A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 1 of 93 markets, holding 5 chart places across 5 weeks between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-26. 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.
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, 416 reached more markets than The People Upstairs and 0 reached fewer. The typical Korean title that charted at all reached 2 markets, so this one stayed narrower.
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.
| The People Upstairs | Median Korean title that charted | |
|---|---|---|
| Markets reached | 1 | 2 |
| Weeks on a chart somewhere | 5 | 4 |
| Chart places held | 5 | 5 |
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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.
It reached 1 market in all. The most that held it in the same week was 1 — the week of 2026-03-29.
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 one run on a chart. The middle one ended from position 8, and 1 of 1 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.
| Market | Places | Best position | First week | Last week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | 5 | 1 | 2026-03-29 | 2026-04-26 |
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.
Other Korean titles on this site that share a named person or a credited company with The People Upstairs. The reason is given beside each one, because a shared name is the only claim being made — not that the two are alike.
The same weekly files, cut five other ways. Each of these answers a question this page cannot: not what happened to The People Upstairs, but what happened around it.
| Company | Credited as |
|---|---|
| IHQ | Production (제작) |
From Wikidata, listed alphabetically. A credit is not a share of the work — it records that a company is attached, not how much of the budget or the decision it held. Companies inside one corporate group are listed separately because we did not confirm the ownership tree. The credit type is given in English with the original Korean label in brackets, because that label is what the filing says and translating it away would hide the source.
4 names, alphabetically. Wikidata cast lists are incomplete and skew toward better-known names, so this is not a full cast list and a short one does not mean a small production.
Gong Hyo-jin · Ha Jung-woo · Kim Dong-wook · Lee Ha-nee
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