Netflix has actually exposed its 2025 slate of Korean movies and tv series, with the banner cranking up the production of K-content to feed pressing international need.
In the scripted sphere, Netflix will debut a massive 21 series in 2025. Naturally, the crown gem is the 3rd and last season of Squid Video Game, that introduces on June 27. Other highlights consist of the luxurious duration drama Dear Hongrang; the pulsating medical drama The Injury Code: Heroes on Call; the Medical Facility Playlist spinoff Citizen Playbook; the 80s set funny Aema; and the action thriller Trigger
Netflix Korea has actually rapidly developed itself as a leader in unscripted tv and 2025 will see 8 programs either launching or go back to the banner. Culinary Class Wars returns for its 2nd season after breaking out and discovering an around the world audience, likewise Physical: 100 returns and broadens into a global competitors series with Physical: Asia There are likewise brand-new seasons of Single’s Inferno, The Devil’s Strategy and brand-new truth programs Criminal Offense Scene Absolutely No and Much Better Late Than Single make certain to end up being popular this year.
In 2025, Netflix will launch 8 initial Korean movies, consisting of the catastrophe impressive The Excellent Flood; the duration action movie Excellent News; the Eliminate Boksoon spinoff Mantis; the younger love motion picture Love Untangled; the interesting secret thriller Wall to Wall; the police procedural Bogota: City of the Lost; the scary movie Discoveries; and Netflix Korea’s very first initial animated movie Lost In Starlight.
Below is Netflix’s complete 2025 Korean slate.
SERIES
When Destiny Chatter
Logline: “A romantic sci-fi about an astronaut and an area traveler who fall in love at the spaceport station.”
Date: Now streaming
Director: Park Shin Woo
Author: Seo Sook Hyang
Production business: Keyeast, Studio Dragon
Cast: LEE MINHO, Kong Hyo Jin, Oh Jung-se, HAN JI EUN
The Injury Code: Heroes on Call
Logline: “Genius cosmetic surgeon and previous fight medic Baek Kang-hyuk breathes life into an injury group to conserve lives in this thrilling medical series.”
Date: Now streaming
Director: Lee Do-yun
Author: Choi Tae-gang
Production business: Studio N, Mays Home Entertainment
Cast: Ju Ji-hoon, Choo Young-woo, Ha Young, Yoon Kyung-ho, Jeong Jae-kwang
Melo Motion Picture
Logline: “ Melo Motion Picture is a love about youth who wish to both discover love and pursue dreams, conquering injury as they find and influence each other, and their movie-like times.”.
Date: Feb. 14, 2025
Director: Oh Choong-hwan
Author: Lee Na-eun
Production business: Studio N
Cast: Choi Woo-shik, Park Bo-young, Lee Jun-young, Jeon So-nee
The Potato Laboratory
Logline: “In The Potato Laboratory, Mi-kyung’s potato-centric life is overthrown by Baek-ho, a cold pragmatist. A whirlwind recovery romantic funny unfolds, as twisty as a twister potato.”
Date: March 1, 2025
Director: Kang Il-su, Shim Jae-hyun
Author: Kim Ho-su
Production business: CHOROKBAEM MEDIA, CJ ENM STUDIOS
Cast: Lee Sun-bin, Kang Tae-oh, Lee Hak-ju
When Life Offers You Tangerines
Logline: “ When Life Offers You Tangerines follows the experiences of Ae-sun, “the amazing rebel,” and Gwan-sik, nicknamed “unyielding iron,” through 4 lively seasons on Jeju Island.”
Date: March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2025
Director: Kim Won-suk
Author: Lim Sang-choon
Production business: Pan Home entertainment, Baram Pictures
Cast: IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Park Hae-joon
Citizen Playbook
Logline: “This spin-off of Medical Facility Playlist follows the lives and relationships of OB-GYN locals at Jongno Yulje Medical Center, a branch of the renowned Yulje Medical facility.”
Date: April 2025
Developer: Shin Wonho, Lee Woojung
Director: Lee Minsu
Author: Kim Songhee
Production business: eggiscoming, CJ ENM STUDIOS
Cast: Go Younjung, Shin Sia, Kang Youseok, Han Yeji, Jung Junwon
Divine Ever After
Logline: “Upon getting here in paradise at the age of 80, Hae-sook reunites with her revitalized hubby, Nak-joon, causing a love that transcends their earthly lives.”.
