K-drama fans, get ready — May 2025 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting months in recent memory, with a rich lineup of new dramas across all genres. From high-stakes mysteries to charming romantic comedies, here are 11 new K-dramas premiering in May that you won’t want to miss.
1. Spring of Youth (사계의 봄)
- Premiere Date: May 6, 2025
- Broadcast: SBS (Wed 10:40 PM KST), Viki
- Cast: Ha Yoo-joon, Park Ji-hu, Lee Seung-hyub
- Plot: The series tells about a K-pop singer, Sa-gye, who is forced to attend a university campus. Forming a four-member co-ed band, he finds passionate love and music.
2. Tastefully Yours (당신의 맛)
- Premiere Date: May 12, 2025
- Broadcast: ENA (Mon–Tue 10:00 PM KST), Netflix
- Cast: Kang Ha-neul, Go Min-si, Kim Shin-rok
- Plot: Tastefully Yours is a kitchen romance that is like a war between Han Beom-woo, the successor to a large food company who runs the best fine dining restaurant in Seoul but has no interest in ‘taste’, and Mo Yeon-joo, a chef crazy about ‘taste’ who runs a one-table restaurant without a sign in a remote corner of the countryside. They grow together and fall in love while running a small restaurant in the city of Miraek, Jeonju.
3. Second Shot at Love (금주를 부탁해)
- Premiere Date: May 12, 2025
- Broadcast: tvN (Mon–Tue 8:50 PM KST)
- Cast: Choi Soo-young, Gong Myung, Jo Yoon-hee, Kang Hyung-seok
- Plot: Han Geum-joo is a skilled car mechanic with ten years of experience. She views herself as a “reasonable drinker” and values interacting with others. Nevertheless, she chooses to stop drinking after being classified as an alcoholic. Her life becomes more complicated when she meets up with her first love, Eui-joon, who left his position as a medical specialist in Seoul to become the director of Bocheon Health Center.
4. Shark: The Storm (샤크: 더 스톰)
- Premiere Date: May 15, 2025
- Broadcast: TVING (Thursdays)
- Cast: Kim Min-seok, Lee Hyun-wook, Bae Myung-jin
- Plot: The story of a bully who goes from being a criminal to a world mixed martial arts champion after gouging out the eye of the bully who tormented him for three years. The series will show Cha U Sol’s life after his release from prison.
5. Dear Hongrang (탄금)
- Premiere Date: May 16, 2025
- Broadcast: Netflix
- Cast: Lee Jae-wook, Jo Bo-ah, Jung Ga-ram
- **Plot: **Seo Hongrang returns to his noble family after disappearing for a decade—but his memory loss raises suspicions. With two women pulling him in different directions—one claiming to love him, the other fearing him—Hongrang must rediscover who he truly is.
6. Nine Puzzles (나인 퍼즐)
- Premiere Date: May 21, 2025
- Broadcast: Disney+
- Cast: Kim Da-mi, Son Suk-ku, Kim Sung-kyun
- Plot: Yoon I-na, a genius profiler, and Han Saem, a rational detective, clash as they chase a cold-blooded killer. Each clue ties back to I-na’s traumatic childhood—where her sister was murdered in a similar fashion.
7. Director Maeng’s Malicious Commenter (맹감독의 악플러)
- Premiere Date: May 23, 2025
- Broadcast: MBC
- Cast: Park Sung Woong, Park Sang Hyun
- Plot: Maeng Gong is the coach of the professional basketball team ‘Big Pandas’, which has been on the verge of elimination from the playoffs for three consecutive years. Due to poor performance, he is in danger of being fired. When he was young, he was a star player who attacked boldly on the court, as his name suggests, but now he is more famous as the ‘Young Gong Dae’ coaching a professional basketball team.
Ko Hwa Jin, a dedicated hater of Maeng Gong, works under the nickname ‘Maeng Gong Extermination Group’. He is a high school student who knows how to analyze the game in seconds. He is a character who has become a malicious commenter, full of hostility and a desire to get revenge on Maeng Gong.
With his job on the line, Maeng Gong decides to work with his malicious commenter to achieve team results.
8. Our Unwritten Seoul (미지의 서울)
- Premiere Date: May 24, 2025
- Broadcast: tvN (Sat–Sun 9:20 PM KST), Netflix
- Cast: Park Bo-young, Jinyoung, Ryu Kyung-soo
- Plot: The story of the twin sisters who look alike but are different in personalities, who swap their lives for some reason and lead entirely different lives through a lie.
9. ONE: High School Heroes
- Premiere Date: May 30, 2025
- Broadcast: Wavve
- Cast: Lee Jung-ha, Kim Do-wan
- Plot: A school action drama that depicts the story of a model student who once dedicated all his attention to studying but finds himself entangled in domestic violence and school bullying, compelling him to make a transformative decision. “High School Heroes” pertains to a group formed by the main characters who stand up against school violence perpetrators on behalf of the victims.
10. Oh My Ghost Clients (노무사 노무진)
- Premiere Date: May 30, 2025
- Broadcast: MBC (Fri–Sat 9:50 PM KST)
- Cast: Jung Kyung-ho, Seol In-ah, Cha Hak-yeon
- **Plot: **Lawyer Noh Moo-jin gains the ability to see ghosts after a near-death experience. With each spectral client, he solves bizarre legal cases involving unfinished business, assisted by his quirky assistant and skeptical brother-in-law.
11. Good Boy (굿보이)
- Premiere Date: May 31, 2025
- Broadcast: JTBC (Sat–Sun 10:40 PM KST), Netflix, TVING, Disney+, Prime Video
- Cast: Park Bo-gum, Kim So-hyun, Oh Jung-se, Lee Sang-yi
- Plot: Good Boy is a comic action drama that follows a group of young athletes who become police officers through a special recruitment program. Trading medals for badges, they use their Olympic-level skills to take on corrupt systems and deliver justice with agility and teamwork.
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