New K-Drama Releases

This week (March 16-22) is shaping up to be a massive one for K-drama enthusiasts. The mid-March 2026 lineup is incredibly diverse, offering everything from high-stakes political noirs to heartwarming family rom-coms.

The biggest headline of the week is undoubtedly Ju Ji Hoon’s highly anticipated return to the small screen in the gritty survival thriller Climax. But the heavy hitters don’t stop there. We are also getting new episodes of the buzzy romantic thriller Siren’s Kiss starring Park Min Young, and Yoo Yeon Seok’s supernatural comeback in Phantom Lawyer.

Whether you stream on Netflix, Viki, Disney+, or Amazon Prime, here is your complete, authoritative guide to the 12 new Korean dramas dropping episodes this week.

The Big Premieres & Heavy Hitters

1. Climax

• Platform: Viki

• Release Date: March 16

• What it’s about: This ruthless political survival noir centers on a power-hungry power couple—a newly famous prosecutor (Ju Ji Hoon) and a washed-up A-list actress (Ha Ji Won). When they become entangled with a massive cartel linking the entertainment underworld to high-level politicians, they prove they will stop at nothing to climb South Korea’s power ladder, even if it means betraying each other.

2. Siren’s Kiss

• Platform: Amazon Prime Video

• Release Date: Episodes 5 & 6 (March 16-17)

• What it’s about: Park Min Young and Wi Ha Joon team up for the first time in this dangerously seductive thriller. It follows an ace insurance fraud investigator who begins playing a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with a flawless auctioneer suspected of murder. As he digs into her hidden secrets, he finds himself falling under her spell—blurring the lines between justice and fatal attraction.

3. Phantom Lawyer

• Platform: Netflix, Viki

• Release Date: Episodes 3 & 4 (March 20-21)

• What it’s about: Yoo Yeon Seok returns in this supernatural legal drama as a late-blooming attorney who accidentally rents a former shaman’s home and begins seeing ghosts. When these spirits become his clients (and occasionally possess him), chaos ensues. He is forced to team up with a highly rational, elite lawyer (Esom) who boasts a 100% win rate, creating a brilliant clash of ideologies.

Romance & Coming-of-Age

4. In Your Radiant Season

• Platform: Disney+

• Release Date: Episodes 8 & 9 (March 20-21)

• What it’s about: A tender, visually beautiful romance starring Lee Sung Kyung and Chae Jong Hyeop. After a freak accident leaves a cheerful animator without his memory and hearing, he finds unexpected salvation in a cold, guarded designer. Together, they navigate their trauma and complicated pasts to heal each other.

5. Still Shining

• Platform: Netflix

• Release Date: Episodes 5 & 6 (March 20)

• What it’s about: Starring Park Jinyoung and Kim Min Ju, this coming-of-age drama explores second chances. A subway engineer and a hotelier, who were each other’s first loves at 19, reunite a decade later in Seoul. Now navigating the complexities of adulthood, they must confront their past heartbreak to see if their romance can survive the present.

6. The Practical Guide to Love

• Platform: Viki

• Release Date: Episodes 7 & 8 (March 21-22)

• What it’s about: Han Ji Min stars as a single hotel manager navigating the exhausting modern dating world. She finds herself in a delightful love triangle, torn between two men with wildly different charms: a principled, structured CEO and a free-spirited theatre actor.

7. Recipe for Love

• Platform: KBS

• Release Date: Episodes 15 & 16 (March 21-22)

• What it’s about: A modern Romeo and Juliet story. Two childhood friends reunite as adults and slowly fall in love, but there’s a massive catch: their families have been locked in a bitter, three-decade-long rivalry. It’s a heartwarming journey of healing generational trauma through romance.

Daily Dramas & Makjang Thrillers

8. Marie and Her Three Daddies

• Platform: KBS

• Release Date: Episodes 111-115 (Daily drops March 16-20)

• What it’s about: A wonderfully chaotic family rom-com. A young doctor finds herself at the center of a paternity scandal when three very different men step forward claiming to be her biological father. With a troublesome mother and a supportive younger colleague by her side, she sets out to uncover the truth about her lineage.

9. First Man

• Platform: MBC

• Release Date: Episodes 63-67 (Daily drops March 16-20)

• What it’s about: If you love classic K-drama melodrama, this is for you. Twin sisters separated at birth by an evil stepmother live wildly different lives—one is a spoiled chaebol heiress, the other an independent aspiring restaurateur. When the stepmother’s dirty secrets come to light, the scorned sisters orchestrate the ultimate revenge.

10. Pearl in Red

• Platform: KBS

• Release Date: Episodes 13-17 (Daily drops March 16-20)

• What it’s about: A gripping corporate revenge thriller. Two women whose lives were destroyed by the ruthless Adele chaebol family form a dangerous alliance. They orchestrate a hostile takeover to infiltrate the company and expose the family’s buried sins.

Dark Comedy & Medical Thrillers

11. Mad Concrete Dreams

• Platform: Viki

• Release Date: Episodes 3 & 4 (March 21-22)

• What it’s about: Ha Jung Woo makes his drama comeback in this black comedy crime thriller. A desperate, debt-ridden landlord gets involved in a staged kidnapping to save his property and family. Unsurprisingly, the plan spirals completely out of control, turning into a very real, very dangerous legal nightmare.

12. Doctor Shin

• Platform: TV Chosun

• Release Date: Episodes 3 & 4 (March 21-22)

• What it’s about: A dark, medical melodrama pushing ethical boundaries. When a brilliant neurosurgeon’s A-list actress fiancée falls into a coma after a tragic accident, his grief turns into a dangerous obsession. He decides to perform a forbidden, experimental brain-switch procedure to bring her back.