Since 2021, 421 Korean shows and films have reached the Netflix Top 10 in at least one of six Southeast Asian countries — Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. This is the whole list, counted from Netflix’s own weekly rankings across 269 weeks.
Counting every one of the 93 markets Netflix publishes rather than the six above: 277 of 974 Korean titles charted in exactly one country and that country was South Korea — 28.4% of the panel. Another 170 charted in exactly one country that was not Korea. The piece on those titles uses a panel two titles larger and reports 28.1%; the difference is which titles resolve by exact name, and it is set out in that article’s notes.
Ranked by total weeks in the Top 10 across the six countries, then by how many countries and how high. A week counts once per country. Showing the top 40 of 421.
A title enters this list because its English name matches a Korean work. That rule can only go wrong one way: another country made something with the same name. So we asked Wikidata, for every title here, which countries produced a film or series carrying exactly that label.
The shared group is 28.2% of all 2,354 chart-weeks on this page. These are the 12 of them that stayed longest, with the countries whose works share the name:
Shared does not mean wrong. The Glory and Business Proposal are in this group and both are plainly the Korean works — nothing else by those names has been near a Southeast Asian Top 10. It means we cannot prove it from the title text alone, and we would rather you saw the list than took our word for the ones we happened to check. Where the chart carries a language label we use it; 215 of these titles never reached a global Top 10 and so carry no label to check against.
Wikidata says a collision is possible. It cannot say which work charted. A Korean title normally also plays in Korea, so we checked every shared title against Netflix’s South Korea list over the same weeks. A Korean title should normally also appear on Netflix’s South Korea chart. Absence is not proof — a title released before July 2021, or never streamed in Korea, cannot appear — so this ranks titles for human review rather than deciding them.
The ambiguity is not spread evenly. Films carry short, common names; series do not:
Charted in one country and never in Korea — first in the queue:
This queue is not a list of errors. Vagabond is on it and is plainly a Korean drama; it simply never reached Korea’s own top ten. A Korean title can miss that chart because it was released before this data begins in July 2021, because Netflix never streamed it in Korea, or because it lost its week at home. Absence is a reason to look, not a verdict. Anything we do remove will appear on the corrections page with the evidence.
Counted from 421 panel titles across every country Netflix publishes. Weeks are counted once per country per week: the source repeats 1,239 of its 35,526 rows for these titles, and counting rows would overstate them. Updated 2026-09-03 (KST). Netflix Top 10 (Tudum) per-country weekly lists — every country Netflix publishes, not only Southeast Asia.
974 Korean titles have reached at least one country's Netflix top 10 since 2021-07-04. 546 of them have a page of their own, listing every market they charted in, the companies credited on them and the cast Wikidata records as Korean.
The other 428 do not, and we would rather say so than publish an empty page: a title needs at least 6 rows of data before we make one. The published pages carry 14 rows at the median and 13,444 rows between them; across all 974 titles the median is 7, which is why most of them have no page.
Of the 974 titles, 597 carry at least one company credit and 595 carry at least one cast member Wikidata records as Korean. Neither gap means the title had no company or no Korean cast — it means Wikidata does not hold it. ⚠ 4 pairs of titles differ only in spacing or capitalisation (Miracle in Cell No.7 / Miracle in Cell No. 7; Life Is Beautiful / Life is Beautiful; Love me / Love Me; Keys to the Heart / Keys To The Heart). We publish the one Wikidata identifies and leave the other out rather than merge two entries we cannot prove are the same work.
Alphabetical, not ranked. The small number beside each is how many markets it charted in.
Is a title a key? Each row carries week, country, list (Films or TV), rank, title, season and weeks-on-chart.
| Rows we read | 493,600 | every country, every week |
| Rows a title-only key would have merged away | 26,124 | 5.29% of the file |
| Explained once the season is part of the key | 99.9% | 419 titles across 94 countries |
A weekly top ten is not ten titles. One show can hold several places at once with different seasons — the record is 7 of the ten in Jordan, week 2023-04-09. How often that happens:
| Places held by one title at once | Times |
|---|---|
| 2 | 13,264 |
| 3 | 3,629 |
| 4 | 1,251 |
| 5 | 395 |
| 6 | 44 |
| 7 | 3 |
This is not a fault in Netflix's data. It is what happens when you key on a title alone, which is what we did at first. Everything on this page is keyed on week, country, list and season together — with that key the file has 0 duplicate slots and 0 duplicate rows in 493,600. The full story →
Where the extra rows come from. Adding the list (Films or TV) to the key explains 26,093 of them and the season a further 25. It happens in 18,586 separate country-weeks, and 47 of those are ties for the largest case above.
And 25 pairs are two different works sharing a name in the same week — mostly Inheritance (21 of them). Weeks-on-chart separates 23 of the 25; 2 cannot be separated at all and we say so rather than pick one.
What this costs our own panel. These 421 titles come from 34,172 rows, which are 32,993 distinct title-country-weeks. Counting rows instead would have added 1,179 (3.5%) — mostly Squid Game holding three places at once.
People search the phrase for individual Korean films and shows. The Netflix files cannot answer it — but they can say where a title stands among 546. Reaching No.1 in some country turns out to be the common case, not the rare one.
6 September 2026
On 29 August the English Wikipedia article for the Korean series Mousetrap was opened 23,512 times — rank 157 in the world that day. Squid Game's best day in the same month was 5,205. Two days earlier Mousetrap drew 658.
1 September 2026
In August, Korean Wikipedia opened the article on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey 119,356 times. Every Korean film released in 2026 that has a Korean Wikipedia article, added together, drew 19,822. That is six to one, at home.
1 September 2026
We took the cast of thirteen Korean titles that broke out on English Wikipedia — 119 actors with their own article. Sixteen of them appear in two of those titles. Nobody appears in three.
