The Glory Part Two, Sweet Home Second Season + All the Prime K-Content Coming to Netflix in 2023

(SPOT.ph) There's always something for you at Netflix. No matter what you're in the mood for, they have it. Anime? Take your pick. Crime documentaries? Got you. Korean dramas and movies? Oh, there's a ton. Heck, chances are you've been binge-watching every single Korean content release, hooked on every storyline. No judgment. Netflix's Korean titles are almost always on the Top 10 list, and for good reason. From romantic comedies, thrillers, fantasy, horror, and action. Name it. They're full of it—with more coming in 2023.

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“The global popularity of K-content has continued apace over 2022, with Netflix bringing a wider variety of stories and genres to fans around the world. Over the last year, Korean series and films have regularly featured in our Global Top 10 list in more than 90 countries, and three of Netflix’s most-watched shows ever are from Korea," said Don Kang, VP of Content (Korea).

"This year, we’re pushing the envelope even further with the stories we tell and how we tell them. With this lineup of Korean titles, Netflix will continue to be the ultimate destination for compelling, diverse and must-watch Korean storytelling."

Here is Netflix's Korean slate for 2023:

Comebacks, more romance for K-Dramas

So you've just finished watching the first part—eight episodes, all in one sitting—of The Glory, which aired on December 30, and Netflix isn't making you wait longer for the second one. Dropping on March 10, viewers will pick up on Song Hye Kyo's vengeance on her former classmates who abused her in high school. Another returning fan-favorite, after almost three years, is the apocalyptic horror webtoon-turned-series Sweet Home which stars Song Kang, to be released in the fourth quarter of the year with new and exciting (say, horrifying, perhaps?) characters coming into play.

You'll be seeing more of Kim Woo Bin in dystopian series Black Knight, which follows "5-8," a legendary deliveryman as he cross paths with a refugee who "dreams of following in his footsteps." 

There's also Park Seo Jun (Itaewon Class, What's Wrong With Secretary Kim) and Han So Hee's (Nevertheless, My Name) whose chemistry we'll see for the first time in thriller series Gyeongsong Creature. The two will be starring as Jang Tae Sang and Yoon Chae Ok—two young people "struggling to survive as they face a monster born out of human greed." Gyeongsong Creature is expected to drop in the fourth quarter.

Loved Ahn Hyo Seop in A Business Proposal? You can watch him again, this time playing as two different people in two different periods in time in a time-slip romance series A Time Called You where he plays as Jun Hee's (played by Vincenzo's Jeon Yeo Been) late boyfriend Gu Yeon Jun and his look-alike in 1998 Nam Si Heon. This is a remake of the classic Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day, which follows a heartbroken woman, whose boyfriend passed away, as she goes back in 1998 and meets someone who looks identical to her late boyfriend. The South Korean adaptation will be released in the third quarter of this year.

If you missed seeing the South Korea's "First Love" Bae Suzy on the small screen, you'd be glad to know that she'll be starring in yet another webtoon-turned-romance series titled Doona!, where she will play as a former K-Pop idol who will create a budding romance with ordinary university student Won Joon (played by Yang Se Jong). Doona! will be directed by Crash Landing on You and Romance is a Bonus Book director Lee Jung Hyo and will air on the fourth quarter.

Speaking of romance series, they'll rain and it'll flood (with tears? that we're not sure) in 2023. There will be See You In My 19th Life with Shin Hye Sun and Ahn Bo Hyun; Destined With You with Ro Woon and Cho Bo Ah; King the Land helmed by Yoon A and Lee Jun Ho; Crash Course in Romance (if you need it) with Jeon Do Yeon and Jung Kyung Ho.

Down to the heartfelt ones we have Park Bo Young as she plays a nurse in a mental health department of a hospital that will soon follow and explore the "stories of the people in it" in Daily Dose of Sunshine. Director Lee JQ, who is also behind the K-zombie sensation All of Us Are Dead helms the series to be released in the fourth quarter. There's also Lee Do Hyun starring in The Good Bad Mother.

Action-packed and thrilling K-Movies

For some of us, losing a phone means losing everything. Such is the case for Na Mi (played by Chun Woo Hee), whose "entire life upended after losing her phone containing her personal information" in real-crime thriller film Unlocked. Chun will be joined by Yim Si Wan, whose character Jun Yeong stumbles upon a lost phone. The film is set to release on February 17. Also in the first quarter of the year is action series Kill Boksoon, starring Jeon Do Yeon who is both a mother and a professional killer who refuses to complete an assigned mission.

It'll be an intense match, but of abstract strategy board game called Go between Lee Byung Hun and Yoo Ah In in The Match where they will play as teacher and student, and also legendary rivals Cho Hoon Hyun and Lee Chang Ho.

Train to Busan, Peninsula, and Hellbound director Yeon Sang Ho is coming back with a unique film combining dystopia, cloning, and technology in JUNG_E starring Kang Soo Youn, Kim Hyun Joo, and Ryu Kung Soo. The film is set in the 22nd century, where the earth is no longer inhabitable due to climate change.

Reality and Variety Shows

Survival shows, you say? Look out for two of them in the coming weeks and months. On January 24 is Physical:100, which hosts 100 men and women participants with amazing physique compete against one another to determine the person with the best physique. It is described to be "an entirely new type of survival entertainment show." Siren: Survive the Island, on the other hand, is a combat survival entertainment show that will see 24 women divided into six teams. They will then undergo missions that "put their limitations to the test." It will air in the second quarter of the year.

19/20 (Nineteen to Twenty) is exactly what its title suggest—a reality series that shows young men and women in their transition from the age 19 to 20. Those in the same age can pick up a thing or two about #adulting and being independent. It'll be hosted by Kyuhyun, Kim Ji Eun, and AKMU's Lee Su Hyun to be aired on Q3.

Zombieverse will take zombie apocalypse series to the next level. In this show, participants will try to survive in a zombie-filled Seoul. How do you think you'd do in such setting? The art team of All of Us Are Dead and the zombie action choreographer of Kingdom are said to join forces in this reality series, so you know it's going to be the real deal. Or, well, as close to it as possible.

If you loved mind-boggling survival games like Squid Game or Alice in Borderland then you'd definitely like Devil's Plan. Celebrities, influencers, and recruits are in for a hellish ride filled with mystery, games, and shocking twists. They can bring home up to 500 million Korean won if they win, though. Will you be up for the devil's challenge?