Physical: Asia피지컬: 아시아

Physical: Asia (피지컬: 아시아) is a Netflix reality competition and a spin-off of Physical: 100. Created and directed by Jang Ho-gi, it ran for 12 episodes from October 28 to November 18, 2025.¹ Instead of 100 individuals, it put 48 contestants from eight Asia-Pacific countries into national teams: South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Mongolia, Indonesia, Turkey, Australia and the Philippines, competing for a ₩1 billion prize.¹

It keeps the parent show's format and its plaster torso casts, which eliminated contestants smash with a sledgehammer, but the quests are played by teams.¹ The first, "Territorial Conquest", had all eight teams fight to hold one of four raised platforms on a sand dune over three two-minute rounds, and its winner chose the matchups for the next quest. Later quests included "Shipwreck Salvage", a 20-minute cargo haul decided by total weight; a "Team Representative Challenge" scored 3-2-1 across four games; and "Castle Conquest", timed against a one-hour limit. The finale was a best-of-three between the last two teams, and Team South Korea won the season.¹

On Netflix's global Top 10 for non-English TV, Physical: Asia spent four weeks, opening at No. 3 in the week ending November 2, 2025 with 23.1 million hours and 5.2 million views. Its best week by hours was the fourth, at 32.5 million, when it ranked No. 8.² That peak is higher than Season 2 of Physical: 100 managed (30.9 million hours), and it appears in DabPop's ranking of Korean reality shows on Netflix's Top 10.²⁴ After the finale, some viewers questioned the fairness of some decisions in an all-Korea-filmed event, according to Wikipedia, which says the producers have not addressed those criticisms and that no evidence of manipulation has been shown.¹ For how the format is built, see DabPop's production feature on Physical: 100.³