News

5 K-Dramas To Watch Ahead Of The Exam Season: From Crash Course In Romance To Sky Castle(Photo Credit – YouTube)

Spring is here, which means exam season isn’t far behind! With the climate shifting, the inevitable exam pressure is already creeping, weighing on the brain. What better way to take a breather than with some school-centric K-dramas to share the burden of expectations? Whether it’s the cutthroat competition of Sky Castle, the legal battles in Law School, or the chaotic charm of Crash Course in Romance, none of these shows fail to capture the highs and lows of student life.

K-dramas have long mastered the art of blending humor, drama, and heartfelt storytelling, and Netflix and other streaming platforms have got you covered. We have calibrated a list of five engaging dramas that will let you escape (or relate to) the academic grind before things get intense!

5. Law School (2021)

As the title suggests,...

Picture: Jeon Do Yeon as An Yun Su in The Price of Confession – Netflix

The Price of Confession is a new South Korean thriller series directed by Lee Jeong Hyo, who also directed Crash Landing on You. Filming has almost concluded and will be released on Netflix in late Q4 2025.

The Price of Confession is an upcoming South Korean Netflix Original thriller series directed by Lee Jeong Hyo and written by Kwon Jong Kwan (Proof of Innocence).

Table of Contents When is The Price of Confession coming to Netflix? What is the plot of The Price of Confession? Who are the cast members of The Price of Confession? What is the production status of The Price of Confession? When is The Price of Confession coming to Netflix?

Netflix has announced that The Price of Confession is coming in Q4 and Kill Bok Soon (right)

Kim Go Eun plays Mo Eun.

Quality K-Dramas are abundant, but those with 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores are worth the watch. From alien parasites to heartwarming legal dramas, K-Dramas like Parasyte: The Grey and Extraordinary Attorney Woo offer diverse and engaging storytelling. Series like Chicken Nugget bring unique and hilarious premises to K-Dramas, providing a fresh and entertaining viewing experience.

Whether one is new to K-Dramas or a long-time binge-watcher, there are a Lot of shows available to watch across multiple streaming services, so it can be hard to know what to watch next. One reliable indicator of quality is Rotten Tomatoes scores, where a perfect 100% rating signals a reasonable consensus that the TV show or film is worth watching. With so many options now available, knowing which series has achieved this rare distinction can save you time and ensure a satisfying experience without fear of a shock mid-season cancelation or frustrating cliffhanger series ending.

Korean TV...

South Korean revenge thriller Revolver has secured distribution deals worldwide through Plus M Entertainment ahead of its local release on August 7.

The crime drama, starring Cannes award-winner Jeon Do-yeon and directed by Oh Seung-uk, has been acquired for North America (Well Go USA), Latin America (Impacto Cine), Middle East and North Africa (The Plot Pictures), Hong Kong and Macau (Neofilms), Poland (Media4Fun), Mongolia (The Filmbridge), Saarc (Premiere 9) and Cis (Provzglyad).

It was previously secured for France (Bac Films), Germany (Plaion Pictures), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Vietnam (Runup Vietnam), and Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei (Purple Plan).

The film reunites Jeon, who won...

Hierarchy On Netflix: Everything You Need To Know About The K-Drama(Photo Credit –IMDb)

A riveting tale of love, friendship, and revenge is coming to Netflix in the form of the new K-Drama, Hierarchy. The teen drama is set in a prestigious school where only high-class students get admission until an exchange student arrives with a scholarship.

Though the story does give out Elite vibes, the Korean setting makes it a promising watch. The stellar cast featured in the show further makes it highly anticipated. Here is all you should know about Netflix’s Hierarchy: its release date, storyline, and cast.

What is Hierarchy About?

The series tells the story of Jooshin High School, an esteemed institution dominated by two students: Jeong Jae-i, called the queen, and her boyfriend, Kim Ri-an, labelled the king. Their rule is undisputed until Kang Ha, a scholarship student with a grudge, gets transferred to the school.