1 September 2026
Thirteen of Squid Game's cast have a second Korean title that charted. For five of them it reached five countries or fewer — Jung Ho-yeon's reached one. For seven it reached fifty or more. The same show did both.
1 September 2026
976 Korean titles have reached a weekly top 10 somewhere. 438 did it in exactly one country, and for 274 of those the country was South Korea itself. Films stay home far more than series — 37% against 15%.
24 August 2026
They are a different kind of title: 2.20 markets on average against 4.63, and one in seven reaches #1 against one in two. Netflix's Korean chart is not a smaller version of the regional one — it is a different chart.
8 August 2026
Across 493,600 country-chart rows, 18,586 weekly lists put one title in two or more places. One show has held seven of the ten. Seasons explain some of it.
8 August 2026
Of 718 actors with two or more charting Korean titles, 62.4% have worked in both film and series. If format meant nothing, the figure would be 73.8%. The gap is the size of the wall, and it is smaller than reputation suggests.
8 August 2026
Of the 421 Korean titles that reached Southeast Asia's top 10, Korea's own chart got there first for 51 and in the same week for 166 — and never charted 150 of them at all. Series enter together; films scatter.
8 August 2026
Across 666 charting Korean titles there are 14,144 pairs of actors who have shared a production. 268 of them have done it more than once. Shuffle the same casts at random and you get about 214. The repertory company is mostly not there.
8 August 2026
Hold the number of titles fixed and the gap is still there: 1,926 English Wikipedia lookups against 1,111. Hold how far the title travelled fixed and it survives that too. Korea's own chart predicts foreign curiosity.
8 August 2026
We asked Wikidata which country made each of our 421 chart titles. Films come back ambiguous 54.1% of the time, series 22.5%. Short names are why.
8 August 2026 · corrected
Sixty-nine titles share an actor with Squid Game directly. Another 432 are one further step away. Out of 635 Korean titles with a recorded cast, 502 sit within two shared actors of one show.
8 August 2026
Wikidata records no cast at all for 266 of 901 Korean titles. Of the 635 that have any, the median series lists five names. What that limits.
8 August 2026
Our panel never had a denominator. Wikidata records 785 Korean series and 1,126 Korean films from the chart era; 249 series and 172 films reached a Top 10. Series are twice as likely to be seen at all.
8 August 2026
215 of 421 titles never reached a global Top 10, so Netflix's language label — the only thing that separates a Korean work from a foreign one with the same name — cannot be applied to them. They are also the small ones.
7 August 2026
Of 666 Korean titles with a recorded cast, 649 form a single connected body through shared actors. We expected a few very busy people to be holding it together. Take out the 100 busiest and 94.5% is still one piece.
7 August 2026
Among the 232 Korean titles Netflix has verifiably filed as Non-English, the median series charted in 35 countries and the median film in 11. Series also last longer — but the country gap is the one runtime cannot explain.
7 August 2026
Of 397 Korean titles that reached a Netflix Top 10 in Southeast Asia since 2021, 45.1% charted in all six countries and 30.7% in exactly one. Series average 4.6 countries; films average 2.6.
7 August 2026 · corrected
Our Korean Netflix catalogue was 294 titles and 27.7 billion hours. It is 236 and 23.7 billion. Here is the mistake, how it spread, why counting alone would never have caught it, and what we changed so it cannot happen the same way twice.
7 August 2026 · corrected
Across 312 Korean productions with five or more recorded cast, the median has 16.7% of its cast appearing in nothing else that charted. The spread runs from 0% to 89%, and it separates prestige work from reality and youth casting.
7 August 2026
all-weeks-countries.tsv; what is and is not inside that file is set out on Inside Netflix’s Top 10 files, and every week in it has its own page under all Top 10 weeks. Looking for series only? Netflix top 10 Korean drama, all 398 → Wondering whether a name on this list is really the Korean work? 423 of them we cannot settle from a chart row →What the numbers are, and are not. “Weeks” counts each week a title appeared in a country’s Top 10, summed across the six — a title in three countries for one week counts as three. It measures reach and staying power on this one service, not quality, and not total audience. Netflix is not streaming: a title absent here may simply be strong elsewhere.
How many of these we could verify. Netflix splits its global chart by a title’s primary language, so a title that has reached the global Top 10 can be checked against that label. Country charts carry no language field. 215 of these 421 titles have never appeared in a global Top 10, so the language check cannot be applied to them at all — they are here on a title-text match alone. They are also the small ones: the median title in that group charted in one country. We keep them and say so rather than drop them quietly.
What the check did remove. Where the label exists, it works: 38 titles matched a Korean work by name but Netflix filed them on its English charts, so they are not the Korean work and are out. A further 7 came out by hand after we read them one at a time — Teach You a Lesson, The East Palace, The Empress among them. 10 more came out on 8 August 2026 without being read: the same Wikidata question that produces the verdicts below returned no Korean work at all for those names — Money Heist, Glorious Days, Restless among them. A title our own instrument says nothing Korean carries cannot sit in a Korean panel. Every count here is produced by the build, not typed.
The front page shows this week’s new entries. Counts derived from Netflix’s published lists; we do not republish the lists themselves. Updated 2026-09-03 (KST).
Every title above also sits in the year it held its places. This is the one axis every title has — some carry no cast or company data at all, but all of them have a year.
2026 97 titles (part year) · 2025 129 titles · 2024 144 titles · 2023 180 titles · 2022 185 titles · 2021 99 titles (part year)
Two of those years are half years. Our data begins in July 2021 and ends in July 2026, so those two hold about half the weeks the others do. Comparing their totals with a full year would show a rise and a fall that belong to the window, not to the industry.