A newK-dramahas already made its way onto a major Netflix streaming chart. The streaming platform has a wide library of licensed movie and television titles, but over the years it has become known for its originals. Their flagship series include the 1980s-set fantasy sci-fi dramaStranger Things, the killer anthologyMonster(which has so far brought the stories of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers to the screen), the steamy Regency-era romanceBridgerton, the Spanish crime dramaMoney Heist, its prequel seriesBerlin, and the action-thrillerThe Night Agent.
Some of the most popular series on the platform areNetflix original K-dramas. The streamer has scored hits with a variety of K-dramas, includingSweet Home,Hellbound, andAll Of Us Are Dead. However, by far the most popular is the survival thrillerSquid Game.Season 1 is the most-watched Netflix original series in any language, while season 2 is the third most-watched, falling behind season 1 of the English-language seriesWednesday.
Karma Is Already Charting On Netflix
It Has Only Been Available For A Few Days
Now,a new K-drama centering aSquid Gamecast member has made a splashon the platform. The crime thrillerKarma, which is adapted from the Choi Hee-seon webtoon of the same name, stars Park Hae-soo as Kim Beom-jun, a man whose life is plunged into chaos when he witnesses an accident and finds his fate intertwined with a variety of other seemingly disconnected characters. TheKarmacastalso includes Kim Sung-kyun (Divorce Attorney Shin), Shin Min-a (Oh My Venus), Lee Hee-joon (Handsome Guys), Lee Kwang-soo (Running Man), and Gong Seung-yeon (Aloners).
Park Hae-soo played Player 218, Cho Sang-woo, inSquid Gameseason 1.
Netflixhas now calculated their global Top 10 chart of the most-watched non-English shows for the week of March 31 through April 6. Thanks to 3.6 million viewers accumulating a total of 19.3 million viewing hours,Karmahas debuted at No. 5 on the chart, in spite of the fact that it premiered on April 4, which means that this total only measures its first three days on the platform. The show is in the Top 10 in 37 different countries spread across four continents, including South Korea, Japan, Chile, Argentina, Greece, Romania, Morocco, and Nigeria.
What This Means For Netflix
Their K-Drama Stable Continues To Grow
The Netflix success ofKarmaseason 1comes at a time that theK-dramagenre has been performing particularly well on the streamer. In fact,it is accompanied on the current chart by three other South Korean series, namelyThe Potato Lab(No. 8),Weak Hero: Class 1(No. 4), andWhen Life Gives You Tangerines(No. 1). If it continues to maintain a strong position on the chart, this could not only mean that it will likely be renewed for season 2, but it could help lead Netflix to continue developing even more series in the same vein.
Karma
Cast
Karma is a crime thriller intertwining the lives of six individuals after a fateful accident. Released on June 17, 2025, the series explores themes of destiny and morality as the characters confront their intertwined pasts and hidden truths.