South Korean sales company Finecut has picked up international sales rights to upcoming action-comedy Boss and will introduce the film to buyers at Hong Kong Filmart this week.

The feature is produced by Hive Media Corp, the company behind South Korea’s biggest box office hit of 2023, 12.12: The Day.

The story follows members of a gang amid the search to appoint a new boss. But rather than fight for the title, the gangsters dream of escaping to a normal life.

The cast is led by Jo Woo-jin of Netflix series Narco-Saints, whose character wants to run his family’s...

New insights are still being unearthed after Netflix dumped the viewership data for nearly its entire catalog from the first half of 2023, which includes more than 18,000 titles.

One of those observations is that young adult and female-centric content are doing especially well for the streamer. In fact, though The Night Agent is ranked No. 1 in terms of hours viewed, that’s really only because the data separates individual seasons of a series. Ginny & Georgia was actually the most-watched title from January to June on Netflix, with a combined 967.2M hours viewed between Seasons 1 and 2.

Season 2 of Ginny & Georgia debuted on January 5, and it alone racked up 665.1M hours viewed.

Season 1 tallied 302.1M (aka 30M “views”), likely reinvigorated by those catching up before watching the new episodes, as well as audiences who were introduced to the title for the first time.

For the first time ever, Netflix has published an engagement report for the movies and TV shows available on the streaming service. This report includes both original and licensed content and lists the total hours watched for everything that has 50,000 hours or higher, which amounts to more than 18,000 titles. It’s supposedly an effort by Netflix to be more transparent in their user data, likely brought on by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that called for streaming data to be shared more publicly. However, while this is an important step forward, the report reveals a lot more than just a giant list of numbers.

Shadow and Bone’s Perplexing Cancellation

Given the fact that Shadow and Bone was canceled after its second season, you’d think that the series would be pretty far down in this report. However, season 2 of the series ranks 26th on this list with 192,900,000 hours viewed.

Netflix just gave entertainment analysts an early Christmas present. For the first time, the streamer has shared a program-by-program breakdown of its traffic. The What We Watched report lists the viewership received by more than 18,000 shows and movies during the first half of 2023.

What We Watched represents a major reversal for Netflix, which was previously tight-lipped when it came to specific viewership figures. Instead of sticking to that policy, the entertainment innovator is providing the public with the same data it uses to evaluate its programming.

The advent of the What We Watched report can be partially attributed to the recent WGA and SAG strikes, which turned streamers like Netflix into Hollywood boogeymen. Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told Variety that viewership data was a prominent topic of discussion during the entertainment industry negotiations, but the strikes were not the “main factor” leading to the release of What We Watched.

“This...

The South Korean TV phenomenon goes way beyond Squid Game, as revealed by Netflix’s newly-released landmark viewing data report.

Series from the Asian country such as The Glory, Physical: 100 and Extraordinary Attorney Woo feature consistently at the summit of the 18,200+ title viewership data report that the streamer released this week, our analysis of the chart reveals. The data dump covers 99% of the Netflix catalog, as our extensive breakdown noted yesterday.

Deadline has calculated that content from South Korea accounted for a combined 3.71 billion hours in the top 100 titles in Netflix’s chart. The table reveals viewing data from the first six months of 2023.

It should be noted that South Korean series tend to run longer than many other countries — 17 hours on average compared with nine for those from the U.S.

Squid Game, the drama series that sparked the global interest in Korean streaming programs, clocked up 87.2 million hours,...

Netflix ripped the curtain wide open on Tuesday, releasing viewership data for nearly its entire catalog of original and acquired content.

The streamer says this will be a new bi-annual report, with the inaugural spreadsheet capturing viewing time for 18,000 titles (or 99% of the Netflix catalog) from January to June 2023. It is an unprecedented move for any streamer, and it comes on the heels of a ferocious fight for data transparency spearheaded by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA during its contract negotiations with the studios this year. While Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos insists the move is not a response to the guilds, the timing certainly raises questions.