Date: April 2025
Director: Kim Sok-yun
Author: Lee Nam-kyu, Kim Su-jin
Production business: eggiscoming, CJ ENM STUDIOS
Cast: Kim Hye-ja, Boy Suk-Ku, Han Ji-min
Grace for None
Logline: “In this noir action drama, Gi-jun, who severed his own Achilles tendon to leave the world of the mob, returns 11 years later on to examine and avenge his bro Gi-seok’s death.”
Date: Q2 2025
Director: Choi Sung-eun
Author: Yoo Ki-seong
Production business: Yong Movie Inc., Studio N
Cast: So Ji-sub, Huh Joon-ho, An Kil-kang, Tiger Lee, Gong Myoung, Choo Young-woo,
Cho Han-cheul, Cha Seung-won, Lee Jun-hyuk
Tastefully Yours
Logline: “In an effort to acquire a food corporation, Han Beom-woo, a chaebol beneficiary turned “dish hunter,” satisfies Mo Yeon-joo, a persistent chef who runs a one-table dining establishment in the little city of Jeonju, South Korea. Their intense kitchen area encounters unfold into a sparkling love.”
Date: Q2 2025
Developer: Han Jun-hee
Director: Park Dhan-hee
Author: Jeoung Su-Yun
Production business: KT Studio Genie, SHOTCAKE
Cast: Kang Ha-neul, Ko Min-si, Kim Shin-rock, Yu Su-bin
Karma
Logline: “In this high-tension criminal offense thriller, 6 individuals are captured in a solid karmic loop, each bound by careless options that spiral out of control.”
Date: Q2 2025
Director: Lee Il-hyung
Author: Lee Il-hyung
Production business: Moonlight Movie, Baram Pictures, Kakao Home Entertainment
Cast: Park Hae-soo, Shin Min-a, Lee Hee-jun, Kim Sung-kyun, Lee Kwang-soo, Gong Seung-yeon.
Weak Hero Class 2
Logline: “ Weak Hero Class 2 informs the story of survival and development of a trainee who moves to a brand-new school after withstanding school violence for a pal however stopping working to safeguard him, and deals with even higher violence to never ever lose a pal once again.”
Date: Q2 2025
Director: You Su-min
Author: Park Hyun-woo, You Su-min
Production business: Playlist, Jaedam Media
Cast: Park Ji-hoon, Ryeo-un, Choi Min-yeong, Yu Su-bin, Bae Na-ra, Lee Min-jae, and Lee Jun-young
Dear Hongrang
Logline: “Hongrang– the child of an effective Joseon merchant– goes missing out on, and his relative Jae-yi frantically looks for him.”
Date: Q2 2025
Director: Kim Hong-sun
Author: Kim Jin-a
Production business: EO Contents Group, STUDIO DRAGON, Acemaker Movieworks, H Home
Cast: Lee Jae-wook, Cho Bo-ah, Jung Ga-ram, Uhm Ji-won, Park Byung-eun, Kim Jae-uck
Squid Video Game Season 3
Logline: “The story explores what options Gi-hun will make in the face of frustrating misery, while the Straw man continues to his next relocation and the making it through gamers’ options cause graver effects with each round.”
Date: June 27, 2025
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuck
Author: Hwang Dong-hyuck
Production business: Firstman Studio
Cast: Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Wi Ha-jun, Park Gyu-young,
Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yuri
( Park Hee-soon: unique look)
Aema
Logline: “This fiction funny provides the battles of 2 starlets appearing in the early 1980s box-office hit Madame Aema“.
Date: Q3 2025
Director: Lee Hae-young
Author: Lee Hae-young
Production business: The light Co., Ltd., Kick Co., Ltd
Cast: Lee Ha-nee, Bang Hyo-rin, Jin Sun-kyu, Cho Hyun-chul
You and Whatever Else
Logline: “ You and Whatever Else narrates the journey of 2 buddies who have a long-lasting, complex love-hate relationship. They discover their lives elaborately connected as they cross each other’s courses through different stages in life.”
Date: Q3 2025
Director: Jo Yeong-min
Author: Tune Hye-jin
Production business: Kakao Home entertainment
Cast: Kim Go-eun, Park Ji-hyun, Kim Gun-woo
Trigger
Logline: “In this action thriller, unlawful guns appear, and shooting events continue to take place in formerly gun-free Korea, and 2 males get their weapons for various factors.”
Date: Q3 2025
Director: Kwon Oh-seung, Kim Jae-hoon
Author: Kwon Oh-seung
Production business: Bidgangil Pictures
Cast: Kim Nam-gil, Kim Young-kwang
Genie, Make a Desire
Logline: “Genie– a magic spirit in a light who has actually returned to the human world after a millennium of his profession being postponed– encounters Ka-young, an impassive female who goes through the movements of life by her grandma’s guidelines and her own regimens.”
