After the release of several Korean dramas and movies, the number of subscribers topped on Netflix by over 60% last year (no shocker there.) Luckily enough, we have a *long* list of Korean content to binge-watch this year so you don’t miss Single’s Inferno too much.
Scroll down below to check out the biggest-ever lineup of Korean movies and TV shows that you’re going to get sucked into ASAP. You’re welcome (!!)
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The Glory Part 2
The Glory Part 2 is to be released in March. Part 1 of this revenge drama received over 82.48 million viewing hours during the week of January 2, making it the most-watched non-English TV program.
Sweet Home Seasons 2 & 3
The sequel to the groundbreaking Korean creature film Sweet Home will return with an expanded world and plot in the next coming seasons.
D.P.2
D.P. brings back the cast from the first season to continue chasing after deserters.
Crash course in romance
A romantic comedy between a hotshot instructor Chi-yeol, who works at the Daechi District known as the education hotspot in Korea, and an ex-handball national team athlete Haeng-sun, who now runs a side dish store near him.
Love to Hate You
Love to Hate You is a romantic comedy about a woman who really hates losing to men and
a man who harbors a deep mistrust of women, experiencing a warlike love and finding themselves healed through the experience.
JUNG-E
The sci-fi thriller JUNG-E and the murder mystery Kill Boksoon are the first two of six Korean films that Netflix is adding to its library this year, along with Believer 2 a follow-up to the drug gang-centered crime action thriller Believer, which will be released on January 20. Other movies tackle subjects including hacking (Unlocked), teacher-student rivalry (The Match), and retaliation (Ballerina).
Kill Boksoon
Boksoon leads a double life — she is both a mother of a teenage daughter and a legendary professional killer at top-tier killing agency MK. Caught between the mission of killing someone and the mission of raising someone, Boksoon refuses to complete an assigned mission and is thrown into an inevitable fight.
Believer 2
A crime action film on the nerve-wracking war between Won-ho, who is still pursuing Mr.Lee’s organization, and the disappeared “Rak” after the bloody fight at Yongsan Station, and Brian, who has reappeared along with a new character, “Big Knife.”
Gyeongseong Creature
A creature thriller set in the spring of 1945 — one of the darkest times in Korean history —
about two young people struggling to survive as they face a monster born out of human greed.
The Match
Teacher and student, but legendary rivals Cho Hoon Hyun (Lee Byung-hun) and Lee
Changho (Yoo Ah-in) play the match of their lifetime in the game of Go.
Unlocked
A real-crime thriller following an ordinary woman whose entire life is upended after she
loses her phone containing her personal information.
Ballerina
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Written and directed by Lee Chung-Hyun, this film depicts the beautiful and ruthless revenge by Okju, a former bodyguard, for Minhee, her best friend. Production by Climax Studio.
Adding to the new series this year, a wide range of genres are available such as romance drama (A Time Called You, Behind Your Touch (WT), Destined With You, Doona!, King the Land, See You In My 19th Life), social commentary and intrigue (Bloodhounds, Celebrity, Mask Girl), drama (Daily Dose of Sunshine, Queenmaker, The Good Bad Mother), and apocalyptic (Goodbye Earth).
A Time Called You
A Time Called You is a time-slip romance where Jun-hee, missing her boyfriend who passed away a year ago, goes back in time to 1998 to meet Si-heon, who looks identical to her boyfriend.
Doona!
Doona! portrays the romance between Won-joon, an ordinary university student, and Doona, a former K-pop idol, as they cross paths in a shared house for students. The series is based on a webtoon.
Goodbye Earth
Goodbye Earth is a Netflix series that depicts the planet in chaos, with 200 days left before an asteroid destroys it, and the stories of those living their remaining days on Earth.
Daily Dose of Sunshine
Daily Dose of Sunshine is a Netflix series that explores the world inside a psychiatric ward and the stories of people in it, as encountered by Da-eun, who has just become a nurse in the mental health department of a hospital.
Queenmaker
Queenmaker is a Netflix series that follows the story of Hwang Do-hee, a PR genius who used to oversee the Corporate Strategy Team in Eunsung Group, diving into an election campaign for human rights lawyer Oh Kyung-sook, nicknamed Ms. Rhino for having survived countless ups and downs, to get her elected as the mayor of Seoul.
Bloodhounds
Written and directed by Kim Joo-hwan, Bloodhounds is a story about two young people who step into the world of loan sharks in pursuit of money and get caught up in a web of much darker forces.
Song of the Bandits
An action-adventure set in the tumultuous period of Japanese colonial rule over Korea about a group of people who, for various reasons, end up in the lawless land of Gando and become united in protecting Joseon for the Korean people.
Mask Girl
The story of Kim Momi, who has an appearance complex, acts as BJ on internet broadcasting every night and gets shocked by an unintentional incident.
Celebrity
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Directed by Kim Cheol-kyu and written by Kim Yi-young, this drama focuses on the world of celebrities where fame soon becomes money, and competition is fierce.
Korean films and unscripted television shows have gained more and more popularity with international viewers over the past year. One of the top 10 non-English movies last year was the action thriller, Carter, while the dating reality series Singles Inferno is presently among the top 10 non-English movies worldwide.
Now for the reality shows this year!
A dazzling lineup of reality shows, spanning endurance such as Physical:100, Siren: Survive the Island:
Siren: Survive the Island
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Siren: Survive the Island is a combat survival entertainment show where 24 women of top
combat power and strategic thinking form 6 teams divided by career groups and fight one another.
And other kinds like zombie survival (Zombieverse) coming of age (Nineteen to Twenty), and mind games (The Devil’s Plan).
19/20 (Nineteen to Twenty)
19/20(Nineteen to Twenty) is a reality entertainment show that tracks the fresh and
youthful lives of Generation Z in their last week of being 19 just before they turn 20.
Zombieverse
Netflix, the go-to platform for quality Korean zombie content, unveils a new type of zombie
universe entertainment show for the first time.
Two additional documentaries are also forthcoming. The true-crime documentary Yellow Door: Looking for Director Bong’s Unreleased Short Film (working title) follows the search for Bong Joon-Ho‘s debut film, for which he won an Oscar. While the true-crime documentary In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal investigates the self-styled “messiahs” in contemporary Korean history.
Yellow Door: Looking for Director Bong’s Unreleased Short Film (WT)
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Yellow Door: Looking for Director Bong’s Unreleased Short Film (WT) is a documentary tracing the quest for the Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho’s unreleased short film, Looking for Paradise.