Unmissable K-Dramas Coming in September 2025

Poster for ‘My Youth,’ starring Song Joong-ki (left) and Chun Woo-hee (best). Picture: JTBC, thanks to Han Cinema.

September’s K-drama lineup is looking quite terrific with its varied mix of love, thriller, criminal offense, and funny. With Korean super stars like Song Joong-ki, Park Min-young, and Jun Ji-hyun going back to the screen, along with grasping programs like Queen Mantis and Strolling on Thin Iceswoon-worthy love like My Youthand thrilling espionage dramas like Tempesthere are the unmissable K-dramas of September 2025.

My Youth

A love drama starring Song Joong-ki as Sun Woo-hae, an author and flower designer who’s discovered his delighted location after a difficult time in the past. When he run into his puppy love, Sung Je-yeon (played by Chun Woo-hee), who’s now a group leader at her workplace, they both challenge the ghosts of their past and the truths of their present, starting a journey of self-discovery– and perhaps even finding each other at the same time.

Release Date– September 5

Queen Mantis

Cha Soo-yeol’s(Jang Dong-yoon)life is made complex– his mom, Jung Yi-Shin(Go Hyun-jung ), is the notorious Mantis, a serial killer with a dark past, and he’s had a severe animosity versus her for many years as an outcome. When a brand-new murder case appears like a carbon copy of her previous criminal activities,

Self-confidence Queen

Park Min-young’s Self-confidence Queen is a Korean spin on the popular Japanese criminal activity and comedy-drama The Confidence Man JPwhich follows Dako (Masami Nagasawa ), a shrewd scam artist, and her partners, Boku-chan( Masahiro Higashide )and Richard(Fumiyo Kohinata), who target the corrupt and effective with their genius fraud strategies. In the Korean remake, Park Min-young plays Yoon Yi-rang, a fantastic trickster, along with Joo Jung-hyuk as Myeong Ku-ho, a young scam artist, and Park Hee-soon as James, a veteran bilker, scamming the corrupt for the higher good.

Tempest

An espionage love series and the resurgence K-drama of Hallyu super star Jun Ji-hyun after her last series, Jirisanin 2021, Tempest stars her as Seo Mun-ju, an accomplished diplomat with a storied past as a UN ambassador, and Baek San-ho, played by Gang Dong-won, an enigmatic global unique representative who signs up with a lethal objective to conserve Korea from a looming hazard.

Release Date– September 10

You and Everything Else

Kim Go-eun and Park Ji-hyun represent Ryu Eun-joong and Cheon Sang-yeon, 2 friends who, as they pursue their expert objectives, drift apart, however a terminal disease medical diagnosis brings them back together. The drama checks out the intricate characteristics of their relationship, checked by time, aspiration, and psychological intricacies.

Release Date– September 12

A Hundred Memories

Go Young-rye (Kim Da-mi)and Seo Jong-hee (Shin Ye-eun), 2 girls, attempt to find out life, love, and whatever in between when Han Jae-pil (Heo Nam-jun)goes into the scene and turns their lives upside down. Believe 80s fond memories, unpleasant feelings, and a great deal of melodrama.

Release Date– September 13

Shin’s Project

Mr. Shin(Han Suk-kyu)is the OG arbitrator and a community hero in this black funny. He owns a chicken dining establishment and is somebody who can fix everybody’s issues with his smooth talk and beauty. Below the surface area, he leads a secret life and has a strong sense of justice, revealing no worry in challenging the system.

Release Date– September 15

Strolling on Thin Ice

Kang Eun-Soo (Lee Young-Ae) is a desperate homemaker drowning in costs for her ailing partner. Her life’s a mess waiting to get messier as she gets overtaken Lee Kyung (Kim Young-kwang), a dubious instructor, and turns to criminal offense by offering high-stakes narcotics that she comes across while having a hard time to spend for her other half’s medications. Simply as things are getting extreme, a veteran investigator begins smelling around, and Eun-Soo’s world is turned upside down.

Release Date– September 20