South Korean romance comedy "Business Proposal" was the most popular non-English television show on Netflix's most recent weekly viewership ranking, the worldwide video streaming provider announced on Wednesday.
According to Netflix, the television series, which has been broadcast on SBS every Monday and Tuesday since February 28, received 30.9 million hours of viewing during the week of March 21-27, placing it atop the company's official top 10 list of non-English television programs available on the service.
Based on the popular web comic "The Office Blind Date," the show premiered at No. 6 on the Nielsen ratings list for the week of March 7-13.
It became the first Korean-produced television series to be broadcast on both a local television station and Netflix at the same time, and it ranked first on the official viewership chart.
As of this writing, numerous Korean-language Netflix originals, including the global phenomenon "Squid Game" and the dystopian thriller "Hellbound," have risen to the top of the streaming service's audience rankings since the streamer began compiling such data last year.
In the category of non-English television shows, "Twenty Five Twenty One," a Korean romantic comedy, came in second place with 24.1 million hours of viewing, and has remained in the top 10 for five weeks in a row.
There are four additional Korean-language shows on the same chart: "Forecasting Love and Weather," "Juvenile Justice," "All of Us Are Dead," and "Thirty-Nine," all of which air in Korea.