However, it is not necessarily surprising that Netflix, of all the streamers, would be the first to release data on this scale. Netflix has been around much longer and likely has a better handle on its own data and success measurements than many of its competitors.

’What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ offers comprehensive viewing data.

Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.

The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.

Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.

The top four...

’What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ offers comprehensive viewing data.

Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.

The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.

Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.

The top four...

Doona! is a romantic comedy series created by Song Kyung-hee. Based on a webtoon titled The Girl Downstairs by Min Song-ah the Netflix series follows the story of a college student, who moves into a house and becomes roommates with a retired K-pop idol star who has left her glamorous days behind. Doona! stars Bae Suzy and Yang Se-jong in the lead role and if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar shows you could watch next.

Come and Hug Me (Viki & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Mbc TV

Synopsis: Yoon Na Moo’s father is a serial killer who murdered his girlfriend’s parents. Years later, Na Moo becomes a police officer to help make up for his father’s crimes and is reunited with his first love. Can they find love again?

Uncontrollably Fond (Hulu & Viki) Credit – KBS2

Synopsis: Sin Joon Young (Kim Woo Bin) and No Eul...

‘Hear Me: Our Summer’ is the remake of a popular Taiwanese romance feature.

Hive Filmworks has boarded sales of Hear Me: Our Summer, a Korean remake of popular Taiwanese romance feature Hear Me, and will launch the title at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm) in Busan.

It marks the second feature of director Jo Seon-Ho, whose time-loop mystery A Day proved a hit on release in 2017 and sold to a raft of key territories around the world.

His latest follows a young man who works part-time at his parents’ lunchbox house and a woman who lives only to support her hearing-impaired sister,...

Shawn Ryan‘s “The Night Agent” continues to be Netflix’s most-watched English language television series, inching up on “Bridgerton” as the streamer’s most-watched television series of all time, but it received some competition from the second weekend of Lee Sung Jin‘s limited series “Beef.” Read on for the Netflix Top 10 (Week of April 10) viewing chart analysis.

With 90 million global viewing hours last week, “The Night Agent” continues to be one of Netflix’s biggest hits, remaining in the Top 10 in 89 countries, although the first season of “Beef” topped the charts in the United States and “Love is Blind” Season 4 was Canada’s top series. “The Night Agent” is currently Netflix’s #6 series of all time with 605.6 million hours viewed globally, passing “Stranger Things” Season 3.

SEENetflix shuts down DVD business after 25 years

“Beef” received 70.3 million viewing hours globally, with an odd mix of countries from Estonia to the...

“The Night Agent” has jumped to No. 6 on Netflix’s most popular shows of all-time with 605.62 million total hours viewed since its March 23 premiere.

The thriller series, which scored an early Season 2 renewal at the streamer, logged another 90.04 million hours viewed for the week, and has tallied more than 73 million viewers to date. Last week, the action-packed series entered Most Popular Top 10 List at the No. 9 spot in the third week since its release.

While “The Night Agent” continued to hold onto lead on the week’s top 10 English TV Shows list, revenge dramedy “Beef” slid into the No. 2 spot on the English TV list with 70.38 million hours viewed. The Ali Wong and Steven Yeun-led series climbed to the top 10 in 87 countries.

Also Read:

‘The Night Agent’ Cracks Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular Shows of All Time in Just 3 Weeks

As reality dating TV lovers geared up for Netflix...

Netflix always seems to know when it has a potential hit. Although the action-comedy sequel “Murder Mystery 2,” starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, was probably a no-brainer, the continuing success of the spy thriller series “The Night Agent” certainly must be a nice surprise. Read on for the Netflix Top 10 (Week of April 3) viewing chart analysis.

Last week, Season 1 of “The Night Agent” spent its third weekend as the #1 English language series on the streamer with 130.5 million global hours viewed, which was enough to put it into Netflix’s all-time most popular English shows in ninth place with 515.6 million total hours viewed worldwide. The show is in the top 10 in 92 countries, many of which it remains in the #1 spot. Wisely, Netflix has already greenlit a second season.

