‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ ‘Squid Game’ Stars Fete Netflix’s Korea Decade as Ted Sarandos Teases ‘Tantara,’ ‘All of Us Are Dead’ Season 2 — SkimNews
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- Netflix Janchi ran Oct. 24-25 at Seoul's Sangam Oil Tank Culture Park as the streamer marked 10 years in Korea, drawing thousands of fans to themed booths, games, merchandise and live music; Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun and Park Hae-soo appeared for "Squid Game," with Ahn Hyo-seop for "KPop Demon Hunters."
- Ted Sarandos previewed a crowded slate, with Lee Chang-dong's "Possible Love" due Nov. 6 and "Tantara," starring Song Hye-kyo, Gong Yoo and Kim Seol-hyun, on Dec. 11, while "All of Us Are Dead" Season 2, "Solo Leveling" with Byeon Woo-seok, "Grand Galaxy Hotel" and "She, Wolf" remain undated.
- Squid Game Season 1 holds Netflix's longest Global Top 10 run at 32 straight weeks, nine at No. 1; more than 200 Korean titles have charted since June 2021, and "Teach You a Lesson" now sits No. 10 among Netflix's most-watched non-English series.
- Netflix logged more than 12 billion viewing hours of Korean content between April 2025 and March 2026, second only to U.S. productions, and over four in five of its subscribers worldwide have sampled at least one Korean title.
- Park Yoon-seo made his directing debut this year with the YA horror series "If Wishes Could Kill" after assisting on "Kingdom" Season 2, casting only newcomers with Netflix's sign-off; first-time directors or writers made more than a third of Netflix's Korean titles between 2024 and 2026.
- Netflix worked with more than 80 Korean production companies from 2016 to 2025, on shows employing upward of 20,000 cast and crew plus 70,000 extras and day workers across 100-plus cities and towns, with over half of shoots outside the Seoul Capital Area; "When Life Gives You Tangerines" alone added more than KRW90 billion ($60.4 million) to the Korean economy.
- Physical: 100 became the first unscripted show not in English to lead Netflix's Global Top 10, with local versions in Italy and Mexico and U.S., French and Swedish editions on the way, while Netflix now uses 122 localization partners globally, 119 of them dubbing studios.
Why it matters: Netflix's Korean slate is no longer a tentpole bet: 200-plus Korean titles have reached the Global Top 10 since 2021, K-content drew 12 billion viewing hours in a year, and first-timers made over a third of 2024-26 titles. The volume now runs through local creators and 80-plus partner production companies, not a few franchise hits.
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