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Six K-dramas defining September 2026 — two movie stars reuniting nine years later, a lottery winner who won’t quit his day job, a decade-long couple drifting apart, a Joseon-era seduction wager, a twin body-swap time-slip rom-com, and a dueling-mothers KBS1 daily melodrama.
September 2026 leans hard into premium, starry swings alongside two wildcard genre bets — six titles in total, each betting on a specific hook instead of broad appeal. Made in Korea Season 2 reunites Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung nine years after the first season’s power play, now with a family fracture added to the mix, while The Ordinary Jackpot flips the workplace-fantasy formula by having its lottery-winning lead stay at his desk instead of walking away — both are already airing. Still ahead: A Love Other Than Yours slows things down with Seo Kang-joon and Ahn Eun-jin playing a decade-long couple drifting apart with no villain in sight, The Scandal pairs Son Ye-jin and Ji Chang-wook in a Joseon-era remake of Untold Scandal’s Dangerous Liaisons-style seduction game, Dive into You stacks a twin body-swap comedy on top of a camcorder time-slip rescue plot, and Mission: Mompossible opens KBS1’s next 120-episode daily melodrama with a dueling-mothers premise sharp enough to stand out from the format. Treat anything not yet airing as anticipation, not a verdict — check back as episodes start dropping.
🟢 Ongoing Weekly Dramas
3 dramas · still airing
Still airing — new episodes dropping weekly.
01 / 03
Namgung Ho and Lee Mi-do have been together ten years, long enough that marriage looks like a formality left to schedule — until new people arrive in both of their lives at exactly the wrong moment.
Neither one goes looking for it, and neither is playing the villain — A Love Other Than Yours treats a decade-long relationship’s quiet uncertainty as the whole story, not a twist.
A decade-long couple treated as genuinely, mutually uncertain — no villain, no betrayal, just two people quietly drifting.
Seo Kang-joon and Ahn Eun-jin bring a decade of shared history that reads as lived-in rather than convenient — the kind of realistic melodrama KBS2’s weekend slot does well.
02 / 03
Yoon Ha-na (Bona) is a top actress still hung up on her first love: Jung Woo-jae (Park Seo-ham), a former judo prodigy who quit the sport and now works, wordlessly, as her bodyguard. After an accident swaps her soul with her twin brother Ha-ru’s, the two discover an old camcorder that can send them back to 2010 — to the moment that seems to explain everything that went wrong for Woo-jae.
Dive into You bets on volume: body-swap sibling comedy, a time-slip rescue plot, and a slow-burn romance, all running at once across a tight 12-episode, twice-weekly schedule.
A body-swap sibling comedy stacked on top of a camcorder time-slip rescue plot — betting volume over prestige.
A genre mashup with more moving parts than most premieres this season — body swap, time slip, and a slow-burn romance all running at once, with a cast that has the range to make it work if the tone holds.
03 / 03
Two mothers raised two very different definitions of sacrifice: Jo Mi-mi gave up everything for her family until it killed her, while Jeon Jin-hee gave up her own daughter the moment greed made the math work. KBS1’s new daily drama drops Kang Da-mi (Jung Min-ah), Mi-mi’s hopeful daughter, into a fashion house run by Cha Seung-yoon (Dong Ha), a boss chasing the truth about an accident that killed his parents twenty-three years ago.
Da-mi answers to Seung-yoon by day, which means two people built to eventually blow each other’s family secrets open first have to survive the workplace together — a slow-burn setup for KBS1’s 120-episode weeknight run.
A dueling-mothers premise with real dramatic teeth, stretched across a 120-episode KBS1 weeknight run.
A family-melodrama premise with real bite — sacrifice versus betrayal — built to sustain KBS1’s demanding weeknight, 120-episode format.
✅ Complete — Ready to Binge
3 dramas completed
All episodes are out now — binge away.
01 / 03
Nine years after the Made in Korea finale, Baek Ki-tae is running the KCIA’s drug empire from the director general’s chair — and about to find out what he owes for winning that hard. Jang Geon-young comes back from disgrace with a long-game revenge campaign, and this time the fight reaches inside Ki-tae’s own family.
Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung return to the rivalry that made Season 1 Disney+’s most-watched Korean original of 2025, with Woo Do-hwan’s Baek Ki-hyeon pulled toward a side he never wanted to pick.
A built-in structural hook most sequels don’t get: the villain already won, so this season has to earn the rematch.
A sequel with the same two movie stars and a sharper structural hook, betting that a family fracture hurts more than a corrupt agency ever could.
02 / 03
Gong Eun-tae wins 1.3 billion won in the lottery — and keeps showing up to his sales job anyway, using the windfall as what the show calls ‘mental insurance’ rather than an exit.
The fallout ripples through Hongsung International’s hierarchy fast: superiors who once managed him through implied threat suddenly find that threat doesn’t land anymore.
A workplace fantasy that treats a lottery windfall as leverage to stay, not an excuse to quit.
A genuinely fresh premise for the genre — staying at the job instead of quitting after the windfall is where all the comedy actually lives.
03 / 03
Lady Cho proposes a wager to the capital’s most notorious playboy, Jo-won: seduce a young widow devoted to chastity and prove no one is beyond manipulation.
Son Ye-jin and Ji Chang-wook lead this Netflix remake of Untold Scandal’s Dangerous Liaisons-style seduction game, both cast sharply against their usual warm-lead image.
A starry Dangerous Liaisons remake betting on two warm, likable leads playing sharply against type.
A proven, beloved source story and two A-list leads cast sharply against type — Netflix is banking everything on the wager premise landing as genuinely dangerous, not just glamorous.
📅 Weekly Airing Schedule
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| Date / Day | Drama | Progress | Watch On | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed · Sep 9 | Made in Korea (Season 2) | 6 / 6 | Disney+ Hulu | Completed |
| Thu · Sep 10 | The Ordinary Jackpot | 10 / 10 | TVING tvN | Completed |
| Sat & Sun · Sep 12 | A Love Other Than Yours | 8 / 14 | KBS2 Prime Video | Airing Now |
| Fri · Sep 18 | The Scandal | 8 / 8 | Netflix | Completed |
| Sat & Sun · Sep 26 | Dive into You | 6 / 12 | Viki Disney+ | Airing Now |
| Weeknights · Sep 28 | Mission: Mompossible | 1 / 120 | KBS1 | Airing Now |
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