It’s Okay to Not be Okay, The King: Eternal Monarch, and Kingdom Top Most Popular Netflix K-dramas Watched in Asia in 2020

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• Hmm, interesting.

• The most amazing in this list definitely What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim. Drama is what 2 years old? And still rocking.

• I hear these dramas (along with others) also made it onto the Forbes list of 2020 best K-dramas. Congrats. Here's hoping next year brings us even better dramas.

  P.S: I'm really loving Queen Cheorin so far. SHS is an absolute delight to watch. She kills it in every scene. What a goddess! I've never seen Choi Jin hyuk in a role like this. He's usually stoic. But I really enjoyed his scenes here. Plus he's hot! Haha.

• Canada, US and Australia goes to The King eternal monarch and Kingdon. I would actully lean towards The King Eternal monarch followed by Kingdom S2 as biggest netflix then It's okay is third

  • Yes. These western markets have been added saw it on Deadline, Variety and forbes. The King: Eternal Monarch truly scored big in these major markets followed by The Kingdom S2 and it did actully pretty well and I personally thought IONTBO would atleast do better Kingdom S2 but it didn't but it did well for a third position claiming Taiwan

• Record of Youth?? Seriously? But then if people managed to watch The King.... well, it's really a testament to Park Bogum's (and Park So-Dam's, though her role in any if her movies >>>>>) popularity.

  • Record of youth even not get promoted like other drama, Im suprised too

• So in the italicized part it says IOTNBO stayed in the top 10 list for over 100 days in Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Then in those countries they put TKEM. And IOTNBO for Taiwan. Which is which? Cos I've seen some TKEM fans on Twitter bragging that it's the most watched/popular K-drama on Netflix.

  • The most watched in those country is TKEM, IOTNBO stayed on the top 10 list for over 100 days but its not the most watched.

• I'm going to be that person and ask where's Crashing Landing On You and Itaewon Class? CLOY has been on Netfflix Japan's Top 10 since Flixpatrol started tracking in April, that's almost 8 months and it's not the most watched in Japan?

  • Thay actually surprised me.. Genuine question though...CLOY has been in Japan's top 10 ever since it released in February..
    Even in Philippines it continued to be in top 10 untill June..and same for some other Asian countries.. Infact CLOY topped the google search of many countries this year ..
    No doubt the mentioned dramas like Kingdom S2, IOTNBO, King are definitely popular internationally, they deserve to be here. But even dramas like Hi Bye Mama, Mystic pop up bar and the recently concluded Start up made it to the list..and no mention of CLOY, not even in Japan??..???
    Does it have to do with CLOY being added to Netflix in 2019??..cause I remember it featured in Netflix Korea most loved tv shows back in 2019 despite being 2 weeks old..
    Anyways it got its recognition..and i m happy for these other dramas..Hope Netflix keeps producing amazing kdramas next year as well.

    • Wait but when was Secretery kim added to Netflix??..It is an old drama ryt..
      Aaah i must be wrong then about NF involving only 2020 dramas..

• @bbc yup..i had the same thought too..CLOY literally ruled Philippines and was in Top 10 until around May-June..Same with some other asian countries..As for Japan, i don't think i need to say anything because the media has been going crazy over it and ever since it was released there in Feb , it hasn't left top 10 until today..it is like 10 months.

  The latest google trends also showed CLOY topping in many asian countries.. However even Hi Bye Mama, Mystic pop up bar etc and the recently concluded Start Up were mentioned here but nothing abt CLOY??..I thought it could be due to CLOY being started in 2019 where it already got featured in Netflix 2019 list.. But wait when was Secretary kim added to Netflix??..Idk ..i m confused ?

  Lmao!! Anyways all these dramas were huge hits internationally and deserve recognition...

• I think there is a misinterpretation of data, they did not specify the top 3, they simply listed the dramas that were constantly in the top 10 of each country. Correct me if I'm wrong.

  • You are wrong.
    It is specified which kdrama is the MOST WATCHED not just top 10 in a particular country.

• Good for these dramas but if what @Nano said is true, can someone tell me how the hell CLOY was not mentioned for Japan..?? I m not even including other Asian countries .
  It is the CLOY erasure that left me in giggles...
  Like since February, CLOY has been in Japan Netflix top 10.. It has been almost 10 months..So yup..where is CLOY???? Maybe Japan got afraid of Kim Jong Un..??

  • After consistently slamming Flixpatrol data as incorrect/inaccurate, Netflix themselves have released their data and you're still bitter because Almighty CLOY is not on the list. Like Lilo wrote below, its possible Netflix views CLOY as a 2019 drama so they didn't add it to the 2020 list while WWWSK might possibly be there because it might have been added to Netflix this year. It might not make sense but nothing can be done. CLOY not being here is not the end of the world and doesn't take away from its massive achievements.

    • Why are you getting riled up?? i just asked a legitimate question..As for Flixpatrol you can go to their site where they clarified that some tv shows didn't feature in their rankings because they were aired before top 10 was introduced..

      Isn't it surprising that none of the lists mentioned CLOY ?? I know it is not end of the world as it got it's recognition already...but yupp.. curiosity .