The 5 best Korean dramas to stream on Netflix this spring
Have we finally entered the Netflix K-drama era where everything is a sequel or a spinoff? No — there are still quite a few original K-dramas making their way to our Netflix queues this coming spring, from the wacky comedy of Chicken Nugget to an all-new romance from the writer of Hallyu classic Crash Landing on You.
However, I’ve definitely started to notice quite a few upcoming series are connected to existing hits. From a Hospital Playlist spinoff to the upcoming third season of Sweet Home, Netflix K-dramas aren’t feeling quite as fresh as they once were. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing — after all, we’re also getting a new season of sports reality hit Physical: 100 on March 19 — but it definitely feels like the end of an era. With that in mind, here are the five most promising upcoming Korean dramas, both gloriously new and wonderfully connected to beloved hits, that you can anticipate on Netflix this spring.
Release date: March 9
Episode count: 16 (two episodes weekly)
Recommended for fans of: Crash Landing on You, It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, My Liberation Notes
Most romance dramas — Korean or otherwise — follow a tried-and-true path that mostly spans the beginning of a relationship. We start with a meet-cute, the two fall in love, and maybe we get a wedding or period of bliss before the curtain closes. Queen of Tears is unique because its story is mainly concerned with everything that comes after that sequence of events.
Queen of Tears centers the fairy-tale romance between legal director Baek Hyun-woo (It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’s Kim Soo-hyun), who grew up in the middle of nowhere, and Queen Department Store director Hong Hae-in (My Liberation Notes’ Kim Ji-won), a chaebol heiress. The two married across social classes for love, but have since become anything but a fairy tale. They have fallen out of love, or so it seems, and the K-drama will follow the story of how they find their way back to one another.
The show comes from celebrated Hallyu scribe Park
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