Extraordinary Attorney Woo became one of the most success Korean TV shows of all time and it also turned out to be one of Netflix's most popular shows of 2022. The ENA series was produced by Astory, and it's only distributed by Netflix, so technically, it's a Netflix original series.
The legal drama follows 27-year-old Woo Young-Woo (played by Park Eun-bin), a recent law graduate who has autism. She tackles on different cases with her team at a major law firm in Seoul as her story breaks down misconceptions of autistic individuals lacking "emotional intelligence" and "social skills". With her intelligence and photographic memory, she becomes a competent attorney and as result, gets appreciation from her clients and recognition from other legal professionals.
All 16 episodes of the show's first season are streaming on Netflix, but if you already miss Woo Young-Woo, you're probably craving for more information for Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2. We have the latest details and updates about the upcoming season, but expect more details to be revealed in the near future.
Is Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 coming to Netflix?
Yes, Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 has officially been confirmed, NME reports. Not much details have been revealed about the second season yet, but the news about its renewal shouldn't come as a surprise since K-drama fans from all around the world enjoyed the series and the global viewership numbers don't lie.
Last year, due to the success of Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 1, the CEO of the network ASTORY (the company behind the popular Korean series), Lee Sang-baek, revealed that there are plans to produce Season 2 of the hit Korean drama, but fans will likely have to wait until 2024 or later for the new episodes to arrive.
“Thanks to the support of many people, we will produce season two of Extraordinary Attorney Woo . The goal is to air season two in 2024.”
Is Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 filming now?
Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 hasn't started production yet. According to a report from Dispatch (via NME), the Moon Ji-won, the writer and creator of Extraordinary Attorney Woo, is writing the second season. Unfortunately, fans will have to wait before we get an official production update. The report said that Moon Ji-won will not be writing the new season right away as they're still working on a new feature film this year.
Here's what ASTORY said about the upcoming season, via Soompi:
Because Moon Ji Won is currently busy with the preparations for her film, she will not be able to write the script right away. We think she will be able to start preparing the script in earnest after she wraps up her film at the beginning of next year.
Of course, the K-drama couldn't start filming until the scripts are ready, and it sounds like they won't be complete until 2024 or early 2025, so it's likely that it will be around late 2024 or early to mid-2025.
Is there a Netflix release date for Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2?
Unfortunately, Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 will not be released on Netflix anytime soon, so we're going to be waiting quite a while. The scripts for the new episodes haven't been written, and because of that, Season 2 is nowhere close to filming, so that's not looking ideal for a 2024 release date.
However, if they manage to get scripts ready by the end of 2024, and start production by early 2025, there's a chance that Season 2 will begin airing in late 2025, but if it's unclear if that will happen. For now, we're going to be careful with our release date prediction and say that Spring 2025 is the most likely premiere window for Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2.
Just like the first season, the new episodes will likely be released weekly on Netflix as they air in South Korea, so don't expect the entire second season to release all of its episodes at once.
Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 Plot
In episode of Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 1, Woo Young-Woo tackled a different legal case with a few of them lasting two episodes long, so we can expect the second season to follow a similar format, where she and her team at Hanbada will take on a different case every episode or two.
Obviously, since the scripts for Season 2 are not completed yet, Astory and the writers of the k-drama haven't released any story details for the new episodes, but expect the series to develop Woo Young-Woo's relationship with her mother/CEO of Taesan Law Firm, Tae Soo-mi.
The Season 1 finale didn't seem to fully resolve their story, so fans can expect the new season to develop this plot further. Of course, it's also expected that Woo Young-woo's love interest, Lee Jun-ho, will have a major role in the story, and it's likely that their relationship will face some obstacles again in Season 2.
Will the two continue to work together? Will they marry? Will Woo or Jun-ho have other love interests in Season 2? There's surely a lot of questions that fans are asking now, but they'll have to wait to find out what will happen.
Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 Cast
Expect the main cast from the first season of Extraordinary Attorney Woo return for Season 2, including:
Park Eun-bin as Woo Young Woo
Kang Tae-oh as Lee Joon Ho
Kang Ki-young as Jung Myung Seok
Jeon Bae-soo as Wo Gwang Ho
Ha Yoon-kyung as Choi Soo Yeon
Joo Jong-hyuk as Kwon Min Woo
Baek Ji-won as Han Seon Young
Jin Kyung as Tae Soo Mi
Joo Hyun-young as Dong Gei Rami
Astory hasn't officially confirmed if everyone in the list above will return nor have they announced any new casting information. In June 2023, Astory noted that neither Eun-bin nor Kang Tae-oh, who played the leads in the first season, have been confirmed to return. “The casting of the actors […] has not been decided yet,” Astory said, according to Dispatch (via NME).
Is Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 filming?
According to the report by Soompi, there are no production plans for Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 in place right now. Without a script, don't expect the new season to begin production anytime soon. However, expect the scripts to be ready this year.
If the scripts aren't ready until 2024, of course, production won't start until the scripts are complete, so hope we get an update in a few months.
Update: In March, 2024, actor Kang Tae-oh completed his military service and was already discharged. The 30-year-old actor, who entered the South Korean military in September 2022, expressed gratitude for his time in the service and revealed that he learned only good things and fixed his bad habits. In a note shared with fans, he said:
I enlisted after receiving great love from everyone after wrapping up Extraordinary Attorney Woo ." I faced the end of my 20s and the start of my 30s in the military, and it was a meaningful time during which I fixed my bad habits and learned only good things. I will work to impress with great projects going forward, so please show lots of anticipation and love.
Is there already a trailer for Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2?
There are currently no trailers for the second season of Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 yet. It'll probably take more than a year from now before a teaser trailer is released for the highly-anticipated season. For now, you can check out this behind-the-scenes video for Season 1 from The Swoon's YouTube channel:
Extraordinary Attorney Woo Season 2 Episode Count
The production team behind Extraordinary Attorney Season 2 haven't confirmed how many episodes they will produce for the new season yet, but given that the first season consisted of 16 episodes, it's fair to assume that Season 2 will have a similar episode count.
Note that we will update this page with the latest details once Astory or Netflix reveals more information about Extraordinary Attorney Season 2, so stay tuned!
