Korean pop culture, in numbers

Stepmom

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 21 of 93 markets, holding 33 chart places across 7 weeks between 2021-07-04 and 2024-10-13. Its best position anywhere was number 4.

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

StepmomMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached212
Weeks on a chart somewhere74
Chart places held335

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 21 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Argentina182021-07-112021-07-11
Bolivia272021-07-042021-07-11
Chile282021-07-042021-07-11
Costa Rica282021-07-042021-07-11
Denmark182024-10-132024-10-13
Ecuador262021-07-042021-07-11
El Salvador272021-07-042021-07-11
Guatemala242021-07-042021-07-11
Jamaica262021-07-042021-07-11
Mexico252021-07-042021-07-11
Nicaragua192021-07-042021-07-04
Norway182024-10-132024-10-13
Paraguay292021-07-042021-07-11
Peru282021-07-042021-07-11
Philippines162022-06-122022-06-12
Romania242023-08-272023-09-03
Singapore182022-06-122022-06-12
Sri Lanka172022-06-122022-06-12
Trinidad and Tobago192021-07-112021-07-11
Turkey192022-05-152022-05-15
Uruguay262021-07-042021-07-11

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
202125
20224
20232
20242

⚠ 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.

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