Updated · August 2026

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Five K-dramas defining August 2026 — a chaebol detective’s sequel, a fangirl-turned-employee, a piano prodigy rivalry, an amnesia rom-com with a crime-syndicate twist, and a stolen-identity thriller from Netflix.

🎬 5 dramas in August 2026 0 coming soon 3 must-watch picks ⚡ Live Updated

August 2026 is a sequel-and-reunion month more than a discovery month — the lineup leans on proven chemistry rather than total unknowns. Flex x Cop returns for a second season with Ahn Bo-hyun back as its cheat-code chaebol detective, now reporting to a boss who used to make him do push-ups. Song Kang and Lee Jun-young reunite from Reborn Rookie in a completely different genre with Four Hands, Two Sonatas, trading a baseball diamond for a piano competition. My Bias, My Boss is already underway and leans straight into its fangirl-meets-CEO premise, while Our Sticky Love rounds out the lighter side with a prosecutor who wakes up with no memory and a boyfriend she doesn’t remember agreeing to. Mousetrap closes out the month on a darker note — a Netflix thriller pairing Ryu Jun-yeol and Sul Kyung-gu as a man erased from his own identity and the loan shark forced to help him get it back. Most of the lineup hasn’t aired yet, so treat those entries as anticipation, not a verdict — check back as episodes start dropping.

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01 / 01

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Four Hands, Two Sonatas
포핸즈 · 2026 · tvN / TVING
Cast: Song Kang, Lee Jun-young
MusicRomanceYouth
tvNTVING

Kang Bi-oh has spent his entire life ranked first — every competition, every recital, every measure of his future already mapped out with the kind of precision only a true prodigy can manage. Then Choi Jeong-yo walks into his elite arts high school: a pianist with real talent who walked away from music once already, for reasons the school gossip never quite gets right. Bi-oh has never had to share the top spot. He’s about to find out what that costs him.

Four Hands, Two Sonatas splits its attention three ways — Bi-oh’s rivalry with Jeong-yo, and Hong Jae-in, the viola player who’s been quietly devoted to Bi-oh’s music since before either of them understood what that meant.

Vibe → 🎹 Prodigy Rivalry🎻 Music School Ensemble🤝 Reborn Rookie Reunion🎼 Classical Conservatory

Song Kang and Lee Jun-young’s Reborn Rookie chemistry gets a total genre swap — baseball diamond to concert hall — and a classical-music setting K-drama rarely bothers with.

📅Sat & Sun · Aug 29·tvN · TVING🔴 Airing Now
Episode Progress6 / 12

The month’s most interesting swing — two leads with proven chemistry, a genre neither has tried, and a conservatory-rivalry premise with real emotional teeth underneath the competition.

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01 / 04

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My Bias, My Boss
최애의 사원 · 2026 · tvN / TVING
Cast: Kang Hoon, Kim Hye-jun
Romantic ComedyWorkplaceDrama
tvNTVINGViki

Nam Da-reum has spent over a decade being unapologetically, financially, emotionally devoted to idol Lee Chan — the kind of fan who plans her calendar around his schedule. Then she lands a job at Appello Company, the fashion startup where her bias now works as a director, and My Bias, My Boss turns the fantasy of finally being close to your idol into a workplace comedy with an inconvenient complication: her cold, quietly attentive CEO, Kang Ha-gi, starts paying attention to her first.

An overseas company retreat turns a string of small misunderstandings into a full love triangle — Ha-gi reads Da-reum’s nerves as romantic interest, Chan reads them as something closer to hostility, and Da-reum is left holding a decade of devotion to one man while something new quietly builds with the other.

Vibe → 💼 CEO Bias Alert🎤 Decade-Long Fangirl💔 Love Triangle Incoming🏢 Workplace Rom-Com

A webtoon adaptation betting its whole premise on a question K-drama rarely asks straight: what actually happens once the fan gets the job?

📅Mon & Tue · Aug 3·tvN · TVING✅ Completed
Episode Progress12 / 12

Kim Hye-jun and Kang Hoon are a promising enough pairing that this could out-charm its own gimmick — worth circling if you like your rom-coms with a workplace hierarchy attached.

