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A YouTuber, a prison guard and “the strongest man in Korea” walk into an arena. The set up for a joke? No. This is Physical: 100, a South-Korean reality show and Netflix’s latest hit, in which 100 of “the fittest people in Korea” compete in tests of ultimate strength. The cast consists of Olympic athletes and bodybuilders, mountain rescue workers and soldiers; all linked by their wealth of self-belief and lack of body fat. Unlike in deadly drama Squid Game, nobody actually dies in
Gained a cult following in South Korea, and has steadily risen up the global charts in the weeks since, securing the No 1 spot in the UK on Friday. As they watched, fans marvelled at the contestants’ intensity and grit, calling the show a “real-life” version of
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. On paper, comparisons to Netflix’s stratospherically successful 2021 drama – still the platform’s most watched show ever – might seem reductive. But Netflix wants you to watch
The players enter one by one, the dimly lit games room circular and symmetrical. They admire and praise each other’s sinewy bodies (everyone on the South-Korean fitness circuit clearly knows everyone). The audience is encouraged to do the same. It’s obvious that nobody is going to die, yet we’re told that they’re about to be put through “an extreme competition to survive” where “just one body will stand at the end” to win a cash prize.
Perhaps it’s the real-world implications of losing face that drives them forward, but the contestants compete like each game is a matter of life and death. In a one-on-one game, where they wrestle each other with the aim of being in possession of a ball at the end of a countdown, they encourage each other to “go for the throat”. Hair flies. Their limbs slide through mud and sand. In another, where they dangle for as long as they can from a high metal structure above a swimming pool, the water beneath might as well be lava, judging by their reluctance to lose. And in one particularly uncomfortable battle, a male contestant pins a woman down with his knee on her chest. She thrashes beneath him, while the other contestants whisper that she won’t be able to breathe. On
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, contestants hurled themselves at big red balls and a comedy bounce sound effect played. Here, that silliness is gone. It’s kill or be killed.
, a reality show based explicitly on the K-drama. At a former RAF base in Bedford, 456 contestants from around the world will compete in a series of gruelling challenges from the show, an eye-watering £3.7m up for grabs. It’s
, the players are random people desperate enough to risk their lives, where The Challenge is naturally going to attract Type As who think they have a good chance of winning. Netflix knows viewers will watch
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From cutting down on password-sharing to cancelling shows seemingly at random, Netflix is on a ferocious profit-making mission. That’s why we’re seeing more sequels and spin-offs (a la
It’s been joked that Netflix’s Christmas films exist in their own fictional, inter-connected world, and we’ve seen it in the reality TV genre too. Contestants from
Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inNetflix confirmed that the series remains popular on the non-English TV list with 42.79 million hours viewed within the last week.The streamer knows viewers are obsessed with the K-Wave and there are three additional South Korean TV shows that have spent time recently in the Top 10 TV (non-English) list:
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With 43.48 million hours viewed since its U.S. release on November 19. But the love for South Korean television started a while back with the rom com hit
And are eagerly awaiting the second season, here is a quick guide with a brief synopsis of five incredible Korean TV series.
Hellbound (One Season, 6 Episodes) - Unbelievable demonstrations of hell start to take place in the middle of Seoul right in front of crowds. Mayhem ensues as Jung Jinsu, the leader of the up-and-coming religious organization The New Truth, claims that only sinners are marked for condemnation and that these occurrences will serve to make humans righteous. A lawyer, Min Hyejin, challenges Jung and joins forces with the few who try to protect those in danger.
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This romantic drama follows what happens after the crown prince is killed and his twin sister assumes the throne while aiming to keep her identity as well as her true feelings for her first love a secret.
This romantic comedy tells the tale of a big-city dentist who decides to open up a practice in a close-knit seaside village which just so happens to be the home of a jack-of-all-trades who is her polar opposite in every way. As we know all too well, opposites often attract.
My Name (One Season, 8 Episodes) - This action thriller follows a revenge-driven woman named Jiwoo who, after her father is murdered, joins a drug cartel and becomes a mole in the police force to seek the truth behind her father’s death. As the saying about revenge goes, dig two graves. She encounters many harsh realities in her search for truth and vengeance.
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Crash Landing on You (One Season, 16 Episodes) - This heartfelt romantic comedy centers around the whirlwind love story that begins with a paragliding mishap that drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea. When a handsome army officer finds her and decides to help her, both of their lives are forever changed. This one was such a hit that there have been rumblings of a second season.
It is indisputable at this point that South Korean storytelling, whether it be dramatic and violent, or of the romantic comedy variety, is both brilliant and gripping and viewers just cannot get enough.
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