Most Watched K-Dramas on Netflix in 2025 So Far

Picture: When Life Gives You Tangerines, Squid Game, and Weak Hero

We’re over 7 months into 2025, and so far, it’s been another fantastic year for K-dramas on Netflix. Naturally, Squid Game has been the standout performer by some margin, but there are other successful stories to tell from other fantastic K-dramas this year, too.

Over the past seven years, Netflix has invested billions of dollars in one of the fastest-growing markets in entertainment: K-Dramas. South Korea has provided some excellent viewing over the years, with hundreds of titles being added to the library. Netflix has further plans to invest even more money in K-dramas after signing an overall deal with SBS, and will continue to invest in their productions.

For transparency, we’ve selected the data below from all of the latest Korean titles added to Netflix in 2025. However, you can search for your favorite title through our engagement report tool.

How new K-dramas on Netflix have performed so far

So far, we’ve seen 18 new and returning K-dramas on Netflix. The table below shows how the shows and movies have performed between January 2025 and June 2025.

Title	Hours	Views
Squid Game S2	840,300,000	117,300,000
Squid Game S3	438,600,000	71,500,000
When Life Gives You Tangerines	577,000,000	34,800,000
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call	236,600,000	34,100,000
Weak Hero Class 1	122,900,000	22,300,000
Bogotá: City of the Lost	37,200,000	20,900,000
Weak Hero Class 2	112,800,000	19,600,000
Revelations	36,600,000	18,000,000
Mercy for None	85,000,000	16,900,000
Tastefully Yours	137,500,000	13,700,000
Karma	68,200,000	12,700,000
Resident Playbook	173,700,000	10,600,000
Dear Hongrang	103,400,000	9,300,000
Melo Movie	95,100,000	9,200,000
Heavenly Ever After	122,300,000	8,300,000
The Potato Lab	121,900,000	8,100,000
Our Unwritten Seoul	121,100,000	7,700,000
When the Stars Gossip	81,000,000	4,900,000
Lost in Starlight	3,300,000	2,000,000

Squid Game is Netflix’s Golden Goose

It’s been an enormous year for Squid Game.

In the final week of 2024, the long-awaited and highly anticipated second season of Squid Game landed on Netflix. However, with the second season only available for six days in 2024, the majority of its viewership occurred in 2025. Suffice it to say, the second season was an overwhelming success for Netflix, firmly cementing its place as one of the best-performing Netflix Originals ever produced by the streamer.

In 2025, the second season alone was watched for a total of 840,300,000 hours, which equated to 117.3 million views. When combined with the data from the end of 2024, that means Squid Game season 2 has been watched for an astonishing total of 1,460,200,000 hours, which equates to 203.8 million views.

Season	Hours Viewed	Netflix Views
Squid Game S2 (2025)	619,900,000	86,500,000
Squid Game S2 (2024)	840,300,000	117,300,000
Total	1,460,200,000	203,800,000

At the very end of June, we also saw the finale of Squid Game with the release of the third season. In just four days, the final season of Squid Game was watched for 438,600,000 hours, which equates to 71.5 million views, an impressive opening week, especially considering the data spanned just four days. We’ll understand the actual impact of the third season when the engagement report for the second half of 2025 arrives in several months.

So, what has been the impact of Squid Game on Netflix in 2025? Overwhelmingly positive. When combining the data for all three seasons, in 2025 alone, Squid Game was watched for over 1.672 billion hours, which equates to a massive 230,800,000 views.

Season	Hours Viewed	Netflix Views
Squid Game S1	348,900,000	42,000,000
Squid Game S2	840,300,000	117,300,000
Squid Game S3	438,600,000	71,500,000
Total	1,672,800,000	230,800,000

While the engagement report only tells us the story from the opening week of the third season, thanks to the weekly top ten data, we already know that the third season has been watched for 749,600,000 hours, which equates to 122.3 million views.

Week in Top 10	Week Period	Hours Viewed	Views / CVE	Weekly Rank
1	June 22nd, 2025 to June 29th, 2025	368,400,000 (New)	60,100,000	1
2	June 29th, 2025 to July 6th, 2025	283,800,000 (-23%)	46,300,000	1
3	July 6th, 2025 to July 13th, 2025	97,400,000 (-66%)	15,900,000	1

If anyone was wondering why Netflix is continuing with the franchise with the upcoming American adaptation, you’ve only got to take a peek at the data to understand why.

Combining all the data from every data report we have available since Squid Game debuted in September 2021, the true extent of Squid Game’s viewership paints a mind-boggling picture.

Season	Hours Viewed	Netflix Views
Squid Game S1	3,057,990,000	371,600,000
Squid Game S2	1,462,800,000	203,800,000
Squid Game S3	749,600,000	122,300,000
Total	5,270,039,000	697,700,000

To put that into perspective, based on the available data, at a minimum, Netflix subscribers have spent the equivalent of 601,602 years watching Squid Game!

When Life Gives You Tangerines is a hit with subscribers

Now, to move on from Squid Game, there have been other relatively successful K-dramas on Netflix in 2025.

One such K-drama that has resonated with audiences has been the romantic drama, When Life Gives You Tangerines. The pairing of musicians IU and Park Bo Gum was too irresistible for some not to tune in, and not to mention the incredible performances from Moon So Ri and Park Hae Joon, which cemented the K-drama’s place as the second-best-performing Korean series on Netflix in 2025.

Title	Hours	Views
When Life Gives You Tangerines	577,000,000	34,800,000

Compared to other K-dramas produced by Netflix, the series had an unusual release. Across March, batches of four episodes were released weekly. While K-drama fans are no strangers to weekly releases, it’s rare for Netflix to release episodes in batches for a K-drama. Whatever the reason for the release schedule, it seemed to work, and fans and critics alike fell in love with the series, making it one of the standout performers so far in 2025.

The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call is another great medical drama

Medical dramas are a dime a dozen. However, when done right, they are often some of the best-performing television shows around. You’ve only got to take a look at American television, where shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, House, Chicago Med, and ER have been massive hits. The same can be said for Korea, with shows like The Good Doctor, Hospital Playlist, and Doctor Stranger. Now, to add another name to the list is The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call.

For hours viewed, it is beaten by When Life Gives You Tangerines by the hundreds of millions. However, when compared against the number of Netflix Views, the medical K-drama narrowly misses out by 700,000 to be Netflix’s second-best-performing Korean original in 2025.

Title	Hours	Views
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call	236,600,000	34,100,000

The series stars Ju Ji-hoon, who was a massive hit with subscribers thanks to his role as Crown Prince Lee Chang in the zombie-horror series Kingdom. His role as Baek Gang Hyeok was the actor’s first appearance on Netflix for five years, and his performance was nothing short of brilliant.

If you’re looking for something new to watch, then definitely give The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call a watch!

Weak Hero Class has had a great 2025

One of the most popular additions to Netflix in 2025 has been Weak Class. Not only was the long-awaited sequel season released exclusively on Netflix, but we finally saw the debut of the first season on the platform in March 2025.

Since making their respective debuts, Weak Hero Class has been the standout performer on Netflix. Individually, both seasons trail behind the likes of When Life Gives You Tangerines, The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, and Bogotá: City of the Lost, but collectively, the series has outperformed every new K-drama on Netflix except for Squid Game.