November 2026 brings one of the year's most crowded K-drama calendars, with twelve new series premiering across Disney+, Netflix, SBS, tvN and more. The month opens with a lavish webtoon adaptation and closes with an office romance, and nearly every week in between launches a title with serious buzz behind it.
Expect remarried empresses and vampire transfer students, divorce lawyers and traffic-crime detectives, a Goguryeo-era war epic and a cross-border serial killer hunt spanning Seoul and Tokyo. Whether you are after romance, thrills or comfort viewing, this lineup has a premiere worth circling.
1 The Remarried Empress
Navier is the flawless empress of the Eastern Empire, until her husband, Emperor Sovieshu, brings home the runaway slave Rashta, falls for her and demands a divorce. Rather than accept disgrace, Navier agrees to the divorce on one condition: permission to remarry Heinrey, the charming prince of the Western Kingdom. Adapted from the hit web novel and webtoon, the series turns a royal betrayal into a story of dignity, revenge and a second chance at love.
Studio: Studio N
Streaming Platform: Disney+, Hulu (U.S.)
Cast: Shin Min-a, Ju Ji-hoon, Lee Jong-suk, Lee Se-young
Premiere Date: November 4, 2026
Genres: Romance, Fantasy
The Remarried Empress Official Trailer
The Remarried Empress Poster
2 Francesca Next Door
A spin-off of the beloved sitcom Hello, Francesca, this teen rom-com moves the vampire-among-humans premise into a Korean high school. Vampire Pi Na-young transfers from Romania and causes chaos as she fails to blend into the human world, and when model student and class president Jang Woo-joo discovers her secret, the two strike a deal neither of them expected. Fellow vampire Yoo Hyeol's arrival stirs Na-young's buried instincts just as her new life gets comfortable.
Studio: MBC, CAC Corporation
Streaming Platform: Wavve, KOCOWA+
Cast: Han Su-a, Kim Hyun-jin, Lee Seung-gyu
Premiere Date: November 6, 2026
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy, Youth
Francesca Next Door Official Trailer
Francesca Next Door Poster
3 One of a Kind Romance
Gong Yu-il is an ever-optimistic job seeker juggling part-time work when she unexpectedly lands a job managing top star Tak Mu-i. Mu-i is still carrying trauma from a past stalker, but he is secretly a devoted fan of the unfinished novel Yu-il wrote years ago, which once pulled him through a career slump. A star chef and Mu-i's childhood friend, who has loved him for years, turn their slow-burn connection into a love square.
Studio: Copus Korea
Streaming Platform: TVING, Viu, ABEMA
Cast: Park Soo-young, Kim Hyun-jin, Shin Hyun-soo, Kang Na-eon
Premiere Date: November 9, 2026
Genres: Romantic Comedy
One of a Kind Romance Official Teaser
One of a Kind Romance Poster
4 Happy Anding
The comedy trio Asura — Kang Tae-gu, Kim Nam-il and Han Jun-seo — have spent 10 years chasing a breakthrough that never came, and each man is at a crossroads in love as well as work. A mysterious woman's arrival pushes all three toward new paths, across a romance just beginning, a relationship a decade old and a pairing that starts with an outright rejection. The series is a remake of the Japanese drama Life's Punchline.
Studio: Studio Dragon
Network: tvN
Streaming Platform: Not announced yet
Cast: Kang Hoon, Cho Hyun-chul, Kim Jung-jin, Lee Yi-dam, Moon Hee, Yoon Ga-yi
Premiere Date: November 11, 2026
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Happy Anding Official Teaser
Happy Anding Poster
5 What a Boss Wants
Kwon Do-hyuk, a perfectionist chaebol CEO and AI genius, is ordered to prove himself by taking over a struggling entertainment company, but he is distracted by one obsession: finding the unknown woman whose voice he heard on an album. That voice belongs to Lee Eun-chae, who poses as an ordinary job seeker by day while secretly performing as Su, the vocalist of indie band India Red. Their contract relationship turns his carefully ordered life into the one variable he cannot control.
Studio: Godin Media, Artist Studio
Network: MBN
Streaming Platform: Viki
Cast: Sung Hoon, Oh Se-young, Lee Jung-shin
Premiere Date: November 11, 2026
Genres: Romance, Comedy
What a Boss Wants Official Teaser
What a Boss Wants Poster
6 Sword & Silence
This grand historical epic spans the final wars of the Three Kingdoms era, as the small kingdom of Silla fights to defeat Goguryeo, Baekje and China's Tang dynasty and unify the peninsula. At its center stand Kim Beop-min, who rises to become Silla's King Munmu, and Yeon Gae-so-mun, Goguryeo's ruthless military strongman, whose clashing ambitions decide the fate of kingdoms. It is KBS's first large-scale sageuk in roughly three years.
