Here’s an exciting list of romance Korean dramas and web series expected or confirmed to be released in 2025:
WHEN THE STARS GOSSIP
tvN’s When The Stars Gossip (2025), also known as “Ask The Stars” is about two people with different missions in life who entangle in space, falling for each other. Lee Minho plays a gynecologist who spends a huge amount of money to experience the space station as a tourist and meets Gong Hyo-jin, a Korean-American astronaut.
Writer: Seo Sook-hyang | Director: Park Shin-woo | Network: tvN | Streaming platform: Netflix | Release date: January 4, 2025
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TANGERINES
Netflix’s When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025), also known as “You Have Done Well”, tells the adventure-filled life journey of two people born on Jeju Island in the 1950s. IU plays an ambitious lady who is rebellious but full of positivity while Park Bo-gum portrays an extremely diligent guy who is quiet but a silent warrior.
Writer: Im Sang Choon | Director: Kim Won Seok | Network: Netflix
CAN THIS LOVE BE TRANSLATED?
Netflix’s Can This Love Be Translated? (2025), also known as “Love In Translation” tells the romantic story between a top star and a genius language interpreter who work together during overseas trips. Totally opposite when it comes to love language, they often misinterpret and misunderstand one another to the point of getting lost in translation, falling repeatedly into frustration, starring Kim Seonho and Go Youn-jung.
Writers: Hong Jung Eun, Hong Mi Ran | Director: Yoo Young Eun | Network: Netflix
MOTEL CALIFORNIA
MBC’s Motel California (2025) is set in the rural area about a woman raised in a motel who runs away for success and meets her first love again who’s now a veterinarian, starring Lee Se-young and Na In-woo. The drama is based on the novel, “Home, Bitter Home” by Shim Yoon-seo.
Screenwriter: Lee Seo-Yoon | Director: Kim Hyun-min | Network: MBC | Streaming platform: Viki | Release date: January 10, 2025
NEWTOPIA
Coupang Play’s Newtopia (2025) is a fantasy-romance drama that follows a couple separated by different careers in life who runs towards each other across the city that has been attacked with infected zombies. Park Jeong-min plays a military soldier who feels anxious about the future while BLACKPINK’s Jisoo portrays the soldier’s girlfriend known to be a former college goddess. The drama is based on the novel, “Influenza” by Han Sang Woon.
Screenwriters: Han Jin-won, Ji Ho-jin | Director: Yoon Sung-hyun | Network: Coupang Play | Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video | Release date: February 7, 2025
OUR MOVIE
SBS TV’s Our Movie (2025) tells the story of an aspiring film director who loses momentum after a successful debut project, and an aspiring actress who tries to live as the main character of her life after being diagnosed with a terminal disease, starring Namgoong Min and Jeon Yeo-been.
Screenwriters: Han Ha-eun, Kang Kyung-Min | Director: Lee Jeong-hem | Network: SBS
LOVE SCOUT
SBS TV’s Love Scout (2025), also known as “Between Greetings” and “My Perfect Secretary”, portrays how an unexpected bond grows when a workaholic female CEO hires a kind-hearted single father as her secretary, starring Han Ji-min and Lee Joon-hyuk.
Screenwriter: Ji Eun | Directors: Ham Joon-ho, Kim Jae-hong | Network: SBS | Streaming platform: Netflix | Release date: January 03, 2025
ALL THE LOVE YOU WISH FOR
Netflix’s All The Love You Wish For (2025), also known as “Everything Will Come True”, depicts the romance between an overemotional genie who is trapped inside a lamp and an emotionless woman who helps him escape from imprisonment, facing luck or punishment over three wishes, starring Kim Woo-bin and Bae Suzy.
Screenwriter: Kim Eun Sook | Director: Lee Byung HUN | Network: Netflix
THE SCANDAL OF CHUNHWA
TVING’s The Scandal of Chunhwa (2025), also known as “The Love Story of Chunhwa”, is historical-romance drama that tells the story of a free-spirited princess in the royal family who declares to find the man she will marry instead of the one selected by the King, starring Go Ara and Chang Ryul.
Writer: Seo Eun Jung | Director: Lee Gwang Young | Network: TVING | Release date: February 6, 2025
YOUR TASTE
Studio Genie’s Your Taste (2025) is a romantic-comedy drama about two people with different backgrounds and philosophies about food who end up running a small restaurant together in the city of taste, starring Kang Haneul and Go Minsi.
