The 5 best Korean dramas to stream on Netflix this fall
The fall season is upon us, which means one thing: an import of new K-dramas on Netflix.
Thus far, 2023 has been a bit of a sleepy year for Korean dramas. While there have been some bonafide hits — including The Glory and King the Land — no one series has completely overtaken the K-drama world or hijacked the more casual international K-drama audience either. But the year isn’t over yet, and Netflix has some major titles coming as part of their fall release schedule. Here are the five upcoming Korean dramas that you should be watching this fall on Netflix.
Release date: Sept. 8
Episode count: 12
Recommended for fans of: While You Were Sleeping (the K-drama, not the 1995 Sandra Bullock romantic drama), Mr. Queen, Signal
The inspiration for timey-wimey romance A Time Called You is a popular Taiwanese drama called Someday or One Day, but Korean pop culture has its own history of mixing time travel and romance to great success. Il Mare, the 2000 romance drama film about a man and a woman who share a house in different points of time, would go on to inspire the 2006 Hollywood film The Lake House. (It also starred a young Lee Jung-jae, long before Squid Game made him recognizable to most Western audiences.) And it’s not particularly uncommon to stumble upon a modern K-drama that casually incorporates time travel into its plot. (See: The King: Eternal Monarch or Mr. Queen for particularly well-executed examples.)
Still, there’s something special about a K-drama — or any drama — that uses time travel as a central conceit, and A Time Called You definitely qualifies. The series stars Jeon Yeo-been (Vincenzo, Glitch) as Han Jun-hee, a woman who is grieving the death of her boyfriend, Ko Yeon-Jun (Dr. Romantic 2’s Ahn Hyo-seop) a
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