held it in the same week was 6 — the week of 2024-03-17.
Those two figures are different achievements. Reaching 16 markets over 16 weeks and holding 6 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 16 runs on a chart. The middle one ended from position 8, and 11 of 16 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.
| Year | Places |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 25 |
⚠ 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.
The same weekly files, cut five other ways. Each of these answers a question this page cannot: not what happened to Safe, but what happened around it.
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 Safe sits.
| Measure | Safe | Where that puts it |
|---|---|---|
| Countries that charted it | 16 | wider than 787 of 974 titles; 5 others reached exactly as many |
| Weeks on any chart | 16 | longer than 927 of 974 titles |
| Best position reached | 1 | number 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.
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 Safe — the list you saw it on. That is a fact about a published chart, and it is the whole of what we are claiming.
| Title | Country-weeks shared |
|---|---|
| Doctor Slump | 17 |
| Queen of Tears | 17 |
| Solo Leveling | 15 |
| Chicken Nugget | 9 |
| A Killer Paradox | 3 |
| Badland Hunters | 3 |
| Red Eye | 2 |
| Rewind | 2 |
| Unlocked | 2 |
| Angel Eyes | 1 |
| Hellbound | 1 |
Safe shared a country’s weekly top 10 with 19 other Korean titles across 81 country-weeks in total. The table shows the 11 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.
Every Korean title that has charted · Looking for one particular week? · How far a company's catalogue travels · How we count