The series everyone is talking about: why they broke out, who is in them, which network aired them and where to watch, with cast profiles alongside.
At the 4th Blue Dragon Series Awards in Incheon on 18 July 2025, IU won Best Actress for the Netflix series When Life Gives You Tangerines, took the Upbit Popular Star Award, and saw the series take three categories. The 61st Baeksang Arts Awards gave it four on 5 May, and the APAN Star Awards six on 29 December.
Yuna of ITZY plays Yoon Cho-i, an actress who became a rising star on debut, in tvN's My Bias, My Boss, which premiered on 3 August 2026. It is her second drama, seven months after her first role as Hong Jang-mi, sister of Park Shin-hye's Hong Geum-bo, in Undercover Miss Hong from 17 January.
Spooky in Love, the tvN Saturday-Sunday drama that began on 18 July 2026, aired its finale on 23 August. Herald Business and Edaily reported a 7.9% national average and a 9% peak; Sports Kyunghyang called it a series high. Netflix's top 10 page listed it fourth that week.
Coupang said on 19 August 2026 that "The Affair Was Just The Beginning", starring Kim Hye-soo and Cho Yeo-jeong, had held number one among Coupang Play's popular titles for three straight weeks. Herald Business reported on 23 August that viewing was up 169 per cent since the first week.
Netflix publishes four Top 10 lists every Tuesday, ranked by views for the previous Monday to Sunday. Views are hours viewed divided by total runtime, rounded to 100,000. This guide walks through Netflix's own methodology note so you can read the weekly, country and most popular tables yourself.
TV Report reported on 17 August 2026 that tvN's Monday-Tuesday drama My Bias, My Boss reached the top three on Rakuten Viki's weekly chart in North America, Europe, Oceania and India. Xports News logged 4.2 percent for episode one and 3.1 percent for episode two.
SBS's My Royal Nemesis spent eight weeks on Netflix's global top 10 for non-English television. In Netflix's own data the first week was the peak; domestic ratings ran the other way, from 4.1 per cent at the premiere to 11.8 per cent at the finale. Each figure carries the place that published it.
The fictional Bureau for the Protection of Teaching Authority in Netflix's "Teach You a Lesson" now has a real counterpart: Gyeonggi superintendent Ahn Min-seok signed a plan for a teachers' rights protection unit on 13 July 2026, Hankook Ilbo reported.
On 7 August 2026 OhmyNews interviewed 제갈승 of Dexter Studios, the visual effects lead on Netflix's 'The East Palace', about how Ggeokmeoksali was designed. The writers traced the creature to a modern oral urban legend, and the series ranked number two in Netflix's non-English TV top 10 in July.
Netflix's The Wonderfools, starring Park Eun-bin, arrived on 15 May 2026 and started at number six on the non-English TV list for 11-17 May, then rose to number two with 7.9 million views for 18-24 May. The first week held three days, and Netflix counts views as total hours divided by runtime.
Song Kang and Lee Jun-young play rival pianists in tvN's Four Hands, Two Sonatas, premiering 29 August 2026 and streaming on Netflix. Characters, music, timing.
IU and Byeon Woo-seok's Perfect Crown ended on MBC on 16 May 2026 with a series-high 13.8% finale and became Disney+'s most-watched Korean title worldwide in its first 28 days.
Mousetrap hits Netflix on 28 August 2026: Ryu Jun-yeol and Sul Kyung-gu in a ten-episode thriller built on the folktale of the rat that ate fingernails.
Jung Hae-in and Ha Young's Netflix rom-com drew 7.5 million views in the week of 10–16 August 2026, No. 1 in 26 countries. The numbers, the premise and the title, explained.