Season 4 of “Love is Blind” follows in second place with 43.1 million viewing hours. The season finale of the popular reality TV series will drop this coming Friday,...

“The Night Agent” has entered Netflix’s Most Popular Top 10 List in the third week since its release.

The action packed series, which scored an early Season 2 renewal at the streamer, came in the No. 9 spot on the Most Popular List with 515.57 million hours viewed since its March 23 debut, nabbing over 62 million total views.

The thriller comes behind favorites “Stranger Things” Season 4, which currently sits at No. 1 on the Most Popular List, “Wednesday,” which comes in at No. 2, and “Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which takes third place on the list. “Bridgerton” Seasons 1 and 2 sit at the No. 5 and No. 4 place, respectively.

“The Night Agent” also held down the top spot on the English TV list with 130.48 million hours viewed this week, while newcomer “Beef,” a revenge dramedy series starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, debuted to the No. 3 spot on the English TV List with 34.08 million hours viewed...

A growing range of Thai, Japanese and Chinese-language films and TV shows are reaching global audiences – joining the by-now well-established international viewership for South Korean shows.

Netflix’s Global Top 10 for the week April 3-9, sees made-for-streaming Korean title “Kill Boksoon” on top of the non-English-language films list, with 27.5 million hours watched in its second week of release.

It is immediately followed by Thai film “Hunger,” about a young woman apprentice in an upmarket restaurant working under a tough boss. The film is directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri and stars “Bad Genius” breakout Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying.

Indian mid-air heist thriller “Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga” claims fourth spot in the chart. (India has had a film in the non-English top 10 every week in 2023 so far.)

In the non-English series rankings Korean revenge drama “The Glory” returned to the number one position in its tenth week of release. Its endurance makes it now the...

Netflix has released its Top 10 for the week of March 27, and it was little to no surprise that Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston‘s comedy sequel “Murder Mystery 2” entered the English language films chart in first place. After all, the original 2019 movie was such a huge hit for Netflix.

The action-comedy sequel entered the charts with 64.4 million hours viewed, the second-biggest launch for a comedy film with 42 million views, appearing in the Top 10 in 91 countries with it being the #1 movie in more than 60 of those countries.

Right behind it was the original “Murder Mystery” with 24.7 million hours viewed globally, and the previous #1 movie “Luther: The Fallen Sun” with 12.7 million viewing hours. The lack of strong family films in theaters allowed four animated films to get into the Top 10 with Netflix’s “The Magician’s Elephant” leading the pack with 6.3 million viewing hours.

See Netflix Oscar movies: 22 wins and counting

The...

It’s only March, and the action in 2023 has already been amplified to level 100. Marvel has been dominating the genre for the latter half of the last decade, but recently a lot of new players have entered the game with new franchises, top-quality choreography, and interesting storylines that have driven audiences to theaters. Of course, the best example is the “John Wick” franchise, which has surpassed expectations and brought a new generation delight for hand-to-hand combat and bulletproof tailor-made couture suits. In the last three months alone, we have seen large-scale action movies from Bollywood (Pathaan), Vietnam (Furies), Hollywood with chapter 4 of the aforementioned John Wick, and now South Korea has joined with the highly anticipated “Kill Boksoon.” Notably, this one comes closest to “John Wick” in style, plot, and even the couture suits (which are a perfect reason to watch this film). As a fan of Hallyu entertainment, I...

Kill Boksoon is the latest Korean movie to premiere on Netflix, and it also represents acclaimed actress Jeon Do-yeon's first real foray into action. Directed by Byun Sung-hyun (Kingmaker), the film centers on a woman named Gil Boksoon who leads a strange double life, volleying back and forth between a single mother of teenage daughter Jae-young (Kim Si-a) and a revered assassin at Mk Ent. When her latest mission goes sideways, she finds herself being the one hunted and risks a terrible collision of her two separate worlds.