Date: Q4 2025
Author: Kim Eun-sook
Production business: Hwa&& Dam Photos, STUDIO DRAGON
Cast: Kim Woo-bin, Suzy, Ahn Eun-jin, Noh Sang-hyun, Ko Kyu-phil, Lee Zoo-young
As You Waited
Logline: “Confronted with an alarming circumstance without any end however death, 2 females deal with to murder and end up being knotted in a chain of unpredicted occasions.”.
Date: Q4 2025
Director: Lee Jeong-lim
Author: Kim Hyo-jeong
Production business: StudioS, Ghost Studio, Mizi Movie
Cast: Jeon So-nee, Lee You-mi, Jang Seung-jo, Lee Mu-saeng
Can This Love Be Equated?
Logline: “A multilingual translator works for a worldwide celeb, and an unforeseen love blooms while their expert relationship takes unforeseeable and heartfelt turns in this romantic funny.”
Date: Q4 2025
Director: Yoo Young-eun
Author: Hong Sis (Hong Jung-eun, Hong Mi-ran)
Production business: IMAGINUS, Tree Studio
Cast: Kim Seon-ho, Go Youn-jung, Sota Fukushi, Lee E-dam, Choi Woo-sung
The Rate of Confession
Logline: “A female presumed of eliminating her hubby comes across a strange female called a witch, and the tricks they harbor unfold.”
Date: Q4 2025
Director: Lee Jung-hyo
Author: Kwon Jong-kwan
Production business: Production H, STUDIO DRAGON
Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Go-eun, Park Hae-soo, Jin Sun-kyu
Cashero
Logline: “A normal civil employee of modest methods establishes superhuman strength that matches the quantity of money he has on hand, and he commits his entire income to conserving the world.”
Date: Q4 2025
Director: Lee Chang-min
Author: Lee Jane, Jeon Chan-ho
Production business: Drama Home Studio, SLL
Cast: Lee Jun-ho, Kim Hye-jun, Kim Byong-chul, Kim Hyang-gi
MOVIE
Bogotá: City of the Lost
Logline: “A boy relocates to Colombia with his household for a much better life, however he winds up living from hand to mouth. He later on breaks all chances to control Bogotá’s black market.”.
Date: Feb. 4, 2025
Director: Kim Seong-je
Production business: WATERMELON PICTURES CO., LTD
Cast: Tune Joong-ki, Lee Hee-jun, Kwon Hae-hyo
Discoveries
Logline: “A pastor is encouraged that a magnificent discovery has actually called him to penalize the individual guilty of a missing out on individuals case, while an authorities investigator appointed to the case is haunted by her dead sis’s shadow.”
Date: Q1 2025
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Author: Yeon Sang-ho, Choi Gyu-seok
Production business: WOWPOINT
Cast: Ryu Jun-yeol, Shin Hyun-been
Lost in Starlight
Logline: “In Netflix Korea’s very first initial animated movie, astronaut Nan-young and artist Je-i start the longest-ever long-distance relationship– one that bridges Earth and Mars.”
Date: Q2 2025
Director: Han Ji-won
Author: Han Ji-won, Kang Hyun-joo
Production business: Climax Studio
Cast: Kim Tae-ri, Hong Kyung
Wall to Wall
Logline: “A male who invested whatever he needs to protect his own location, an 84-square-meter home, is pestered by unknown sounds originating from the other systems in this secret thriller.”
Date: Q3 2025
Director: Kim Tae-joon
Author: Kim Tae-joon
Production business: MIZIFILM
Cast: Kang Ha-neul, Yeom Hye-ran, Seo Hyun-woo
Love Untangled
Logline: “ Love Untangled follows 19-year-old Park Se-ri as she prepares to correct her constantly frizzy hair before making a life-altering confession, all while getting knotted with transfer trainee Han Yun-seok. Embed in 1998 Busan, this youth love checks out styles of puppy love and relationship.”.
Date: Q3 2025
Director: Namkoong Sun
Author: Ji Chun-hee, Wang Doo-ri
Production business: Bombaram Movie
Cast: Gong Myoung, Shin Eun-soo, Cha Woo-min, Yoon Sang-hyun, Kang Mi-na
Mantis (WT)
Logline: “All the guidelines are breaking down in the agreement eliminating market, and when the ace agreement killer Mantis returns after a long trip, he, his competitor and previous training friend Jae-yi, and the famous killer Dokgo, coming out of retirement, all vie for the number-one area. Mantis is the spinoff actioner of Eliminate Boksoon and is embeded in the very same agreement eliminating market.”
