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The Policeman's Lineage

Name: The Policeman's Lineage — every country it charted in
Creator: K Culture Wire

A Korean film that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 2 of 93 markets, holding 7 chart places across 7 weeks between 2023-01-01 and 2023-05-14. Its best position anywhere was number 5.

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

	The Policeman's Lineage	Median Korean title that charted
Markets reached	2	2
Weeks on a chart somewhere	7	4
Chart places held	7	5

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 This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.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 2 markets

Market	Places	Best position	First week	Last week
South Korea	5	5	2023-01-01	2023-01-29
Vietnam	2	7	2023-05-07	2023-05-14

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.

Companies credited on it

Company	Credited as
ACEMAKER MOVIEWORKS	배급

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.

Cast recorded as Korean

17 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.

Baek Hyun-jin · Cha Yup · Cho Jin-woong · Choi Woo-shik · Eom Ji-man · Jung Jong-woo · Kwon Yul · Lee Eol · Lee Hyun-wook · Lee Seong-u · Lee Tae-gu · Park Hee-soon · Park Jeong-beom · Park Myung-hoon · Park Soo-oh · Son In-yong · Yoon Jin-young

Where these numbers come from, and what they cannot answer

Netflix and Wikidata — Netflix Top 10 (Tudum) weekly country lists for chart places; Wikidata for the companies credited on a title and for cast members recorded as Korean citizens, both retrieved by item number rather than by name
A chart position is not a viewing figure. A chart position is not a viewing figure. Netflix publishes hours viewed only for its global lists, so a title that charted in 40 small markets and one that charted in 40 large ones look identical here.
Only the weeks we hold. Everything here is counted between 2021-07-04 and 2026-07-26 — 265 weekly lists. Anything before or after is outside our copy.
Russia is excluded throughout this site, because Netflix withdrew from it and the remaining weeks are not comparable with the others.

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