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To this point, 2025 has one thing for each form of Okay-drama fan. Motion, drama, comedy, and revenge. Private tales and society-wide interrogations. There are spin-offs and returning seasons for these seeking to actually get invested in a TV world, plus a great deal of restricted sequence for anybody who needs a one-and-done present. These are our picks for the 12 months’s greatest new Okay-dramas!
If you would like a preview of Korean exhibits coming to Netflix within the second half of the 12 months, take a look at our list of new K-dramas coming to Netflix in 2025 and beyond. For those who don’t need to belief our picks, how about what new Okay-dramas have been watched the most throughout the first half of the year?
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Expensive Hongrang
- Style: Thriller, Interval
- Score: TV-MA
- Launch Date: Could 16, 2025
- Forged: Lee Jae-wook, Cho Bo-ah, Jung Ga-ram, Uhm Ji-won, Park Byung-eun, Kim Jae-uck
- Language: Korean
We’d watch Expensive Hongrang for the soundtrack alone. Jae Yi and Hong Rang, half-sister and brother, had been exceptionally shut to one another since childhood. However someday, Hong Rang, solely 8 years outdated, mysteriously disappeared. Returning over a decade later, Hong Rang has no recollection of his childhood, and his true id is shrouded in thriller. In the meantime, his sister, Jae Yi, seeks to resolve her brother’s mysterious disappearance.
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Resident Playbook
- Style: Medical, Drama, Comedy
- Score: TV-14
- Launch Date: April 12, 2025
- Forged: Go Youn-jung, Shin Si-a, Kang You-seok, Han Ye-ji, Jung Jun-won
- Language: Korean
This (long-awaited) spin-off of Hospital Playlist continues to enhance because it progresses. The sequence is about on the Jongno Department of Yulie Medical Heart, the place we observe the obstetrics and gynecology residents’ day by day lives, friendships, trials, and tribulations. The problem forward of them is working in one of the crucial unpopular departments, because of Korea’s present period of low delivery charges.
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Weak Hero Class 2
- Style: Motion, Drama, Thriller
- Score: TV-MA
- Launch Date: April 25, 2025
- Forged: Park Ji-hoon, Choi Hyun-wook, Hong Kyung
- Language: Korean
Netflix was clever to choose up Weak Hero for its second season (each of which at the moment are out there on Netflix). Si Eun is a mannequin pupil and ranks on the prime of his faculty, however what he makes up for in intelligence is that he’s severely missing in bodily power, leading to relentless bullying from a few of his friends. Nonetheless, regardless of not having the power to face and combat, his intelligence is a layer of safety that enables him to make fast choices and make nice use of his environment. He quickly befriends Soo Ho and Bum Seok, and an in depth friendship is fashioned as they tackle the numerous bullies of their highschool.
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Trauma Code: Heroes on Name
- Style: Medical, Drama
- Score: TV-MA
- Launch Date: January 24, 2025
- Forged: Ju Ji-hoon, Choo Younger-woo, Ha Younger, Yoon Kyung-ho, Jeong Jae-kwang
- Language: Korean
Ju Ji-hoon’s terrific lead efficiency as an unconventional physician makes Trauma Code a must-see series. Baek Kang Hyuk is a genius trauma surgeon who has carried out surgical procedures in battle zones worldwide. He’s assured in his skills and has a bulldozer-like character when he thinks he’s doing the precise factor. He begins to work at a college hospital and leads the extreme trauma group there. The extreme trauma group is a double-edged sword for the college hospital. It is because because the extreme trauma group saves extra sufferers, the hospital goes additional within the crimson financially.
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Squid Sport S3
- Style: Motion, Drama, Thriller
- Score: TV-MA
- Launch Date: December 26, 2024
- Forged: Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Nandito Hidayattullah Putra
- Language: Korean
A fairy story ending was by no means within the playing cards for Squid Sport, however sequence creator Hwang Dong-hyuk wrapped up his story of financial desperation and exploitation in a method that felt satisfying and applicable. After efficiently coming into his second Squid Sport, Gi-hun has tried his hardest to destroy the video games from inside. Nonetheless, between the desperation of the guy members and sabotage from inside by the Frontman, Gi-hun’s rebel has failed. Together with his sanity balancing on a cliff edge, and people round him persevering with to die, will Gi-hun destroy the video games earlier than they destroy him?
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When Life Offers You Tangerines
- Style: Drama, Historical past, Romance
- Score: TV-14
- Launch Date: March 7, 2025
- Forged: Kim Seon-ho, Park Bo-gum, IU
- Language: Korean
IU can do no incorrect, easy as that. Ae Quickly is a nervous however rebellious one who desires of changing into a poet. In the meantime, Gwan Shik, whose data of romance is missing however loves Ae Quickly deeply, and tries his utmost to assist her.
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Our Unwritten Seoul
- Style: Drama
- Score: TV-14
- Launch Date: Could 24, 2025
- Language: Korean
Park Bo-young proved herself the grasp of the double position in 2015’s wonderful comedy Oh My Ghost, and she or he does it once more in Our Unwritten Seoul. Yoo Mi Ji and Yoo Mi Ra are an identical twin sisters. Regardless of being an identical in look, they lead vastly completely different lives and have sturdy personalities. Yoo Mi Ji, the youthful of the twins, as soon as had a promising profession as an athlete however is now main a free-spirited life. In the meantime, her older sister, Yoo Mi Ra, is a perfectionist working for a public company and finds herself amongst the elite of Korean society. However on account of a wild coincidence, the sisters swap lives and should now assume the opposite’s id.
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Mercy for None
- Style: Motion, Crime, Thriller
- Launch Date: June 6, 2025
- Forged: So Ji-seob, Huh Joon-ho, Ahn Kil-kang
- Language: Korean
Because of its stacked cast and perfect ending, Mercy for None tops our record of Finest New Okay-Dramas in 2025. Gijun is the strongest fighter in Korea’s underworld. After ending an extended energy battle, Gijun slashes his heels and leaves the felony underworld to keep away from going through his brother, Giseok, who has risen from a rival gang’s ranks. Fifteen years later, Gijun returns after his brother is mysteriously murdered the evening earlier than his retirement. Full of rage, Gijun begins a quest of revenge towards these accountable.
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