What A Shop for Killers Season 2 Did in Four Weeks
Disney+'s A Shop for Killers Season 2 opened with two episodes on 22 July 2026 and added two every Wednesday for four weeks. On its first day it was the most-watched Korean original on Disney+ worldwide, and a day before it ended it held first place for buzz at home for a second week.
What happened
Disney+’s A Shop for Killers Season 2 opened with episodes 1 and 2 on 22 July 2026. Ilgan Sports reported on 25 July, citing the Walt Disney Company Korea, that by views on its first day the season was the most-watched Korean original series on Disney+ worldwide. The eight episodes went up two a week on Wednesdays and finished with episodes 7 and 8 at 4 p.m. KST on 12 August.
Why is it trending?
The eight episodes were not released at once. Etoday reported that the season opened with episodes 1 and 2 and then added two every Wednesday, which put the remaining pairs on 29 July, 5 August and 12 August. While the episodes were spread over four weeks, the domestic buzz count reached the top the day before the finale. Sports Kyunghyang reported on 11 August that Good Data Corporation’s FUNdex for the second week of August placed the series first in the combined TV and streaming drama category, a second consecutive week at the top.
What you need to know
- In the same report Sports Kyunghyang cited FlixPatrol for seven straight days inside both the Disney+ TV show top 10 and the all-content top 10 in four countries as of 11 August: South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Turkey.
- Etoday describes the story as Ji-an, played by Kim Hye-jun and now the head of the storefront Murthehelp, striking back at the global mercenary network Babylon with her uncle Jeong Jin-man, played by Lee Dong-wook and believed dead. The same report says three of the first season’s cast returned and three new characters joined; AsiaOne spells the seven names beside the two leads Jo Han-sun, Geum Han-nah, Lee Tae-young, Kim Min, Hyunri, Masaki Okada and Jung Yun-ha.
- The South China Morning Post reported on 23 July 2026 that Lee Kwon directed the season and wrote it with Ji Ho-jin, from a novel by Kang Ji-young.
- Ilgan Sports noted that the first season, released in 2024, was named among The New York Times’s best international TV shows of 2024 and Time’s four best Korean dramas of that year. The same report said the first season was broadcast on MBC from 3 July 2026.
Profiles
Dramas
A Shop for Killers Season 2킬러들의 쇼핑몰 시즌2
A Shop for Killers Season 2 is an eight-episode Disney+ series released from 22 July to 12 August 2026, in which Ji-an, the new head of the storefront Murthehelp, fights the network Babylon beside the uncle believed dead. It was the most-watched Korean original on Disney+ worldwide on its opening day.
- Network
- Disney+
- Status
- Completed
- First aired
- 22 July 2026
- Episodes
- 8
- Genres
- Action, Thriller
- Streaming on
- Disney+ (official title page)
Actors
Lee Dong-wook이동욱
Lee Dong-wook is an actor signed to KINGKONG by STARSHIP. His credits run through tvN's 구미호뎐 and 배드 앤 크레이지 and JTBC's 착한 사나이, and in 2024 he played Jeong Jin-man in Disney+'s A Shop for Killers, returning to the role for the second season in 2026.
- Agency
- KINGKONG by STARSHIP
- Known for
- A Shop for Killers Season 2
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