While Jeon has showcased her range throughout a wide array of genres, she is perhaps best known for romances and melodramas, such as the popular series Crash Course in Romance, which is part of Netflix's Korean catalog. While the two projects have nothing to do with each other at first glance, the seasoned actress acknowledged an interesting similarity that connects them...

Netflix’s newest spy thriller series “The Night Agent,” based on the novel by Matthew Quirk and starring Gabriel Basso and recent Oscar nominee Hong Chau, seems to be a bonafide hit for the streamer. It debuted at #1 on the English television list with 168.7 million hours viewed. Created by Shawn Ryan of “The Shield,” the series ending up in the top 10 for 93 countries, many of them at #1. Read on for the Netflix Top 10 (Week of March 20).

Season 2 of “Shadow and Bone” was in second place with 55 million hours viewed – it was #1 in the Ukraine –followed in third by Season 4 of “You” with 30.2 million hours viewed. The first five episodes of the fourth season of reality series “Love is Blind” entered the charts in fourth with 25.5 million hours viewed. The documentary series “Waco: American Apocalypse” entered the charts right behind it with 21.5 million hours viewed.

“Luther: The Fallen Sun” remained #1 for...

“The Night Agent” might not be pulling “Wednesday” numbers, but the new thriller series had a very strong first week on Netflix.

The Shawn Ryan-created thriller topped Netflix’s Global Top 10 English TV series list in its first week of availability, with 168.71 million hours viewed. That’s the most for Week 1 of a new Netflix series, English-language or otherwise, since “Wednesday.” And we’re only counting four days of viewing, as “The Night Agent” debuted on a Thursday; Sunday night is Netflix’s weekly cutoff.

Beyond new debuts, “The Night Agent’s” start was the single best week for a show since Season 2 of “Ginny & Georgia” premiered to 180 hours viewed. Last week marked the third-biggest week for the debut of a Netflix show since the streamer started publicizing the Top 10 lists.

“Wednesday,” of course, still ranks at No. 1 in terms of new-series debuts, after it opened to a...

Korean drama “The Glory” Season 1, Part 2 maintained its lead on Netflix’s top 10 list with 123.59 million hours viewed, making it the most-viewed title for two consecutive weeks.

As viewers tuned into the revenge drama, “The Glory” was boosted to the No. 7 spot on the Most Popular List with 380.38 million hours viewed in the first 28 days of each episode’s premiere. Alongside “The Glory,” other Korean content maintained their spot on the list, with romantic comedy “Crash Course in Romance” receiving 14.36M hours viewed and docuseries “In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal” logging 8.1M hours viewed.

After “You” Season 4, Part 1 debuted as the most-watched title on Netflix in February, the murder-mystery continued to dominate the streaming service with the No. 1 spot on the English TV List at 64.06 million hours viewed.

Also Read:

‘You’ Season 4 Debuts as Most-Watched Title on Netflix

Also on the TV front, Season 2 of fantasy series...

“Outer Banks” dominated this week’s Netflix Top 10 list as the Season 3 premiere kickstarted a surge in viewership across its seasons.

As fans tuned in to watch Sarah, John B., JJ, Pope, Kiara and Cleo live the island life in Poguelandia, Season 3 logged 154.97 million hours viewed, making it the most viewed title this week. The show’s previous seasons also received a boost from the premiere, as Season 1 climbed to No. 4 on the list with 35.1 million hours viewed while Season 2 captured the No. 7 slot with 23.8 million hours viewed as Obx fans caught up on the sprawling treasure hunt and love triangles.

Netflix celebrated the Season 3 premiere with an immersive event and musical performances in Huntington Beach, California, in which the streamer announced “Outer Banks” would return for a fourth season.

Also Read:

‘Outer Banks’ Season 3 Review: Netflix’s Treasure Hunt Caper May Be Getting Old, but It’s Still Dumb Fun

On the film side,...

Netflix has released the Top 10 viewing numbers for the week of February 13, and without any new high-profile releases last week, the charts mostly remained the same as last time. Penn Badgley’s series “You” and the Reese Withspoon-Ashton Kutcher rom-com “Your Place or Mine” did well again, the latter presumably helped by Valentine’s Day last Tuesday.

