Korean pop culture, in numbers

The Game

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 12 of 93 markets, holding 16 chart places across 7 weeks between 2022-05-22 and 2024-07-28. 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, 206 reached more markets than The Game and 340 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

The GameMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached122
Weeks on a chart somewhere74
Chart places held165

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 12 markets in all. The most that held it in the same week was 5 — the week of 2022-05-22.

Those two figures are different achievements. Reaching 12 markets over 7 weeks and holding 5 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 12 runs on a chart. The middle one ended from position 10, and 7 of 12 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 12 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Australia1102022-08-212022-08-21
Bulgaria1102022-05-292022-05-29
Canada152024-07-282024-07-28
France152022-05-222022-05-22
Guadeloupe1102022-05-222022-05-22
Hungary262023-03-052023-03-12
Japan212022-05-292022-06-05
Latvia1102022-05-292022-05-29
New Caledonia172022-05-222022-05-22
Réunion1102022-05-222022-05-22
Spain282022-05-222022-05-29
Ukraine232022-05-292022-06-05

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
202213
20232
20241

⚠ 2021 and 2026 are part years — Netflix's weekly country lists start 2021-07-04 and our copy ends 2026-08-16, so those two rows cover fewer weeks than the others and cannot be compared with them.

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 The Game, 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