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Rank the standout Korean dramas premiering in the second half of 2026. Compare anticipated titles across romance, medical noir, period espionage, and workplace comedy, then order them from must-watch favorites to ones you would skip.
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Use this template to rank the Korean dramas scheduled or released in the second half of 2026. The list spans several genres: The Ordinary Jackpot, Love in Disguise, Made in Korea 2, A Love Other Than Yours, kiDnap GAME, 100 Days of Lies, Take Charge of My Heart, Final Table, Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia, and Love Doctor. Sort them by anticipation, cast appeal, or storytelling strength to build your personal watchlist.
Editorial review: 2026-09-29
Based on a webtoon, The Ordinary Jackpot is a fantasy office comedy starring Lee Jun-hyuk, Seo Hyun-woo, and Oh Dae-hwan. Lee plays Gong Eun-tae, manager of Sales Team 1 at Hongsung International, who is worn down by workplace pressure. After unexpectedly winning a 1.3 billion won lottery jackpot, he shocks everyone by continuing to work, using his windfall to push back against office injustice in a comedic survival story.
Official sourceLove in Disguise is a tvN romance drama starring Im Si-wan and Seol In-ah, adapted from the web novel and webtoon Why Don't You Know I'm a Woman? Im plays Yoon Yi-jun, the arrogant heir of Taegang Group who becomes a murder suspect, while Seol plays Kang Jae-hee, a former special-forces officer who goes undercover as his secretary to investigate him, sparking an unexpected romance.
Official sourceMade in Korea Season 2 is a six-episode Disney+ crime thriller starring Hyun Bin, Jung Woo-sung, and Woo Do-hwan, directed by Woo Min-ho. Set in politically unstable 1979 South Korea, it follows intelligence official Baek Ki-tae, whose ambition spirals after rising to deputy director, and prosecutor Jang Geon-yeong, who turns to obsessive revenge after season one's devastation. Woo Do-hwan plays an officer torn between family and loyalty as the three collide.
Official sourceA Love Other Than Yours is a KBS2 romance starring Seo Kang-joon and Ahn Eun-jin. It follows Namgung Ho and Lee Mi-do, who have known each other since age seven and spent a decade as a couple. As their comfortable relationship grows stale on the verge of marriage, unexpected new connections spark emotional infidelity and force them to reexamine what love really means.
Official sourceKidnap Game is a pan-Asian thriller starring Lee Joon-gi as retired Seoul doctor Han Ki-joo and Sakaguchi Kentaro as Tokyo detective Niide Toshiro. After Han's visually impaired daughter and Niide's wife are kidnapped, seven participants across Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok, Naha, and Manila receive different missions and must finish them within ten days, with only one survivor, to save their loved ones. The Channel A and Fuji TV co-production premieres October 6, 2026.
Official source100 Days of Deception is a tvN period spy romance starring Kim You-jung as Lee Ga-kyeong and GOT7's Park Jin-young as Kim Tae-woong. Set during the Japanese occupation of Korea, it follows Gyeongseong's top pickpocket, who goes undercover for the independence movement and infiltrates the Japanese Government-General disguised as a translator intern. There she becomes entangled with interpreter Kim Tae-woong, the adopted son of the Inspector-General. Directed by Yoo In-shik, it premieres October 10, 2026.
Official sourceTake Charge of My Heart is a Netflix romantic comedy starring Kim Young-kwang as Baek Ho-rang and Chae Soo-bin as Na Bo-bae. Based on a web novel, it follows a man whose artificial heart battery is draining and a woman with the ability to recharge him with her electric power. Because his heart charges faster the closer she is, he proposes they live together under a three-month 'charging' contract, sparking an unlikely romance. It premieres October 9, 2026.
Official sourceFinal Table is a JTBC cooking-survival drama starring Ahn Hyo-seop as Kang Han and Hong Hwa-yeon as Choi Song-yi. Talented Korean chefs from around the world gather for 'The Table: K-Chef 2026' to determine the best Korean chef. Kang Han, an overseas-trained chef, becomes head chef of Familia and teams up with floor manager Choi Song-yi, who enters the contest to restore her disgraced father's honor. It premieres October 24, 2026.
Official source"Doctor X: Mafia in White" stars Kim Ji-won as Kye Soo-jung, a genius surgeon dispatched to Guseo University Hospital, alongside Lee Jung-eun, Son Hyun-ju, and Kim Woo-seok. Adapted from Japan's Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon, the medical noir follows Kye Soo-jung as she takes on impossible cases and exposes the corrupt "white mafia" of doctors who place power and profit above patients.
Official source"Between Steps" stars Choo Young-woo as Park Min-jae, a former competitive swimmer whose career ends after osteosarcoma costs him his left leg, and Kim So-hyun as Im Yoo-jin, a graduate student who has lost her direction. Set in a university robotics lab, the romance drama follows the two as they comfort each other through their lowest moments and gradually fall in love.
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