Add these New K-dramas to Your January Watch List
Haven’t made your January 2024 watch list yet? Here, we have a handful of amazing dramas! Schedule your time chart to avoid missing your favourite show on time.
1. Marry My Husband
‘Marry My Husband’ is an ongoing K-drama starring Park Min-young, Na In-woo, Lee Yi-kyung, and Song Ha-yoon. The drama premiered on 1 January at 8:50 p.m. (KST) on Monday and Tuesday. International fans can watch the show on Prime Video.
The fantasy K-drama tells the story of the vengeance of a married woman. Kang Ji-won (Park Min-young) is the young wife of Park Min-hwan (Lee Yi-kyung). The life of the couple is not very happy, like how it is seamed from the outside. Kang Ji-won, as a wife, struggles through numerous things, including negligence from her husband and his family members. Also, as an overload to her burden, she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The day she finds out about the illicit relationship between her husband and her best friend marks the end of her life as his wife. The argument she picks up with her husband in front of her friend results in her accidental death at the hands of her husband. After her death, she opens her eyes like she was asleep, only to find that she has travelled 10 years back. Living her younger life once again, she plans her future and unites the illicit couple to take revenge.
2. Flex X Cop
‘Flex X Cop’ starring Ahn Bo-hyun and Park Ji-hyun will be released on 26 January 2024. The other supporting roles will be handled by Kang Sang-jun, Kim Byung-chun, Kim Shin-bi, Lee Do-yeop, and Ahn Byung-sik. The drama will be streamed on Friday and Saturday at 22:00 (KST), the time that ‘My Demon’ occupied.
Jin Yi-soo (Ahn Bo-hyun) is a handsome and intelligent detective in the extremely violent crime department, which runs after notorious criminals. No matter how complicated the case is, the fun-loving Yi-soo always keeps his nerves calm. He is the third-generation member of a prestigious family. To solve his cases, he uses his wealth and power.
Yi-soo meets Lee Kang-hyun (Park Ji-hyun), a successful and dedicated detective who does not give much importance to him.
‘Flex X Cop’ is a SBS television series with 16 episodes. The K-drama is also named ‘Gold Spoon’, ‘Goldeuseupun’, ‘Chaebol X Detective’, ‘ChaebolXHyeongsa’, and ‘FlexxCop’.
3. Doctor Slump
‘Doctor Slump’, featuring Park Shin-hye and Park Hyung-sik in lead roles. The drama, directed by Oh Hyun-jong and written by Baek Sun-woo, will have 16 episodes. The drama will be available from 27 January on jTBC and NETFLIX on Saturday and Sunday at 22:30 (KST). Each episode of the drama will be 45 minutes long.
The story is centred on the life and romantic relationship of Yeo Jeong-woo (Park Hyung-sik) and Nam Ha-neul (Park Shin-hye). Yeo Jeong-woo was a disciplined student during his college days who topped every exam. After completing his studies, he starts practicing his profession as a plastic surgeon and earns respect. However, an unexpected medical accident turns his life upside down.
At his worst, he meets his former rival, Ha Neul. She is an anesthesiologist by profession. She reached her goal of becoming a doctor by dedicating most of her time to studying. After growing up, she starts to feel empty from inside. In the race to establish her life, she forgot to enjoy her life as a young girl. It is at this point that Jeong-woo appears in her life. They find comfort in each other’s presence and later fell in love.
The producers of the drama, SLL and HighZium Studio, confirmed the appearance of the artists Park Hyung-sik, Yoon Park, Park Shin-hye, and Kong Seong-ha on 14 March 2023.
4. Gyeonseong Creature
NETFLIX is coming up with the second part of the popular television series ‘Gyeonseong Creature’. Recently, NETFLIX dropped the teaser for ‘Gyeonseong Creature’ confirming the coming of its second season.
The first season of ‘Gyeonseong Creature’ contains two parts. The first part of the drama, containing 7 episodes, was streamed on 22 December 2023 and the second part, containing 3 episodes, was streamed on 5 January 2024.
The first season of the drama took its viewers to 1945, the Gyeonseong period, and the story revolves around the mysterious hospital where people go missing. Tae-sang (Park Seo-joon) and Yoon Chae-ok (Han So-hee), who search for the missing people due to personal reasons, fight with monsters that are born from human greed.
Unlike the first season, the second season will tell the story of what happens in the current era. Stills of the drama show Park Seo-joon and Han So-hee in modern dresses. In the still, Park Seo-joon is surrounded by antique pieces in a room, proving the drama is happening in the current era.
5. Queen of Divorce
‘Queen of Divorce’ is an upcoming television series that will release on 31 January 2024. Park Jin-Seok is the director of the drama starring Lee Ji-ah and Kang Ki-young. Jeong Hee-seon prepared the script for the drama, which is produced by How Pictures, Drama House Studio, and SLL. The drama is expected to have 12 episodes.
‘Queen of Divorce’ is a JTBS drama and will be streamed at 8:50 p.m. (KST). The international platform where it will be released has not yet been revealed.
Kim Sa-ra (Lee Ji-Ah), the divorcee advocate, helps her clients start a new life without their troubling partner. Sa-Ra herself is a victim of an unhappy married life. She was married to the reputed family of South Korea’s leading law firm. She becomes a nobody when her husband betrays her.
She walks out of her married life and, through hard work, rises to fame as a divorce specialist by establishing her own company with the name Solutions. In her journey, she works with Dong Ki-joon (Kang Ki-young) to save the innocents from the clutches of their bad spouses. Ki-joon is a smart and intelligent advisory lawyer. He becomes Sa-ra’s business partner after resigning from his position as a prosecutor.
