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- Oldboy star Choi excels as a supernatural investigator who is tasked with protecting a newborn who shows signs of distress despite being perfectly healthy
- The cause is traced back to the infant’s grandfather, whose headstone has bad feng shui and strange markings, and a cleansing ritual is performed
Condemned by Death, after taking his own life, to live the last moments of 12 other people about to die, Choi Yee-jae’s nightmare comes to an end in Death’s Game Part Two after a wild and fun ride.
The streaming giant’s new documentary lifts the lid on the Challenger Foundation, whose ‘tough love’ programme – including 500-mile hikes through the Utah desert – left a 16-year-old camper dead
The year saw plenty of watchable K-dramas. Here are our picks for the best series of 2023, ranked from good to great – is your favourite on the list?
K-drama star Lee Do-hyun rose to stardom after appearing in Netflix’s top hits like The Glory and Sweet Home – so how did he get here, and is it true he almost became a professional basketball player?
Park So-dam and Seo In-guk star in Amazon Prime K-drama Death’s Game, a fast-paced fantasy-action webtoon adaptation that follows a man sent back to live 12 more lives after jumping to his death.
Netflix’s Sweet Home season 2 doesn’t hold a candle to the successful first season of the horror hit. It has lost the indoor setting that gave the monster action focus, and is swamped with new characters.
From Gyeongseong Creature and the second season of Sweet Home on Netflix to Soundtrack #2 on Disney+, here are 10 of the best new K-dramas to watch in December 2023.
Ra Mi-ran, who stars as a working mum in K-drama Cold Blooded Intern, says the role has had a positive influence on her in real life – she also had doubts about her return to work after time off to have a baby.
From The Glory and Bloodhounds to Dr. Romantic 3, we rank our 10 favourite K-dramas of the first half of 2023. See if you agree with our picks and the order we put them in.
With a story obvious from the start, and that could have been told in a feature film, Korean drama series The Good Bad Mother stretches its narrative thin with some daft subplots – without fully losing its charm.
In Netflix Korean drama The Good Bad Mother, Lee Do-hyun plays a prosecutor who returns physically and mentally handicapped to his previously domineering mother. Redemption and catharsis follow.
Lee Do-hyun, seen recently in The Glory, is back on Netflix in Korean drama series The Good Bad Mother, a heartwarming tale about a farmer widow and her estranged son who comes home.
Korean actress Park Shin-hye has a girl-next-door quality that gives her wide appeal, and the Gwangju native describes herself as ordinary. It’s what makes her so versatile, the 33-year-old says.
New K-dramas to watch out for in April include Netflix political series Queenmaker, Dr. Cha, which follows the trials of an older-than-usual medical resident, and Pale Moon, in which a bored housewife turns embezzler.
From the start of The Glory it was clear where it was heading, and in part 2 Song Hye-kyo’s character Moon Dong-eun’s long quest for revenge against her high-school tormentors is complete.
What are the star qualities that make Lee Do-hyun – on screens now in Netflix’s The Glory alongside Song Hye-kyo – stand out as an actor? We chart his rise to the top.
Netflix K-drama The Glory Part 2 loses some of its punch as a new set of episodes kick off with Song Hye-kyo’s bullying victim turned avenger experiencing some setbacks.
Song Hye-kyo returns as Dong-eun in the second season of The Glory, while Woo Do-hwan plays a conniving lawyer in Joseon Attorney and Yoon Chan-young is a cab driver for ghosts in Delivery Man.
Multi-season Korean dramas are no longer a rarity, and there are many to look forward to this year, including the second seasons of The Uncanny Counter and Taxi Driver.
In the latest Korean drama casting news, Seo In-guk and Park So-dam are in talks for Death’s Game, based on a webtoon of the name, and The Glory’s Lee Do-hyun has confirmed a role in drama Bad Mother.
Song Hye-kyo stars as Moon Dong-eun, a bullying victim who sets out to get revenge on her former tormentors – only to discover new passions along the way.
All four members of K-pop sensation Blackpink model for a different European jewellery brand, as heritage houses compete to sign the faces that will woo the Gen Z shoppers of tomorrow
Revenge is a dish best served ice cold in Netflix’s The Glory, which tells the tale of a woman who gets her own back on her bullies 16 years after the fact.
December premiere for Korean drama series in which Song Hye-kyo’s character plans elaborate revenge against high-school bullies who horrifically abused her.
Rising K-drama actress Go Min-si is a relative newcomer, but she’s already making waves with her Netflix drama Sweet Home and her undeniable chemistry with co-star Lee Do-hyun in Reincarnation Love
From Squid Game’s breakout cast to the rise of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha’s Kim Seon-ho, 2021 has birthed a number of up-and-coming stars and memorable performances – but who is the most popular?
Korean drama set in a private high school draws the viewer in with its enticing set-up, but relies too much on coincidence and glosses over the contradictions in its storyline.
