Netflix already revealed its 2025 slate of Korean movies and television shows, and now that the streamer's crown jewel, Squid Game Season 3, was just released in June, fans are looking forward to other upcoming new K-dramas premiering this year. Some highlights include the romance fantasy Bon Apetit, Your Majesty, Genie, Make a Wish, The Great Flood, Can This Love Be Translated?, and Cashero.
Before we get to the full list, here are the K-drama titles already added to Netflix this year:
When the Stars Gossip – January 4, 2025
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call – January 24, 2025
Bogotá: City of the Lost – February 4, 2025
Melo Movie – February 14, 2025
The Potato Lab - March 1, 2025
When Life Gives You Tangerines - March 7, 2025
Revelations - March 21
Karma - April 4
Resident Playbook - April 12
Heavenly Ever After - April 19
Weak Hero Class 2 - April 25
Tastefully Yours - May 12
Dear Hongrang - May 16
Lost in Starlight - May 30
Mercy For None - June 6
Squid Game Season 3 - June 27
Wall to Wall - July 18
Trigger - July 25
The Winning Try - July 25
Please note that this is not a full list of K-dramas releasing Netflix in 2025. More titles are expected to be announced throughout the reminder of the year. Also note that this list does not include the upcoming unscripted Korean titles that Netflix confirmed.
You can check out the full list of scripted K-drama TV shows and films below:
1 Beyond the Bar
Synopsis (via AsianWiki):
Yun Seok Un is a partner lawyer and leader of the litigation team at Yullim Law Firm. He is a cool-headed risk-taker who pressures his opponents with creative logic. He is admired by his colleagues for his solid skills as a lawyer, but he is not easy to approach because of his cold attitude and complete lack of small talk. Kang Hyo Min is a rookie lawyer and works with Yun Seok Un. She is socially awkward, but she is righteous and confident. She clashes with Yun Seok Un over everything, but grows into a real lawyer.
Cast: Lee Jin-wook, Jung Chae-yeon, Lee Hak-joo & Jeon Hye-bin
Premiere: August 2
Genre: Legal drama
Director: Kim Jae-hong
Here's the trailer for Beyond the Bar:
2 Aema
Logline:
This fiction comedy presents the struggles of two actresses appearing in the early 1980s box-office hit Madame Aema .
Cast: Lee Ha-nee, Bang Hyo-rin, Jin Sun-kyu, and Cho Hyun-chul
Netflix Release Date: August 22
Director: Lee Hae-young
Writer: Lee Hae-young
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Episode Count: 6
Update: On July 24, Netflix released a new trailer for Aema:
Alongside the trailer, a poster was released, revealing its release date:
3 Bon Apetit, Your Majesty
Logline: Set in a dazzling blend of past and present, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty follows Chef Yeon Jiyoung (Lim Yoon-a), a perfectionist French-trained chef at the peak of her culinary career, who is suddenly transported back in time to the royal palace. There, she’s forced to cook for an infamously temperamental tyrant, King Yeonhui (Lee Chae-min), a ruler with a killer palate and a deadly temper.
Cast: Lim Yoon-a, Lee Chae-min
Netflix Release Date: August 23, 2025
Director: Chang Tae-yoo
Genre: Romance / Fantasy
4 You and Everything Else
Logline:
You and Everything Else chronicles the journey of two friends who have an enduring, complicated love-hate relationship. They find their lives intricately linked as they cross each other’s paths through various phases in life.
Cast: Kim Go-eun, Park Ji-hyun, and Kim Gun-woo
Netflix Release Date: Q3 2025
Director: Jo Yeong-min
Writer: Song Hye-jin
Genre: Romance/Drama
Episode Count: 15
5 Love Untangled
Logline:
Love Untangled follows 19-year-old Park Se-ri as she plans to straighten her perpetually frizzy hair before making a life-changing confession, all while getting entangled with transfer student Han Yun-seok. Set in 1998 Busan, this youth romance explores themes of first love and friendship.
