Every K-Drama Worth
Watching in January

Lee Han-young (Ji Sung) was once a judge people believed in. But years of compromise, ambition, and the suffocating grip of a powerful law firm turned him into something he no longer recognizes. Then, without warning, he wakes up ten years in the past — before the corruption took hold, before the deals were made, before everything went wrong.

Given this impossible second chance, Han-young makes a choice: he will use everything he knows about the future to dismantle the very system that destroyed him. A legal thriller with a time-travel twist — but what sets it apart is Ji Sung’s raw, layered performance of a man wrestling with guilt, regret, and the burning need to make things right before time runs out again.

Yoon Bom (Lee Joo-bin) is a high school teacher from Seoul — emotionally guarded, meticulously composed, and carrying a quiet kind of grief she doesn’t talk about. When a painful chapter in the city forces her to start over, she moves to the small, unhurried town of Sinsu, determined to keep to herself.

Sun Jae-gyu (Ahn Bo-hyun) is everything she didn’t expect to find there — rough-edged and unconventional on the surface, but completely devoted to raising his young nephew with a warmth that’s impossible to ignore. Two people healing from different wounds, finding their way toward each other without planning to.

Eun-ho (Kim Hye-yoon) has been a gumiho for centuries — sharp, self-sufficient, and completely uninterested in becoming human. Other foxes dreamed of it; she found the idea embarrassing. Then an unexpected accident with Kang Si-yeol (Lomon), an insufferably confident world-class soccer player, forces her hand: suddenly she’s human, and she has absolutely no idea what to do with that.

What follows is the most entertaining fish-out-of-water story of the year — a centuries-old supernatural being trying to navigate modern life, basic human emotions, and the annoying fact that the one person who makes her feel things is the exact person she’d rather forget. Kim Hye-yoon brings the same magnetic energy she had in Lovely Runner, but funnier and wilder.

Joo Ho-jin (Kim Seon-ho) is fluent in seven languages — and utterly lost when it comes to love. As a professional interpreter hired to travel the world alongside Cha Mu-hee (Go Youn-jung), one of Korea’s most famous and unpredictably intense actresses, his carefully ordered life starts unraveling in the best possible way.

Filmed across Canada, Italy, and Japan with a scope that feels genuinely cinematic, this is the Hong Sisters at their most romantic and most playful. The banter between Kim Seon-ho and Go Youn-jung is razor-sharp, the misunderstandings are delightfully earned, and the emotional beats land harder than you expect from a drama this funny.

Jang Hui-won (Oh Yeon-seo) scores perfect hundreds at work — disciplined, brilliant, and completely allergic to anything resembling romantic attachment. Kang Du-jun (Choi Jin-hyuk) is the CEO of the company where she works — charismatic, decisive, and just as committed to not getting involved. One night. One consequence. And suddenly these two people who swore off marriage are facing a very different kind of life plan.

Based on a beloved webtoon, Positively Yours takes the classic “oops, now we’re co-parenting” setup and wrings every drop of comedic and emotional potential from it. Choi Jin-hyuk and Oh Yeon-seo have an effortless push-pull dynamic that keeps you invested long after the initial premise runs its course.