9 Exciting K-dramas (+ 1 J-drama) Coming Out in March 2025!

March marks the end of this year’s very first quarter, believe it or not. Don’t you feel that it was January just yesterday? Oh well, not to worry. March is full of new K-dramas that will make your year a lot brighter. Here are 8 K-dramas coming out in March 2025 that I’m personally looking forward to watching:

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• Release date: March 1st, 2025
• Network: tvN (internationally, you can catch it on Netflix)
• Episodes: 12
• Main cast: Lee Sun-bin, Kang Tae-oh, Lee Hak-joo, and Kim Ga-eun
• Where have I seen these people before? Lee Sun-bin’s last K-drama was Coupang Play’s Boyhood while this is Kang Tae-oh’s first role since ENA’s Extraordinary Attorney Woo. You might be watching Lee Hak-joo in Coupang Play’s Newtopia and you might remember Kim Ga-eun in jTBC’s King the Land.
• Writer: Kim Ho-soo (from MBC’s Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung)
• Director: Kang Il-soo (from MBC’s Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung)

Kim Mi-Kyeong (Lee Sun-bin) has been a researcher at the Potato Research Institute for 6 years. She loves her job and is very dedicated. When handsome but cold-hearted So Baek-ho (Kang Tae-oh) is assigned to the Institute, their opposite personalities go head-to-head as they work together.

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• Release date: March 3rd, 2025
• Network: ENA (we’re waiting to hear about international distribution)
• Episodes: 8
• Main cast: Jeon Hye-jin, Jun Suk-ho, Jo Min-soo, and Jung Jin-young
• Where have I seen these people before? This is Jeon Hye-jin’s first TV role since ENA/Genie TV’s Not Others. Meanwhile, Jo Min-soo’s last TV role was in tvN’s The Cursed in 2020. You might remember Jun Suk-ho in Netflix’s Squid Game 2 or tvN’s Love Next Door and Jung Jin-young in tvN’s Queen of Tears.
• Writer: Sung Yoon-ah and Jo Won-dong
• Director: Kim Chul-gyu (from Netflix’s Celebrity)
• Adapted from Go Seon-mi’s novel of the same name

Lee Jung-eun (Jeon Hye-jin) was raised by a single mother, Yoon Ji-a (Jo Min-soo). She has conflicting feelings about her upbringing and mother. She’s now a working mother herself, married to a child-like husband. As Jung-eun is doing her best to offer her daughter Seo-yun (Kim Sa-rang) the best education possible but is busy at work, she asks Ji-a to drive Seo-yun to her private academy lessons. There, Ji-a meets Lee Young-uk (Jung Jin-young), an English teacher who takes an interest in her.

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• Release date: March 7th, 2025 (and then, March 14th, 21st, and 28th)
• Network: Netflix
• Episodes: 16
• Main cast: IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, and Park Hae-joon
• Where have I seen these people before? This cast doesn’t really need introductions. But this is IU’s first TV role since tvN’s Hotel del Luna in 2019. Park Bo-gum hasn’t been seen on TV since tvN’s Record of Youth in 2020 either. Moon So-ri had a supporting role in tvN’s acclaimed Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born while Park Hae-joon was part of the main cast of Netflix’s The 8 Show last year.
• Writer: Lim Sang-choon (from KBS2’s When the Camellia Blooms)
• Director: Kim Won-seok (from tvN’s My Mister, Signal, and Misaeng)

The spirited Ae-sun (IU) and kind-hearted Gwan-sik (Park Bo-gum) were born in Jeju in the 1950s. The show portrays their ups and downs as they live their lives full of hope, persistence, and love.

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• Release date: March 8th, 2025
• Network: jTBC (internationally, you can catch it on Kocowa and Viki)
• Episodes: 12
• Main cast: Lee Je-hoon, Kim Dae-myung, Sung Dong-il, Jang Hyun-sung, Oh Man-seok, Ahn Hyun-ho, and Cha Gang-yun
• Where have I seen these people before? The great Lee Je-hoon has starred in several hits, including MBC’s Chief Detective 1958, the SBS’s Taxi Driver series, and tvN’s Signal. I’m sure everyone remembers Kim Dae-myung in tvN’s Hospital Playlist. Sung Dong-il has had several guest roles in the past couple of years (most recently in jTBC’s The Tale of Lady Ok) and his last leading role on TV was in KBS2’s If You Wish Upon Me. Jang Hyun-sung was last seen in SBS’s Flex X Cop while Oh Man-seok, Ahn Hyun-ho, and Cha Gang-yun were all last seen in tvN’s The Midnight Romance in Hagwon.
• Writer: Lee Seung-young (this seems to be their first K-drama)
• Director: Ahn Pan-seok (from tvN’s The Midnight Romance in Hagwon)

Yun Ju-no (Lee Je-hoon) is an M&A expert specialising in large corporation deals. He’s renowned for his incredible negotiation skills. The show follows him as he works alongside his team which includes lawyer Oh Soon-young (Kim Dae-myung) and Choi Jin-soo (Cha Gang-yun).

