204 of 405 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
No rumours, no reprints. We count what Netflix and Wikipedia publish, name every source, and say what we left out.
204 of 405 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
Korean titles have drawn between 74 and 79 million hours a week from Netflix's global chart in every year that did not carry a Squid Game release. Over the same span, music and broadcast exports went from $1.88bn to $3.06bn.
7 August 2026
Europe West's challengers average 921 ranked games to Korea's 770 and Southeast Asia's 410. In five of six regions you play more to reach the top tier. In Vietnam you play less, on all four days measured.
7 August 2026
Week of 2026-07-26 · Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam · Korean-produced titles only
“Korean-produced” comes from Wikidata’s country-of-origin field — not from where it was watched. International co-productions that list Korea are counted.
“Shared title” means we cannot be sure. We match Netflix’s title text against Wikidata, and some titles name a Korean work and a foreign one at once. Where that is true we say so rather than drop the row or claim it: the flag marks a title we cannot resolve from text alone, not a title we believe is wrong. Across the whole five-year catalogue, 79.8% of the viewing sits on titles only Korean works carry.
Netflix global weekly hours viewed, summed since July 2021
English Wikipedia page views, 20260705~20260803 · 1,008 actors measured
Last 7 days against the first 7 of the window · at least 300 views this week
Attention is not popularity. A page climbs for good news and bad. We report the count, not the reason.
Korea is treated as the reference point for competitive play, but almost nobody measures how its player base differs from its neighbours’. We count it daily across six regions. A ladder cannot be measured retroactively — a day not counted is gone.
How long staff stay at Korea’s listed entertainment agencies and game studios, how many there are, and the gender split — from company filings. Side by side, not ranked.
Twenty years of Korean music export value by region, 2005–2024. Japan was four-fifths of it in 2012 and is a third now — while Japanese sales kept rising.
Broadcast programme exports grew 5.4 times since 2012. Terrestrial broadcasters went from two-thirds of that trade to 4%; the independent studios went from 7% to half.
All 396 webtoon businesses surveyed in 2024 — by type, by what they do, by headcount and by revenue. The average is ₩8.1bn and three-quarters of them earn under ₩1bn.
Not the famous names — all 248 listed Korean companies in broadcasting, film and audio, and publishing including games. 68,809 people, against the listed market as a whole.
The 50 biggest Korean titles on Netflix, ranked once by how many weeks they lasted and once by hours drawn per week. Of the top eight on each measure, only two appear on both.
Korea’s top 300 players win only 0.45 points more often than the 700 below them — the narrowest gap of six regions, on all four days measured. Elsewhere it is one to two points.
All 405 Korean titles that charted in the six Southeast Asian markets, sorted by how many of the six they reached. 44.4% reached all six,31.9% reached exactly one, and little sits between.
Korea has the most settled top tier of six regions — 54% of its challengers are long-standing, against 36.8% in North America, which has the most players on hot streaks.
Korea reaches Netflix’s global chart with 151 series and 86 films — and collects 22.3 billion hours from the series against 1.5 billion from the films. A quarter of those films go to number one, so it is not that they go unnoticed.
Every Korean musician and group with an English Wikipedia article —2,362 of them — counted over 30 days. Attention, not popularity: a page climbs for good news and bad, and we report the count rather than the reason.
Not included: other streaming services, which publish no comparable ranking · broadcast ratings · actors with no English Wikipedia article (336 of 1,344 in our roster).
Not affiliated with any agency, label or studio. Riot Games does not endorse or sponsor this project. Updated 2026. 8. 7. 오전 8:57:08 KST.