The fourth season of “You” ended up in the Top 10 in 88 countries with 64.1 million hours viewed, down from 92 million views its launch week with the first five episodes having 38 million views. The first and third seasons also continue to be watched with 22.4 million and 15.6 million hours, respectively.

By comparison, “Your Place or Mine” increased its views to 52.8 million hours vs. the previous week’s 51.2 million views. Again, the romantic comedy from “The Devil Wears Prada” scribe Aline Brosh McKenna probably got a nice bump from V-Day. Other movies returning to the...

Netflix has released its weekly Top 10 viewing numbers for the week of February 6 with the returning series “You,” starring Penn Badgley, as its top English-language television series with over 92 million hours viewed worldwide.

The romantic comedy “Your Place or Mine,” teaming Reese Witherspoon with Ashton Kutcher, was the top viewed movie for the week with 51.2 million viewing hours. Written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna (“The Devil Wears Prada”), the cross-country love story was released on the streamer in time for the weekend before Valentine’s Day. It was not only the #1 movie in the United States but also in every European region, Australia, New Zealand, as well as a number of South and Latin American countries.

The murder mystery series “You” is now on its fourth season, which will be split into two parts, similar to “Stranger Things.” It landed in the Top 10 for 90 countries, while viewers also watched...

“You” Season 4, Part 1 debuted Tuesday on Netflix’s English TV List in the No. 1 spot as the most-viewed title last week less than a week after its release.

As fans binged the five episodes of the season’s first half, which follows Joe Goldberg’s (Penn Badgley) next chapter as he becomes involved with London’s elite society under the alias of Professor Jonathan Moore, “You” Season 4 hit 92.07 million hours viewed from Feb. 6-12, landing into the Top 10 in 90 countries.

As fans jogged their memory to remember why Joe ended up in London, they revisited earlier seasons, with Season 1 logging 19.24 million hours viewed and Season 3 accumulating 11.44 million hours viewed this week.

Also Read:

‘Ginny & Georgia’ Season 2 Breaks Into Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular English TV Shows List

After “Ginny & Georgia” Season 2 broke into Netflix’s Most Popular English TV list at No. 10 last week, the mother-daughter drama was...

Crash Course in Romance is a South Korean series directed by Yoo Je-won. A funny series that comes to us from South Korea, starring Jeon Do-Yeon and Jung Kyung-ho.

Crash Course in Romance is a series that manages to combine romantic comedy with a more classic and physical comedy based in ingenious dialogue. Briefly, more comedy and crazy situations than in a normal romantic comedy.

Crash Course in Romance (2023)

As happens in Love To Hate You, Crash Course in Romance is a series that, if you like this kind of humor that borders the absurd, will entertain you.

A curious comedy that is also about capitalism and an ironic gaze that is quite entertaining. We loved it and have found it to be very funny, a great and fun way to spend this week just

before Valentine´s Day.

A happy, zestful series that is very amenable and that you...

“Ginny & Georgia” Season 2 has broken into Netflix’s Most Popular English TV list at No. 10 five weeks after its release.

The YA drama series, which follows the tumultuous relationship between the not-always-dynamic mother and daughter duo Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Georgia (Brianne Howey), received an additional 38.09 million after its Jan. 5 premiere, bringing Season 2 viewing to 504.77 million total hours viewed among nearly 56 million households.

Created by Sarah Lampert, besides Gentry and Howey, the series features Felix Mallard as Marcus Baker, Scott Porter as Paul Randolph, Sara Waisglass as Maxine Baker and Diesel La Torraca as Austin Miller, among others.

Also Read:

Netflix Viewers Flock to ‘Ginny & Georgia’ for Season 2 Debut

Just over a month after the sophomore season of the drama made its debut on the streamer, “Ginny & Georgia” Season 2 remained on Netflix’s Top 10 list at No. 1 for four weeks and reached the Top 10 in 88 countries.

The...