Date: Q3 2025
Director: Lee Tae-sung
Author: Byun Sung-hyun, Lee Tae-sung
Production business: SEE AT Movie Co., LTD.
Cast: Yim Si-wan, Park Gyu-young, Jo Woo-jin
Excellent News
Logline: “Embed in the 1970s, a group of individuals collected to land a pirated aircraft at all expenses develop a suspicious strategy.”
Date: Q4 2025
Director: Byun Sung-hyun
Production business: Star Platinum
Cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Hong Kyung, Ryoo Seung-bum
The Excellent Flood
Logline: “On the last day of Earth conquered by an excellent flood, those keeping the last shred of wish for humankind battle to make it through in a flooded apartment in this sci-fi catastrophe smash hit movie.”
Date: Q4 2025
Director: Kim Byung-woo
Author: Kim Byung-woo, Han Ji-su
Production business: Hwansang Studios
Cast: Kim Da-mi, Park Hae-soo
UNSCRIPTED
Single’s Inferno Season 4
Logline: “The revolutionary Korean dating truth series Single’s Inferno returns with Season 4, marking the very first time a Netflix Korea unscripted series has actually reached this turning point. It includes honest and steamy minutes as songs browse their time on a deserted “Inferno” island, from which they can get away just by pairing as a couple.
Date: Now streaming
Producers: Kim Jae-won, Kim Jung-hyun
Production business: Shijak Business
Kian’s Bizarre B&B
Logline: “With his raw humor and real beauty, KIAN84 opens a distinctive guesthouse called KIAN Bizarre B&B on the picturesque island of Ulleungdo, created for youth.”
Date: Q2 2025
Producers: Jung Hyo-min, Lee So-min, Hwang Yoon-seo
Production business: Studio Modak
Cast: KIAN84, Jin, Ji Ye-eun
The Devil’s Strategy Season 2
Logline: “ The Devil’s Strategy is back– bolder, larger, and loaded with more intellectual firepower. This season, 14 elite minds, come down on a deserted middle ages abbey for a full-blown fight of wits.”
Date: Q2 2025
Director: Jeong Jong-yeon
Author: Heo Jeong-hui, Jeong Da-hui
Production business: TEO
Cast: Kang Ji-young, KYUHYUN, Kim Ha-rin, Park Sang-yeon, 7high, Boy Eun-yu, Yoon So-hui,
Lee Se-dol, Lee Seung-hyun, Justin H. Minutes, Jeong Hyun-gyu, Choi Hyun-joon, Chuu, Tinno
The Echoes of Survivors: Within Korea’s Disasters
Logline: “The 2nd story of the documentary In the Name of God, which shook Korean society will include the last story of JMS and the brilliant voices of survivors from agonizing, awful occasions in Korea.”
Date: Q3 2025
Director: Jo Seong-Hyeon
Author: Park Min-jeoung, Kan Min-ju
Much Better Late Than Single
Logline: “‘ Everlasting songs,’ or grownups who have actually never ever remained in a relationship, get top-tier training to discover love for the very first time in this groundbreaking transformation dating truth series.”.
Date: Q3 2025
Producers: Cho Uk-hyeong, Kim No-eun, Won Seung-jae
Author: Jung Seon-yeong
Production business: Kakao Home entertainment
Criminal Offense Scene Absolutely No
Logline: “ Criminal Offense Scene Absolutely No is a role-playing secret truth series where cast members act in their picked functions while likewise attempting to fix who the perpetrator is.”
Date: Q3 2025
Producers: Yun Hyun-joon, Hwang Seul-u
Author: Jeon Hyo-jin
Production business: Studio Slam
Cast: Jang Jin, Park Ji-yoon, Jang Dong-min, Kim Ji-hun, An Yujin
Physical: Asia
Logline: “ Physical: 100, which controlled Netflix’s Worldwide Leading 10 Television Series (Non-English) for 2 successive years, returns on a grander scale as Physical: Asia This season, the arena broadens beyond people to a full-blown nationwide competitors.”
Date: Q4 2025
Manufacturer: Jang Ho-gi
Author: Kang Suk-gyeong
Production business: TEO
Culinary Class Wars Season 2
Logline: “ Culinary Class Wars is the 100-person cooking face-off that fired up a worldwide fad for K-cooking survival– ending up being the very first Korean unscripted program on Netflix to top the Worldwide Leading 10 (Non-English) list for 3 straight weeks.”
Date: Q4 2025
Producers: Kim Hak-min, Kim Eun-ji
Author: Mo Eun-seol
Production business: Studio Slam
Cast: Paik Jong-won, Anh Sung-jae
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