Save the Date: New K-Dramas & Movies to Add to Your Watchlist in September 2024
I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said 2024 has been an exciting year for Korean drama viewers so far. New OTPs, healing dramas, feel good scenes and not to forget, epic romance stories. Hopefully the streak continues in September because the lineup is spectacular and the trailers seem promising!
Seoul Busters
Main Cast: Kim Dong Wook, Park Se Wan, Park Ji Wan, Lee Seung Woo, Seo Hyun Woo
Premiere Date: 11th September 2024
No. of Episodes: 12; Wednesdays; 1 hour 10 minutes/episode
Streaming on/Network: Disney+, Hulu
Seoul Busters is a comedy crime/investigation drama that shows the life of the worst performing detective team that gets a new elite head. The trailers gives us a sneek peak into the journey of this squad under the new head and how they solve crimes and mysteries.
Officer Black Belt
Main Cast: Kim Woo Bin, Kim Sung Kyun
Movie Premiere Date: 13th September 2024
Running Time: 1 hour 49 minutes
Streaming on/Network: Netflix
Officer Black Belt is a comedy action movie. Lee Jung Do (Kim Woo Bin) is a martial arts officer who works with Kim Sun Min (Kim Sung Kyun), a prosecutor, to catch dangerous criminals.
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The Judge From Hell
Main Cast: Park Shin Hye, Kim Jae Young
Premiere Date: 21st September 2024
No. of Episodes: 14; Fridays & Saturdays; 1 hour 10 minutes/episode
Streaming on/Network: SBS, Disney+
The Judge From Hell is a romantic fantasy, legal, action drama, Kang Bit Na (Park Shin Hye) is a devil from hell who enters the body of a judge. She meets detective Han Da On (Kim Jae Young), who is a kind-hearted hard working detective in the real world, which is worse than hell. The drama will explore the relationship between these two polar opposite characters.
Dear Hyeri/To My Haeri
Main Cast: Shin Hye Sun, Lee Jin Wook, Kang Hoon, Jo Hye Joo
Premiere Date: 23rd September 2024
No. of Episodes: 12; Mondays & Tuesdays; 1 hour/episode
Streaming on/Network: ENA, Genie TV, Viki
This healing romance drama tells the story of Joo Eun Ho (Shin Hye Sun), a struggling announcer who is in the industry for more than a decade. Her other self/alter-ego, Joo Hye Ri, is the opposite of Eun Ho – a positive and happy character. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend Jung Hyun-oh (Lee Jin Wook) is a successful announcer who keeps his emotional wounds to himself.
Gyeongseong Creature Season 2
Main Cast: Han So Hee, Park Seo Joon
Release Date: 27th September 2024
No. of Episodes: 7; Friday
Streaming on/Network: Netflix
The second part of Gyeongseong Creature brings Chae Ok (Han So Hee) and Jang Ho Jae (Park Seo Joon), who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jang Tae Sang, together in Seoul in the year 2024 to fight man-made monsters.
What Comes After Love
Main Cast: Lee Se Young, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Hong Jong Hyun, Nakamura Anne
Premiere Date: 27th September 2024
No. of Episodes: 6; Fridays
Streaming on/Network: Coupang TV, Amazon Prime
This romantic, melo drama, adapted from the novel Sarang Hue Oneun Gotdeul by Gong Ji Young and Tsuji Hitonari, takes us through the relationship, breakup and reunion of two individuals with different values and ethnic backgrounds. Choi Hong (Lee Se Young), a Korean who pursues her education in Japan, meets Aoki Jungo (Sakaguchi Kentaro). They fall in love but eventually break up. When Aoki Jungo visits Korea as a successful author five years later, they meet again.
Iron Family
Main Cast: Kim Jung Hyun, Geum Sae Rok, Choi Tae Joon, Yang Hye Ji
Premiere Date: 28th September 2024
No. of Episodes: 36; Saturdays & Sundays
Streaming on/Network: KBS2, Amazon Prime
Iron Family is a weekend romantic, family drama that revolves around the lives and families of Lee Da Rim (Guem Sae Rok) and Seo Kang Joo (Kim Jung Hyun), who attend the same college and reunite later in life. Lee Da Rim loses her vision after turning 30 but an expensive injection may be able to save her. This drama will take over Beauty and Mr Romantic’s time slot, which ends on 22nd September.
