Korean horror comedy 'Dead-End Job' tops Netflix's non-English TV chart
Netflix's Korean series "Dead-End Job" drew 8.7 million views in a week and reached the top 10 in 76 countries with a horror-meets-black-comedy take on grind culture.
If your week has felt like a never-ending shift, this Korean series might hit close to home. Netflix said on Wednesday that "Dead-End Job" is now number one on its non-English TV chart.
The series, released on Oct. 30, pulled in 8.7 million views during the latest tracking week, which ended Sunday. It stars Lee Jae-wook and Kim Min-ha.
The show mixes horror with black comedy and pokes fun at South Korea's grind culture, the pressure to work relentlessly and never switch off.
It isn't just a hit at home. "Dead-End Job" landed in the top 10 in 76 countries and took the number one spot in 22 of them, including South Korea and Bolivia.
For a series that is barely two weeks old, that is a big global footprint. It also shows how far a very local story about work can travel when viewers everywhere recognise the feeling.
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