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Empress Navier has helped build the Eastern Empire into a prosperous land at her husband’s side. Then Emperor Sovieshu brings home Rashta, a runaway slave, and makes it plain he intends to keep her as his mistress.

Navier takes the betrayal calmly and strikes a bargain: she will agree to a divorce if she is allowed to remarry Prince Heinrey, the rival ruler of the Western Kingdom. Adapted from the hit webtoon and web novel, with Shin Min-a leading.

Kang Tae-gu only knows extreme gags. He leads Asura, a comedy team that was once the rookie to watch and has spent a decade being overlooked, together with two teammates who are torn between the stage and the rest of their lives.

Their path crosses with a woman whose own life has collapsed, and the drama follows all of them as they try to get back up. A comedy about ten years of almost making it.

Jang Woo-ju is a model student and class president who has put everything into getting into medical school. His routine falls apart when Pi Na-young, a vampire transfer student from Romania, arrives at his school.

After accidentally becoming keeper of her secret, Woo-ju ends up looking after her studies and school life. As they bicker, Na-young can’t tell whether her racing heart is love or just vampire instinct. A Wavve spin-off of the sitcom Hello, Francesca.

Gong Yu-il is a job seeker taking part-time work when she unexpectedly becomes the manager of Tak Mu-i, a top star hiding the scars of a stalking incident.

What Mu-i doesn’t know is that Yu-il has been writing in secret — her novel is the very one that once comforted the star. A star-and-manager romance with a secret-author twist.

Kwon Do-hyuk runs a struggling entertainment company, trusts data over instinct, and sleeps badly. Then a voice on an album catches his attention: the indie singer Soo, who is really Lee Eun-chae, a call-center worker by day.

Do-hyuk uses her secret as leverage and forces her into a three-month contract as his secretary. Neither of them expects the line between work and attraction to blur.

Set in the late Three Kingdoms era, the drama follows Silla as it fights Goguryeo, Baekje and Tang in turn, with its kings and generals working toward unifying the Korean Peninsula.

Lee Hyun-wook plays Kim Beop-min, the man history remembers as King Munmu, alongside Jang Hyuk, Kim Kang-woo and Park Sung-woong in a stacked ensemble.

Cha Yeon-ho and Min So-hee return as the Namgang Police Station’s Traffic Crime Investigation team, now stepping up to a regional unit that takes on traffic crimes nationwide.

Heo Sung-tae, Lee Ho-cheol and Choi Moon-hee are back, and NCT’s Jisung joins as a rookie officer. The chases get bigger; the team dynamic is the same.

A mutilated body in Tokyo carries a message written in blood in Korean. Later, a disfigured corpse turns up in Korea with a message in Japanese.

Two police forces may be chasing one serial killer working across both countries. Kim Seok (Son Suk-ku) and Japan’s Inose (Eita Nagayama) have to join forces.

Divorce lawyer Cha Eun-kyung returns for a second season with a new rookie partner, played by Kim Hye-yoon, while Park Hae-jin and P.O join the cast.

The legal-drama format stays: a veteran and a newcomer with different values, handling the cases that come through the law firm.

The long-awaited sequel to the 2016 hit, in which detectives from the present and the past communicate by walkie-talkie to solve long-unsolved cases. Lee Je-hoon and Kim Hye-soo return.

Local reports have pointed to a Nov 30 start, but tvN has said the schedule is not finalized, so treat the date as unconfirmed.