Cast: Gong Myoung, Shin Eun-soo, Cha Woo-min, Yoon Sang-hyun, and Kang Mi-na
Netflix Release Date: Q3 2025
Director: Namkoong Sun
Writers: Ji Chun-hee & Wang Doo-ri
Genre: Coming-of-age/Romance
6 Mantis (WT)
Logline:
All the rules are falling apart in the contract killing industry, and when the ace contract killer Mantis returns after a long vacation, he, his rival and former training buddy Jae-yi, and the legendary killer Dokgo, coming out of retirement, all vie for the number-one spot. Mantis is the spinoff actioner of Kill Boksoon and is set in the same contract killing industry
Cast: Yim Si-wan, Park Gyu-young, and Jo Woo-jin
Netflix Release Date: Q3 2025
Director: Lee Tae-sung
Writers: Byun Sung-hyun & Lee Tae-sung
Genre: Action/Thriller
7 Good News
Logline:
Set in the 1970s, a group of people gathered to land a hijacked airplane at all costs devise a suspicious plan.
Cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Hong Kyung, and Ryoo Seung-bum
Netflix Release Date: Q4 2025
Director: Byun Sung-hyun
Genre: Action/Thriller
8 Genie, Make a Wish
Nine years after starring opposite each other in Uncontrollably Fond, Bae Suzy and Kim Woo-bin reunite in Genie, Make a Wish.
Logline:
Genie — a magic spirit in a lamp who has come back to the human world after a millennium of his career being put on hold — encounters Ka-young, an impassive woman who goes through the motions of life by her grandmother’s rules and her own routines
Cast: Kim Woo-bin, Suzy, Ahn Eun-jin, Noh Sang-hyun, Ko Kyu-phil, and Lee Zoo-young
Netflix Release Date: Q4 2025
Writer: Kim Eun-sook
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy/Romance
Episode Count: 12
9 As You Stood By
Logline:
Faced with a dire situation with no end but death, two women resolve to murder and become entangled in a chain of unforeseen events.
Cast: Jeon So-nee, Lee You-mi, Jang Seung-jo, and Lee Mu-saeng
Netflix Release Date: Q4 2025
Director: Lee Jeong-lim
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Episode Count: 12
10 The Great Flood
Logline:
On the last day of Earth overcome by a great flood, those holding onto the last shred of hope for humanity struggle to survive in a flooded apartment building in this sci-fi disaster blockbuster film.
Cast: Kim Da-mi & Park Hae-soo
Netflix Release Date: Q4 2025
Director: Kim Byung-woo
Writers: Kim Byung-woo & Han Ji-su
Genre: Sci-fi/Disaster
11 Can This Love Be Translated?
Logline:
A multilingual translator works for a global celebrity, and an unexpected romance blossoms while their professional relationship takes unpredictable and heartwarming turns in this romantic comedy.
Cast: Kim Seon-ho, Go Youn-jung, Sota Fukushi, Lee E-dam, and Choi Woo-sung
Netflix Release Date: Q4 2025
Director: Yoo Young-eun
Writers: Hong Sisters (Hong Jung-eun & Hong Mi-ran)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Episode Count: 10
12 The Price of Confession
Logline:
A woman suspected of killing her husband encounters a mysterious woman called a witch, and the secrets they harbor unfold.
Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Go-eun, Park Hae-soo, and Jin Sun-kyu
Netflix Release Date: Q4 2025
Director: Lee Jung-hyo
Writer: Kwon Jong-kwan
Genre: Mystery/Drama
Episode Count: 12
13 Cashero
Logline:
An ordinary civil worker of modest means develops superhuman strength that matches the amount of cash he has on hand, and he devotes his whole paycheck to saving the world.
Cast: Lee Jun-ho, Kim Hye-jun, Kim Byong-chul, and Kim Hyang-gi
Netflix Release Date: Q4 2025
Director: Lee Chang-min
Writer: Lee Jane & Jeon Chan-ho
Genre: Action/Fantasy/Superhero
Note that Netflix already confirmed other K-drama titles but they are currently not confirmed to release this year, such as Bloodhounds Season 2, The Art of Sarah, The Confidence Man, Scandal, The Wonder Fools, East Palace, Show Business (WT), Boyfriend on Demand, and the highly-anticipated All of Us Are Dead Season 2.
This list will be updated as we get more official updates from Netflix, so feel free to bookmark this page as a reminder, and join the community of fans in the Netflix KDrama Fans Facebook group to talk about these upcoming Korean titles.
