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Top 98 Movie genres in South Korea

This curated ranking covers the 98 largest movie genres in South Korea, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Drama movies, Animated movies and Korean drama lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 14M people. Across all 98 entries the average audience size is 573k, and the largest, Drama movies, reaches around 5.3M people in South Korea. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Korea who actively engage with each movie genre, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Korea and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 98, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Korea who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Korea. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Korea, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Korea. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
51 True crime 30k 26.8 73.9% Movie genre
52 Telugu cinema 27k 32.3 45.6% Movie genre
53 Cinema of Iran 23k 37.1 58.9% Movie genre
54 Spy film 21k 21.4 46.2% Movie genre
55 Kung fu film 21k 37.5 70.0% Movie genre
56 Animated series 20k 25.1 42.1% Movie genre
57 Cinema of West Bengal 15k 29.9 49.7% Movie genre
58 Slasher film 14k 31.6 52.9% Movie genre
59 Cinema of Turkey 11k 29.2 64.2% Movie genre
60 Serial film 10k 28.2 86.3% Movie genre
61 Arab television drama 10k 30.3 69.7% Movie genre
62 Travel documentary 10k 29.0 50.7% Movie genre
63 Heist film 9.2k 34.4 83.7% Movie genre
64 Cinema of France 8.7k 28.7 62.1% Movie genre
65 Cinema of the United Kingdom 6.1k 30.4 57.6% Movie genre
66 Cinema of Germany 5.8k 29.0 65.0% Movie genre
67 Cinema of Nigeria 5.3k 33.0 23.3% Movie genre
68 Cinema of Mexico 5.2k 28.7 65.4% Movie genre
69 Melodrama 3.2k 33.7 37.4% Movie genre
70 Spaghetti Western 1.4k 27.2 87.2% Movie genre
71 Mockumentary 934 34.5 58.9% Movie genre
72 B movie 525 25.3 0.0% Movie genre
73 French New Wave 425 43.2 57.4% Movie genre
74 Parody film 405 30.9 44.8% Movie genre
75 Midnight movie 383 42.3 30.3% Movie genre

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 98 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Korea and ranks each movie genre by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest movie genre in South Korea?

Drama movies currently leads with an estimated audience of 5.3M people in South Korea.

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