Korean pop culture, in numbers

Korean drama 2026 — 42 series on Netflix (part year)

Read this year with care. Our data runs from 2021-07-04 to 2026-08-16, so 2026 holds only 33 weeks here, not fifty-two. Putting its 97 titles beside a full year would show a rise or a fall that belongs to our window and not to anything that happened.

97 Korean titles held at least one place on a Netflix weekly top 10 somewhere during 2026 — 42 series and 55 films, taking 4,883 places in total across 93 countries.

These are the titles that charted during 2026 — not the ones released in it. A series that came out earlier and was still charting appears here; one released in 2026 that never entered a top ten does not. Netflix publishes no release date in these files, so we cannot split the two and do not pretend to.

The titles

Ordered by how many chart places each held in 2026 — not by how good they are, and not by how many people watched. A place on a list is a place on a list.

TitleKindPlaces in 2026CountriesWeeks
Agent Kim ReactivatedSeries466818
My Royal NemesisSeries3384910
BloodhoundsSeries3348717
OasisSeries253829
DesireFilm247905
Sold Out on YouSeries232468
The WONDERfoolsSeries216647
Can This Love Be Translated?Series2136021
The Art of SarahSeries200658
Spooky in LoveSeries191485
If Wishes Could KillSeries1876510
The Great FloodFilm1669311
Boyfriend on DemandSeries137475
HumintFilm1256711
Phantom LawyerSeries1202011
That NightSeries115505
Our Sticky LoveSeries112682
Made in KoreaFilm107545
CasheroSeries87525
Husbands in ActionFilm85419
WrathSeries80433
No Tail to TellSeries73238
Undercover Miss HongSeries691410
The Apartment JobSeries63196
Family BusinessFilm461110
AwakeFilm43389
Human VaporSeries43287
Juvenile JusticeSeries363114
TarotFilm345434
Mercy For NoneSeries307512
YouthFilm30127
Notes from the Last RowSeries29214
PavaneFilm26193
MemoryFilm252020
Idol ISeries24176
Angel EyesFilm232815
Pro BonoSeries2178
Dynamite KissSeries16529
Mickey 17Film16142
HeroesSeries1594
Wild CardFilm13137
Still ShiningSeries1285
Bitch and RichSeries111316
We Are All Trying HereSeries1139
To My Beloved ThiefSeries1028
BarbieFilm83719
PoseidonFilm8115
The Trauma Code: Heroes on CallSeries76327
The UglyFilm717
No Other ChoiceFilm616
The Price of ConfessionSeries6395
BallerinaFilm58918
Lovely RunnerSeries51310
MamaFilm5134
The People UpstairsFilm515
TwinsFilm563
Wild SingFilm523
The ChildeFilm428
The NetFilm41111
The Way BackFilm42111
Weak HeroSeries47213
Agents of MysterySeries347
Ghost ShipFilm3216
MonsterFilm3275
PeninsulaFilm3510
Positively YoursSeries313
Project YFilm313
Beasts Clawing at StrawsFilm212
BugoniaFilm222
Christmas CarolFilm225
Confidential Assignment 2: InternationalFilm2311
EscapeFilm2316
HindsightFilm212
Hitman 2Film212
It’s Okay!Film212
Love ScoutSeries2910
New NormalFilm212
RevolverFilm223
The CursedFilm22915
The Desperate ChaseFilm212
The Face ReaderFilm212
The Noisy MansionFilm212
The Point MenFilm238
WavesFilm2167
A Company ManFilm114
Blade of the ImmortalFilm124
Hometown Cha-Cha-ChaSeries14034
HuntFilm1410
MontageFilm111
NoiseFilm17210
RevengeFilm177
Road to BostonFilm111
The AuditorsSeries155
The Berlin FileFilm122
The Haunted PalaceSeries1811
The MoonFilm135
Wedding ImpossibleSeries111

A dash means we hold no figure for that title across its whole run, not a zero. Countries and weeks count the title’s entire run, which may reach outside 2026.

What this page is, and what it is not

Drawn from 546 Korean titles across 6 years. Of those years, 2026 and 2021 hold only part of a year in our data.

Korean titles grouped by the calendar year in which they held places on a Netflix weekly top 10, with how many places each held that year. Every title we publish has a year, which is why this axis reaches titles that have no cast or company data at all.

Not this. Not a ranking of years and not a trend. Our data starts in July 2021 and ends in July 2026, so the first and last years hold only about half a year each — comparing their totals against a full year would show a rise and a fall that are properties of the window, not of the industry. A chart place is also not a viewing figure.

Other years

2025 129 titles · 2024 144 titles · 2023 180 titles · 2022 185 titles · 2021 99 titles (part year)

Where to walk from here

Where each title could actually be watched · The ones that ran and ran, almost nowhere · Every country and how Korean its chart is · Who made them · Every Korean title we hold

How this was measured

Netflix's own weekly top 10 files, 268 weeks across 93 countries, 2021-07-04 to 2026-08-16. A title appears on this page if it held at least one place on a weekly list dated within 2026, and the places column counts only that year. Titles are ordered by places held in 2026; the countries and weeks columns describe the whole run, which is why they can be larger than this year alone.

What this cannot tell you

This year holds only 33 weeks of our data, so its totals are not comparable with a full year. A chart place is not a viewing figure and not a measure of quality — Netflix publishes neither by country. Netflix also states no country of production, so which titles count as Korean is our inference. A title watched widely without entering a top 10 does not appear here at all.