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• Release date: March 19th, 2025
• Network: Disney+
• Episodes: 8
• Main cast: Park Eun-bin, Sul Kyung-gu, Park Byung-eun, and Yoon Chan-young
• Where have I seen these people before? The magnificent Park Eun-bin was last seen in tvN’s Castaway Diva in 2023. Meanwhile, you might have watched Sul Kyung-gu in Netflix’s The Whirlwind last year. Park Byung-eun’s last leading role was in Netflix’s The Bequeathed and Yoon Chan-young led TVING’s hit High School Return of a Gangster.
• Writer: Kim Sun-hee (from MBC’s The Man Who Dies to Live)
• Director: Kim Jung-hyun (from KBS2’s Crazy Love)

I’ll leave you with the official synopsis:

Dr. Jung Se-ok (Park Eun-bin), a brilliant but disgraced neurosurgeon haunted by a past tragedy. Stripped of her medical license, she resorts to performing illegal surgeries in the shadows, driven by an insatiable thirst for pushing the boundaries of neuroscience. When her path crosses with her former mentor, the renowned but enigmatic Dr. Choi Deok-hee (Sul Kyung-gu), old wounds are reopened and a dangerous game of power and revenge ensues. As Se-ok delves deeper into groundbreaking yet ethically questionable procedures, she grapples with the moral consequences of her actions, blurring the lines between medical necessity and personal ambition.

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• Release date: March 19th, 2025
• Network: KBS2 (we’re waiting to hear about international distribution)
• Episodes: 12 (divided into 24 episodes of 30 minutes)
• Main cast: Oh Na-ra, So Yoo-jin, Park Young-guy, Seo Hyun-chul, and Song Jin-woo
• Where have I seen these people before? Oh Na-ra has had several guest roles in the past few years, including in SBS’s The Judge from Hell and jTBC’s My Sweet Mobster. So Yoo-jin had a supporting role in MBC’s My Dearest while Park Young-gyu was last seen in TVING’s Work Later, Drink Now. You might remember Seo Hyun-chul in jTBC’s A Virtuous Business and might be currently watching Song Jin-woo in SBS’s Buried Hearts.
• Writers: Chae Woo and Park Kwang-yeon
• Directors: Kim Young-jo (from KBS2’s Woman of 9.9 Billion) and Choi Jung-eun

Oh Na-ra (Oh Na-ra) is a middle-aged housewife with two children. In her youth, she was a flight attendant who travelled the world and had a bustling life. Her younger sister, Oh Yoo-jin (So Yoo-jin) is an instructor at a cooking class. She’s also married with two children. The series follows the daily misadventures of these two sister and their families.

Heo Gyun (Xiumin) was a talented writer living in Joseon. His forward-thinking ideas caused him a lot of trouble. As he’s about to die, he’s mysteriously transported 400 years into the future and finds himself in Seoul. He then meets Eun Sil (EXY), an outspoken young woman who is forced to take over her mother’s home-cooked meal restaurant. In order to survive their new reality, these two strangers work together to keep the diner running.

Hee-su (Ahn Ji-ho) is a caring and supporting friend to Chan-young (Cho Jun-young). Hee-su has had a crush on Chan-young for a long time but he doesn’t mind that his feelings don’t seem to be reciprocated — as long as he can stay by his side. He often helps Chan-young with his romantic problems too. One day, he discovers that there’s a rumour going around the school that he’s some sort of love guru who can help with any kind of romantic woe. Will he be able to help others — when he doesn’t even know how to deal with his own crush?

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• Release date: March 31st, 2025
• Network: tvN (internationally, you catch it on Amazon Prime Video)
• Episodes: 12
• Main cast: Lee Dong-wook, Lee Joo-bin, Lee Kwang-soo, and Lee Da-hee
• Where have I seen these people before? Lee Dong-wook was last seen in Disney+’s critically acclaimed A Shop for Killers. Lee Joo-bin was part of the main cast of tvN’s Queen of Tears and Netflix’s Chicken Nugget last year. You might remember Lee Kwang-soo in Disney+’s No Way Out: The Roulette and Lee Da-hee in TVING’s Island.
• Writer: Lee Tae-kyoung
• Directors: Lee Won-suk (who directed last year’s Killing Romance) and Choi Bo-kyung

No Gi-jun (Lee Dong-wook) works for an insurance company. He’s a very intelligent man and excels at his job. He then comes up with a divorce insurance policy, having been through three different divorces himself. His divorce insurance team is composed of underwriter Kang Han-deul (Lee Joo-bin), risk surveyor An Jeon-man (Lee Kwang-soo), and financial mathematician Jeon Na-rae (Lee Da-hee).

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• Release date: March 19th, 2025
• Network: Disney (you also catch it on Hulu)
• Episodes: TBC
• Main cast: Yagira Yuya, Kasamatsu Sho, and Yoshioka Riho
• Where have I seen these people before? We talked about Yagira Yuya’s amazing performance in TBS’s Light of My Lion last year. Kasamatsu Sho was part of the main cast of MBS/TBS’s Red Blue while Yoshioka Riho starred in Netflix’s House of Ninjas last year.
• Writer: Oe Takamasa (who also directed the first season and Disney+’s Tanabata no Kuni)
• Director: Katayama Shinzo (who also directed the first season)
• Adapted from Ninomiya Masaaki’s manga of the same name.

Gannibal was considered one of the best horror series of 2022 and it ended on a huge cliffhanger. Almost three years later, Gannibal is back! Yagira Yuya plays police officer Agawa Daigo, who is assigned to a remote village in the Japanese countryside. He soon realises that the little village and its inhabitants hide mysteries way beyond his imagination.

So, which new Korean dramas will you be watching in March 2025? Are you watching Gannibal 2? Drop me a message or leave a comment with your favourites!