Studio: KeyEast, Monster Union
Network: KBS2
Streaming Platform: Not announced yet
Cast: Lee Hyun-wook, Jang Hyuk, Park Sung-woong, Kim Kang-woo, Jung Woong-in, Cho Seong-ha
Premiere Date: November 14, 2026
Genres: Historical, War, Drama
Sword & Silence Official Teaser
Sword & Silence Poster
7 Crash 2
Crash 2: Fury Road brings back the Traffic Crime Investigation team, now elevated from a local Namgang unit to a regional investigative body taking traffic-crime cases nationwide. Cha Yeon-ho's razor-sharp analysis and Min So-hee's fearless fieldwork anchor a season of bigger chases and more sophisticated road criminals, with rookie patrol officer Ji Dae-se joining the team. The season follows the 2024 original, which grew from a modest premiere into one of ENA's highest-rated dramas.
Studio: A Story (planned by KT Studio Genie)
Network: ENA
Streaming Platform: Disney+
Cast: Lee Min-ki, Kwak Sun-young, Heo Sung-tae, Lee Ho-chul, Moon Hee, Park Ji-sung
Premiere Date: November 16, 2026
Genres: Action, Crime, Comedy
Crash 2 Official Trailer
Crash 2 Poster
8 Soundtrack
The 2026 edition of KBS's long-running Drama Special anthology is built around music, with eight standalone one-act dramas, each sparked by a well-known song. The stories range from a singer-songwriter who develops stage fright after losing her cat to a current-affairs PD reassigned to a children's show, a tentative romance between two lonely people and a detective reopening a 13-year-old serial murder case. Only the first three installments air in November, with the rest following in December.
Studio: KBS
Network: KBS2
Streaming Platform: Not announced yet
Cast: Woo Da-vi, Kim Hyun-jin, Pyo Ye-jin, Lee Ki-taek, Joo Jong-hyuk, Park Yoo-rim
Premiere Date: November 18, 2026
Genres: Anthology, Romance, Drama
Soundtrack Official Teaser
Soundtrack Poster
9 Good Partner 2
Cha Eun-kyung, the star divorce lawyer for whom divorce is a calling, returns at the head of her own firm after leaving Law Firm Daejung. She takes on a new partner, Kang Hye-sung, an experienced attorney who is more passionate about divorce cases than anyone, while her college classmate and rival Park Tae-soo leads a competing firm. The season follows two very different lawyers as their courtroom clashes turn them into each other's good partners.
Studio: Studio S, Studio & New, Artist Company
Network: SBS
Streaming Platform: Netflix (South Korea), Rakuten Viki, Viu
Cast: Jang Na-ra, Kim Hye-yoon, Park Hae-jin, Pyo Ji-hoon, Ji Seung-hyun
Premiere Date: November 20, 2026
Genres: Legal, Drama
Good Partner 2 Official Teaser
Good Partner 2 Poster
10 The Blue Road
When a mutilated body is found in Tokyo bearing a message written in Korean, and a similar corpse turns up in Seoul with a message in Japanese, detectives Kim Seok and Inose are forced into a cross-border alliance. Their clashing styles, and a web involving a Korean-Japanese businesswoman, pull the investigation toward a darker international conspiracy. The series is based on the Korean-Japanese manhwa Blue Road.
Studio: Shotcake
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Cast: Son Suk-ku, Eita Nagayama, Kim Shin-rok, Choi Sung-eun, Jung Jae-young
Premiere Date: November 20, 2026
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The Blue Road Official Teaser
The Blue Road Poster
11 The Substitute
On the day of the College Scholastic Ability Test, three students at an elite private high school cross a line none of them can uncross. Kang Geon-tae, a top-ranking scholarship student from a low-income family, is forced to sit the exam in place of a blackmailer who knows his secret, while the seemingly perfect Nam Jae-yeop's flawless facade begins to crack. Each of the three holds the others' weaknesses, turning one exam day into a dangerous game.
Studio: Studio Dragon, Sidus, Studio Wooyoungsoo
Network: TVING
Streaming Platform: TVING
Cast: Bae Hyeon-seong, Cha Kang-yoon, Park Yoon-ho, Uhm Ji-won, Park Hyuk-kwon, Baek Ji-won
Premiere Date: November 23, 2026
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Youth
The Substitute Official Teaser
The Substitute Poster
12 Nine to Six
Kang Yi-ji is a consummate professional whose work skills earn a perfect score, even if her love life remains a blank page. Her by-the-book routine is upended by Han Sun-woo, a free-spirited new colleague, and Park Hyun-tae, the man who offers her a different route entirely. Based on the Chinese drama The Rational Life, the series follows a workaholic manager learning that not everything in life follows her manual.
Studio: Studio S, Samhwa Networks
Network: SBS
Streaming Platform: Prime Video
Cast: Park Min-young, Yook Sung-jae, Go Soo
Premiere Date: November 25, 2026
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Nine to Six Official Teaser
Nine to Six Poster
From the imperial intrigue of The Remarried Empress at the start of the month to Nine to Six's office romance at its end, November 2026 offers one of the most varied K-drama lineups of the year. Sequels, webtoon adaptations, remakes and originals all share the calendar, which means there is something here for every kind of viewer. Clear some space in your watchlist — this is a month that rewards keeping up week to week.
