The list of Netflix’s top K-dramas and K-movies for the second half of 2024 was released on February 27, 2025. Popular dramas from a variety of genres, such as Parasyte: The Grey, Queen of Tears, and Squid Game season 2, have risen to the top at ratings and viewership charts.
After its much anticipated December 2024 release, the second season of Squid Game, starring Lee Jung Jae, has gone viral online. In the second half of 2024, it was the most watched Korean drama on Netflix. Last year, it had 86,500,000 viewers overall and 6,19,900,000 watch hours. According to data released by Netflix, the series has accumulated an astonishing total of 187.2 million views and 1.342 billion hours of viewing as of 2025.
The drama has not only reached but surpassed the success of its previous season after a three-year hiatus. The fact that it accomplished this even though it was published on Boxing Day 2024, which means that the viewership figures were gathered in a single week. Furthermore, in the second half of 2024, Squid Games 2 was the most-watched non-English Netflix series, while Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won’s Queen of Tears was the most watched show in terms of fan interaction.
The series is unmatched in its genre, with 869,400,000 hours of total time spent by viewers. The romance drama was the second most watched K-drama and the fourth most watched Korean content on Netflix last year, with 36,800,000 views overall. The action films Badland Hunters and Officer Black Belt are the two series which performed well. With 116,100,000 watch hours, Ma Dong Seok’s Badland Hunters came in second, while Kim Woo Bin’s Officer Black Belt came in third with 72,000,000. Parasyte: The Grey, the third most-watched Netflix K-drama of 2024, completes the top 5 list with 141,700,000 watch hours and 28,400,000 views.
