Every K-Drama Coming To Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video & More In September 2026

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Published Aug 30, 2026, 10:30 PM EDT

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As one of the most dominant international televised mediums around, K-dramas are unsurprisingly having yet another banner year in 2026. It's secured the latest spot on the all-time Top 10 debuts chart for Netflix with Teach You a Lesson, as well as introducing a plethora of memorable rom-coms, action thriller returns, and the latest vehicles for the biggest stars in the scene. While some like Sold Out on You or Can This Love Be Translated? have come and gone, the K-drama industry has plenty of excitement on the way even before the knockout later releases of the year like The Remarried Empress and Portraits of Delusion.

But for September 2026, the next additions include some true star-studded productions like the latest reimagining of a classic French story, another Hulu action thriller getting a second season and solidifying its position in that niche, and even a new body swap series. Its output is similar to that of August 2026's K-dramas slate, with the added bonus of brand-new shows from the past month airing the rest of their weekly runs like the long-anticipated Four Hands, Two Sonatas. Audiences craving each of the experiences can find the hottest upcoming September 2026 K-dramas below.

Made In Korea (Season 2)

K-Dramas Coming September 2026 Made in Korea season 2
  • Where to Stream: Disney+/Hulu
  • Studio(s): Hive Media Corp
  • Episodes: 6
  • Release Date: September 9, 2026 (Weekly)

With less than a year's waiting time before the latest vehicle for Hyun Bin (Crash Landing on You) to make its second-season return after debuting in December 2025, Made in Korea season 2 will conclude its acclaimed run in September 2026. Hyun Bin returns as Baek Ki-tae as the series jumps into a tumultuous period for the nation, with him being pushed from Deputy Director to the Acting Director role at the KCIA and on a collision course with the prosecutor out to stop him, Jang Geon-young (played by Jung Woo-sung).

Early glimpses of the series showcase its return as a significantly strong way to start the September 2026 K-drama slate as a high-concept, ultra-stylish thriller starring some truly fantastic talent. With two protagonists in direct opposite positions of the alignment chart, Ki-tae's unscrupulous schemes and corruptions have pushed him further up the ladder, while Geon-young does everything he can to prevent his nemesis from consolidating his power and becoming untouchable.

The Ordinary Jackpot

K-Dramas Releasing in September 2026 The Ordinary Jackpot
  • Where to Stream: Viki
  • Studio(s): CJ ENM Studios, Bon Factory
  • Episodes: 10
  • Release Date: September 10, 2026 (Weekly)

With a nice concise run on tvN and TVING in Korea, with more recent announcements confirming its streaming availability on Rakuten Viki, this workplace series explores the life of Gong Eun-tae (played by The Art of Sarah's Lee Joon-hyuk) as he wins the lottery. But rather than winning a life-changing sum, the ₩1.3 billion jackpot is certainly enough to change Eun-tae's outlook at work, but also not sufficient to leave him set for life in an expensive city like Seoul.

Still, it's an undeniably welcome change that allows him to resume his life as normal, even if it's foolish to assume nothing will change as a result. Coworkers will soon look at him differently, as will his superiors, with understandable impulses of jealousy and resentment likely to follow, as Eun-tae suddenly finds himself with enough of a cushion to offset his previous feelings of burnout.

A Love Other Than Yours

K-Dramas Releasing in September 2026 A Love Other Than Yours
  • Where to Stream: Prime Video
  • Studio(s): Uni Chem
  • Episodes: 14
  • Release Date: September 12, 2026 (Weekly)

Hitting the melodrama quota for September is A Love Other Than Yours, exploring the difficulties faced by its central couple, Namjung Ho (Seo Kang-joon) and Lee Mi-do (played by Ahn Eun-jin). Mi-do works as a film director, being effortlessly charismatic and charming everyone no matter the circumstances, eventually attracting a new prospective lover, while her partner proposes his own solution as they each find new love interests or colleagues with emerging new feelings based on shared pasts.

Joined by key additional leads Lee Joo-ahn (Bon Appétit, Your Majesty) and Jo Aram (To the Moon), this series could potentially be the messiest and most addictive of the lot for September 2026.

The Scandal

K-dramas Releasing in September 2026 The Scandal
  • Where to Stream: Netflix
  • Studio(s): Movierock, Cine Forest
  • Episodes: 8
  • Release Date: September 18, 2026

Netflix's upcoming period drama proves it's not about to be outdone in the spicy or messy romance game, shooting for the sky and grabbing a few massive stars while it's up there with The Scandal. An adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons, itself inspired by 2003's Untold Scandal film, this series brings together Son Ye-jin (Crash Landing on You), Ji Chang-wook (Colony) and Nana (Mask Girl) set in the Joseon dynasty.

The Scandal focuses on Lady Cho (Son Ye-jin) and Cho Won (Ji Chang-wook) as high-ranking members of society based on Dangerous Liasons's Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, whose romantic manipulations of others become more complicated with the additional entanglement of Hui-yeon (Nana). What was once a morally dubious games with others' emotions may become the leads' mutual undoing in this modern reimagining.

The production is the main contribution by Netflix meaning a relatively lean output compared to recent months, but between Netflix and Hulu, some of the biggest releases of the month belong to the iconic leads of Crash Landing on You alongside industry-leading talent.

Dive Into You

K-Dramas Releasing in September 2026 Dive Into You
  • Where to Stream: Viki
  • Episodes: 12
  • Release Date: September 28, 2026 (Weekly)

Rounding out a fun month for Rakuten Viki is Dive Into You, bringing the body swap and time slip dynamic together in fun ways. Bona (Twenty-Five Twenty-One) plays Yun Ha-na, a massively famous actress on the international stage whose sudden accident upends her life as she wakes up in the past, and in the body of her twin brother, Yun Ha-ru (played by Jang Se-hyuk). Despite obvious difficulties adjusting to her fate, Ha-na, in a different body, treats this as a second chance to reverse a tragedy in the past that claimed the life of her first love, Jung U-jae, played by Park Seo-ham (Our Universe) as Ha-ru must conversely adjust to his soul being swapped to his sister's body.

In addition to the above five K-dramas, there are some pending releases slated for unspecific September debuts such as BL series Mind the Boy and rom-com show Love Rediscovered. Additionally, Mission: Mompossible is slated for a September 28 debut with a whopping 120-episode run as a daily series running on weekdays, meaning a likely (but unconfirmed) Kocowa+ release. Any relevant updates on these series will be reflected in the overall piece.

With similar beats to those of Secret Garden and Lovely Runner, this series may just be the water-cooler story to carry into October and November, as it competes with similarly excellent Viki time travel and time-slip K-dramas like Twinkling Watermelon. To sweeten the pot even further, the main cast is rounded out by Ha-ru's outwardly strong and complex girlfriend, Son Ye-rang, played by Moon Seung-you, who memorably portrayed one of the Ming envoy chefs, Ya Fei Xiu, in Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, so stay tuned as this series caps off September's main K-drama additions.

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