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CompletedMust-Watch

02 / 04

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Flex x Cop (Season 2)
재벌X형사2 · 2026 · SBS / Disney+
Cast: Ahn Bo-hyun, Jung Eun-chae
ActionMysteryComedy
SBSDisney+Wavve

Two years after Jin I-soo talked his way out of a chairman’s office and into a police uniform, SBS is putting him back to work — this time under a boss who once made him do push-ups until he cried. Joo Hye-ra, the academy’s most feared instructor, is now his team leader at Violent Crimes Unit 1, and Flex x Cop Season 2 wastes no time turning that history into the season’s central joke and its central tension.

The setup keeps what worked the first time around — I-soo’s family fortune doubling as a walking cheat code, the case-of-the-week mechanics — while adding a genuinely loaded new dynamic at the top with Jung Eun-chae’s decorated, no-nonsense team leader.

Vibe → 💰 Cheat-Code Detective🤝 Rival Turned Boss😂 Buddy Cop Comedy🎬 Sequel Season

Season 1 already proved the wealthy-detective premise works — the new chain-of-command dynamic with Jung Eun-chae is what could push Season 2 past it.

📅Fri & Sat · Aug 7·SBS · Disney+✅ Completed
Episode Progress14 / 14

A two-year wait and an 11%-rated first season make this the safest bet of the month — Ahn Bo-hyun clearly still enjoys playing I-soo, and that’s most of the battle.

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Completed

03 / 04

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Our Sticky Love
이런 엿같은 사랑 · 2026 · Netflix
Cast: Jung Hae-in, Ha Young
RomanceComedy
Netflix

Go Eun-sae is a rising prosecutor with a case against a dangerous crime syndicate — until an accident wipes her memory clean and drops her in a small town with no idea who she is. The first face she sees belongs to Jang Tae-ha, a boxing coach who calmly informs her that she’s his girlfriend. She has no reason to believe him. She also has no reason not to.

What Tae-ha isn’t telling her: he’s a former gang member with his own tangled history with the syndicate she was investigating, and the relationship he’s claiming might be built on more convenient fiction than either of them wants to admit.

Vibe → 🥊 Boxing Coach Romance🕵️ Amnesia Mystery🏘️ Small-Town Comedy🎭 Secret Identity

Jung Hae-in trades Snowdrop’s Cold War tragedy for small-town rom-com warmth — with a crime-syndicate mystery layered underneath to keep the stakes real.

📅Fri · Aug 7 (all episodes)·Netflix✅ Completed
Episode Progress12 / 12

The amnesia hook is familiar, but pairing it with Jung Hae-in stretching into comedy and a genuine crime-syndicate mystery gives it more to run on than the premise alone suggests.

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CompletedMust-Watch

04 / 04

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Mousetrap
들쥐 · 2026 · Netflix
Cast: Ryu Jun-yeol, Sul Kyung-gu
ThrillerMysteryCrime
Netflix

Je Moon-jae has spent years disappearing into his own fiction as a reclusive novelist — until a mysterious figure known only as The Rat steals his name, his fortune, and every trace of proof that he exists. Mousetrap turns that identity theft into a hunt, pairing him with No-ja, the loan shark who’s spent years chasing Moon-jae’s debt and now has every reason to help him get his life back instead.

Ryu Jun-yeol and Sul Kyung-gu lead this Netflix thriller as a reluctant duo forced into an uneasy alliance — one man erased from his own identity, the other whose entire job is finding people who don’t want to be found.

Vibe → 🐀 Identity Stolen💰 Loan Shark Ally🕵️ Mistaken Identity Chase📖 Webtoon Origins

A stolen-identity thriller built on real dread — what happens when the system simply stops recognizing you as yourself — anchored by two leads rarely paired together before.

📅Fri · Aug 28 (all episodes)·Netflix✅ Completed
Episode Progress10 / 10

Ryu Jun-yeol playing someone stripped of agency is a real swing against his usual charismatic-lead type, and pairing him with Sul Kyung-gu’s world-weary loan shark gives this Netflix thriller a genuine odd-couple engine worth watching unfold.

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📅 Weekly Airing Schedule

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📸 Screenshot this — your cheat sheet for the week!

Date / Day Drama Progress Watch On Status
Mon & Tue · Aug 3 My Bias, My Boss 12 / 12 tvN TVING Completed
Fri & Sat · Aug 7 Flex x Cop (Season 2) 14 / 14 SBS Disney+ Completed
Fri · Aug 7 Our Sticky Love 12 / 12 Netflix Completed
Fri · Aug 28 Mousetrap 10 / 10 Netflix Completed
Sat & Sun · Aug 29 Four Hands, Two Sonatas 6 / 12 tvN TVING Airing Now

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