The Netflix platform announced its largest offering of Korean content to date with 34 series, movies and reality shows of a wide variety, including original productions and fan favorites.
The global fandom of K-Content continues to grow, so much so that more than 60% of Netflix subscribers have chosen to watch Korean titles in the past year. In Latin America, where Korean content viewing hours have doubled year after year since 2017, productions from this nation were chosen by 85% of subscribers in 2022, with 13 titles reaching the Top 10 charts in this region.
In Mexico, some of the Korean titles that were in the top 10 in the country were: “Woo, an extraordinary lawyer”; “We are dead”, “The paper house: Korea”, “Sea of tranquility”, “Juvenile Court”, “Labor proposal”, “The beauty of Gangnam”, “Twenty-five, twenty-one”; and “The bad weather of love”, “The sound of magic”.
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“The global popularity of Korean content continued to grow throughout 2022, with Netflix bringing a wider variety of stories and genres to fans around the world. Over the past year, Korean TV shows and movies have regularly featured on our Global Top 10 list in more than 90 countries, and three of Netflix’s most-watched shows are from Korea.. This year, we’re going further with the stories we tell and how we tell them. With this portfolio of Korean titles, Netflix will continue to be the ultimate destination for compelling, diverse and must-watch Korean stories,” said Don Kang, Vice President of Content (Korea).
New series and favorite stories returning
Survival has become one of the recurring themes of some of the most watched series, be it facing monsters during the dark days of 1945 in The Monster of Old Seoul, struggling to breathe in the dystopian future of the sci-fi series “Black Knight” or fighting to protect the Joseon dynasty in colonial Japan in the action drama The Song of the bandits
This year, fans will be able to enjoy the highly anticipated return of series like “Sweet Home,” “DP: Desert Hunter” and the revenge drama “Glory,” part 2 of which will premiere in March, following the success of part 1 which topped the Top 10 Non-English TV list for the week of January 2, with 82.48 million hours watched.
“Sweet Home,” which set new milestones in the creature genre in Korea, will be back with an expanded story and universe, while “DP: The Defector Hunter” will reunite the cast from Season 1 to continue catching defectors. Other new series this year will cover various themes related to romance (“Your Time Calls”; “Behind Your Touch” (working title); “Crash Course in Love”; “Destined With You” (working title); “Doona! ”; “King the Land”; “Love Battle”; “See You In My 19th Life”)intrigue and social criticism (“Hounds”; “Celebrity”; “The Masked Girl”), drama (“A Daily Dose of Sunshine”; “Queenmaker”; “The Good Bad Mother”) and apocalyptic stories (“Goodbye, Earth ”).
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More movies, more reality shows, more options
In the past year, Korean movies and reality shows have become increasingly popular with global audiences. The action thriller “Carter” was one of the most watched foreign-language film productions of the year, while the dating reality show, “Heaven for Two” is currently in the global Top 10 for foreign-language languages.. This year, Netflix will expand its film lineup with six Korean productions, starting with the sci-fi thriller “Jung_E” on January 20, followed by “Boksoon Must Die,” which follows a professional assassin with an inner conflict over her instincts. maternal, and “Creyente 2”, the sequel to an action thriller that revolves around narco gang members.
Other films will explore themes such as revenge (“Ballerina”), the rivalry between teacher and student (“The Game of Go”) and hacking (“Identity Unlocked”).On the other hand, everyone who loves to go on real adventures will have a hard time choosing what to watch with this spectacular list of reality shows that deal with human resistance. (“Physical Ability: 100”; “Siren: Survive the Island” (working title), zombie survival (“Zombieverse” (working title), coming of age (“Nineteen to Twenty” (working title) and gaming mental (“The devil’s plan”).
Two documentaries will also be included: “Yellow Door: Looking for Director Bong’s Unreleased Short Film” (working title), which focuses on the first film by Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho and the documentary true crime drama “In the Name of God: Holy Betrayal,” which explores four alleged Korean prophets.
“We are very excited about the variety of titles we will be sharing with our members,” Kang said. “There is certainly a scripted or non-scripted movie or series for everyone, and we look forward to our Korean productions connecting with audiences around the world.”
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