Screenwriter: Jung Soo Yoon | Director: Park Dan Hee | Network: Studio Genie
BLACK SALT DRAGON
tvN’s Black Salt Dragon (2025), also known as “My Dearest Nemesis”, tells the story of two people who first meet as online game characters during school days and reunite in real life as boss and employee after 16 years, starring Moon Ga-young and Choi Hyun-wook. The drama is based on: the webtoon, “That Man Is Black Salt Dragon” by Hye Jin-yang.
Screenwriter: Kim Soo-yeon | Director: Lee So-hyun | Network: tvN
MY YOUTH
My Youth (2025) follows the story of two individuals who survived the darkest times of their lives together in the past and reunite after 10 years, creating shared moments anew, starring Song Joongki and Chun Woo Hee.
Writer: Park Si-Hyun | Director: Lee Sang Yeop
WAY BACK LOVE
TVING’s Way Back Love (2025) tells the story of a young woman who has lost the will to live, isolating herself from society, until a dead childhood friend appears before her as a grim reaper, starring Kim Min-ha and Gong Myung. The drama is based on the novel, “A Week before I Die” by Seo Eun-Chae.
Novel writer: Seo Eun-chae | Director: Choi Ha-na | Network: TVING
THE FIRST NIGHT WITH THE DUKE
KBS2’s The First Night With the Duke (2025) follows the story of an ordinary college student whose soul takes possession of the body of a minor character in a romance novel and spends a night with the obsessive male lead, starring Seohyun and Taecyeon. The drama is based on the web novel, “The First Night With the Duke” by Hwang Do-tol.
Screenwriter: Jeon Seon-young | Director: Lee Woong-Hee | Network: KBS2
BUNNY AND HER BOYS
MBC’s Bunny And Her Boys (2025) is set in a university about a woman called Bunny who gets entangled with good-looking men after ending a dark chapter with her first love, starring Roh Jeong-eui, Lee Chae-Min, and Jo Joon-young. The drama is based on the webtoon, “Bunny and Her Boys” by Ni-eun.
Screenwriter: Sung So-Eun | Director: Kim Ji-hoon | Network: MBC
USELESS LOVE
Useless Love (2025) tells the story of a bachelor man who is clumsy when it comes to love and a single woman who pushes away any man, accidentally spend a night together, sparking a funny romance, starring Lee Dong-gun and Park Ha-sun.
Writer: Park Ji-Hye | Director: Lee Jeong Seob | Network: PulsePick | Release date: January 2025
HUMAN FROM TODAY
SBS TV’s Human From Today (2025) follows the story of a carefree nine-tailed fox who unexpectedly becomes human after an unexpected accident with a narcissistic soccer star player, starring Kim Hye-yoon and Lomon.
Screenwriters: Park Chan-young, Jo Ah-Young | Director: Kim Jung-kwon | Network: SBS
SPRING OF YOUTH
SBS TV’s Spring of Youth (2025), also known as “Spring of the Four Seasons”, is a teen-romance drama that follows a K-pop superstar who gets ousted from the band and navigates life anew as a college student, forming a co-ed band and falling in love with a music student, starring Ha Yoo-joon and Park Ji-Hu.
Screenwriter: Kim Min-cheol | Director: Kim Sung-Yong | Network: SBS
UNKNOWN SEOUL
tvN’s Unknown Seoul (2025) tells the story of twin sisters who navigate life anew and discover true love after swapping their identities through a web of lies, starring Park Bo-young and Jinyoung.
Screenwriter: Lee Kang | Director: Park Shin-woo | Network: tvN
HAUNTED PALACE
SBS TV’s Haunted Palace (2025) is a historical-fantasy, romance drama about a shaman and a mythical serpent trapped in the body of her first love who face a vengeful Eight Feet Tall spirit together, targeting the royal family, starring BONA and Yook Sung-jae.
Screenwriter: Yoon Soo-Jung | Director: Yoon Seong-sik | Network: SBS
THE POTATO LAB
tvN’s The Potato Lab (2025), also known as “Potato Research Institute”, is set against the backdrop of a potato research institute in a mountain valley about a researcher who is crazy about potatoes and a merciless capitalist who appears at the potato research institute, stirring the peaceful life of the researcher, starring Lee Sun-bin and Kang Tae-oh.
Screenwriter: Kim Ho-soo | Director: Kang Il-soo | Network: tvN
WIFE OF A 21ST CENTURY PRINCE
MBC’s Wife of a 21st Century Prince (2025) depicts the romance in the 21st century constitutional monarchy Republic of Korea between a chaebol heiress who feels annoyed because she has everything but is only a commoner in status, and a prince who feels sad because he has nothing but his royal status due to being born as the second son of the king, starring IU and Byeon Woo-seok.
Screenwriter: Yoo Ah-In | Network: MBC
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