Happy Seollal to everyone when we are stepping into February. 1st February is the Korean Lunar New Year (also the Chinese Lunar New Year) where we mark it as the first day of a new year.
Here is the list of K-dramas rolling out this month!
A Business Proposal
No. of episodes: 16
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Native Title: 사내 맞선
Original network: Netflix
Premiere: 28 Feb 2022
Starring Ahn Hyo Seop, Kim Se Jeong, Seol In Ah, Kim Min Kyu, and more. Adapted from a web novel by Hae Hwa, The Office Blind Date.
Everything started from one blind date. Shin Ha Ri is a single woman with a normal office job, she helped her chaebol friend Jin Young Seo to attend a blind date which turns out to be Kang Tae Mu.
On the other hand, Kang Tae Mu is a third-generation chaebol, a CEO of a company founded by his grandfather. The elder keeps setting up blind dates for him and he made up his mind to marry the next girl he meets, just so he won’t be disturbed again. He met Shin Ha Ri who stands in for Jin Young Seo.
Forecasting Love and Weather
No. of episodes: 16
Genre: Melodrama, Romance
Native title: 기상청 사람들: 사내연애 잔혹사 편
Original network: JTBC, Netflix
Premiere: 12 Feb 2022
Starring Park Min Young, Song Kang, Yoon Park, Yura, and more.
The drama is set in Korea’s National Weather Forecast Service, Korea Meteorological Administration, and the people who work there.
Twenty-Five Twenty-One
No. of episodes: 16
Genre: Romance, Historical
Native title: 스물다섯 스물하나
Original network: tvN, Netflix
Premiere: 12 Feb 2022
Starring Nam Joo Hyuk, Kim Tae Ri, Bona, and more.
The drama sets in 1998 where two youngsters trying to figure out what to do in their life and how to work towards their dreams. Due to a financial crisis, the fencing team that Na Hee Do is in was disbanded. However, her aim is to join the saber fencing national team. The same financial crisis impacted Baek Yi Jin the most, his father’s business was announced bankrupt and life has a 180-degree change.
Thirty-Nine
No. of episodes: 12
Genre: Life, Friendship
Native title: 서른, 아홉
Original network: JTBC, Netflix
Premiere: 16 Feb 2022
Starring Son Ye Jin, Jeon Mi Do, Kim Ji Hyun, and more. The drama is about three close friends who met in high school now turning 40 soon. Their every day life and stories are so different yet similar.
I Havent’s Done My Best Yet
No. of episodes: 16
Genre: Comedy
Native title:
Original network: tvN
Premiere: 18 Feb 2022
Starring Park Hae Joon, Kim Do Wan, and more. A Japanese adaptation of the same drama. Revolving around a man in his 40s, Nam Geum Pil lives with his father and daughter, decided to quit his job randomly. Receives criticism from others yet he did not bother and proceed to the route of a comic writer.
Kill Heel
No. of episodes: 16
Genre: Business
Native title: 킬힐
Original network: tvN
Premiere: 23 Feb 2022
Starring Kim Ha Neul, Lee Hye Young, Kim Sung Ryung, and more.
The drama is about the competitive industry and the struggles of being a TV Home shopping host. Woo Hyun is a host is a neither here nor there home shopping host, she inspires climb to the top yet fell into a bottomless pit.
Juvenile Justice
No. of episodes: 10
Genre: Legal
Native title: 소년 심판
Original network: Netflix
Premiere: 25 Feb 2022
Starring Kim Hye Soo, Kim Mu Yeol, Lee Sung Min and more. The drama revolves around a prickly yet elite judge Sim Eun Seok who hates juvenile offenders. She was assigned to a local juvenile court and decided to use her way to punish them.
Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) 3
No. of episodes: 16
Genre: Family, Life, Romance
Native title: 결혼작사 이혼작곡3
Original network: TV Chosun
Premiere: 26 Feb 2022
The third installment of Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) starring Kang Shin Hyo, Lee Ga Ryeong, Ji Young San, Park Joo Mi and many more. The drama is about 3 women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who are going through similar yet different life-changing events when they found out their husbands are having an affair.
Military Prosecutor Do Bae Man
No. of episodes: 16
Genre: Military, Legal, Investigation
Native title:군검사 도베르만
Original network: tvN
Premiere: 28 Feb 2022
Starring Ahn Bo Hyun, Jo Bo Ah, Kim Young Min, and more.
The drama is based on two military prosecutors who join the industry for two very different reasons. Do Bae Man chose to work as a military prosecutor for money and success, not about the mission and fighting crimes. Cha Woo In is very different from him, she is born with a silver spoon yet she chose to be a military prosecutor for revenge. Both of them will be working side by side to fight evil.
Semantic Error
No. of episodes: 8
Genre: Web Drama, BL, Romance
Native title: 시맨틱 에러
Premiere: 16 Feb 2022
Starring Park Seo Ham and Park Jae Chan. Adapted from a web novel by Jeo Soo Ri. The drama is about two college students, Jang Jae Young and Cho Sang Woo.