Disney+ will present an all-time great lineup in 2026.
On the 22nd, Disney+ announced its 2026 Korea original content lineup. Following last year's Unmasked, Hyper Knife, Nine Puzzles, Low Life, Tempest, The Murky Stream, The Manipulated and Made In Korea, a diverse range of Korean content that crossed genre boundaries, Disney+ will continue to offer global viewers a rich selection of programming and highly immersive viewing experiences in 2026.
#1. overwhelming dopamine from intense action and survival: A Shop for Killers season 2, Unfated War 49
First, it will once again embody Disney+'s reputation for genre work with fast-paced storytelling, stylish action and choices that intersect in extreme situations.
In 2024, Killer's Shopping Mall — which was named best international TV show in The New York Times' "Best TV Shows of 2024" and heated up global audiences with unpredictable developments and thrilling action — returns in the second half of 2026 as season 2. A Shop for Killers season 2 follows Jian, who defended the dangerous shopping mall left by her uncle Jinman, as she becomes a target of the Babylon global force and steps back into the world of killers. Leading actors from season 1 who drew explosive reactions with fresh uncle-niece chemistry and intense action — Lee Dongwook and Kim Hye Jun — along with Jo Han-Sun, Geum HanNah, Lee Taeyoung and KIM MIN are returning, attracting intense interest. In addition, Hyunri, who has worked globally on titles such as Pachinko, Eye Love You and Tokyo Vice season 2, Okada Masaki of Drive My Car, and Jung Yunha, who established her presence in Big Bet, Exhuma, Palmy and Trunk, are joining as actors with solid acting skills to portray the Babylon global force, raising expectations for their activities within the expanded universe.
Destined War 49, Disney+'s original variety show that will present a new world of K-reality only available on Disney+, features 49 fate masters who test their destiny through various missions in a possessed survival competition. Moving beyond existing survival shows with bold variations, it will deliver fresh entertainment and intense immersion like never before. Top Korean variety show producers known for original formats and stylish direction from shows such as Culinary Class Wars and The Gentlemen's League have joined forces to raise the production quality. By centering the globally noted "K-shamanism" as the core theme of the survival format, the show is expected to pioneer a new area of variety programming. With an original concept no one has tried before and nail-biting missions full of tension, it promises a dopamine-inducing thrill. Destined War 49, which will spark a new K-reality craze worldwide with its novel and tight developments, will be released on Disney+ in the first half of the year.
#2. dramas and thrillers that further probe human desire and secrets: Bloody Flower, Goldland, Made In Korea season 2
Works that deepen storytelling with narratives that cross the line between good and evil and tension that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats are also in the pipeline.
Bloody Flower is a mystery thriller about people surrounding a serial killer who has the ability to cure all incurable diseases. When the motive of a serial killer who killed 17 bad people is revealed to be treatment meant to save the world's sick, a heated public debate erupts. The serial killer Lee Woo-gyeom (Ryeo-un), who holds the key to an incurable disease treatment; lawyer Park Han-jun (Seong Dong Il), who seeks to absolve him; and prosecutor Chai Yeon (Keum Sae-rok), who is determined to prove the truth, engage in tense acting and psychological confrontations in this K-thriller to watch at the start of 2026. Bloody Flower, which will be released in eight episodes with two episodes every week starting Feb. 4, is expected to present new themes and developments in February.
Goldland, a crime drama that has generated expectations with a golden casting lineup including Park Boyoung, Kim Sung-Cheol, Lee Hyun-wook, Kim Hie-won, Moon Jeong-hee and Lee Kwangsoo, will be released in the first half of 2026. Goldland follows Heeju (Park Boyoung), who accidentally receives a shipment of gold bullion from a smuggling organization, as she fights to monopolize the gold amid an Asura-like chaos of greed and betrayal among various people surrounding the gold bullion. Shedding her lovable image for a new face awakened to desire, Park Boyoung leads the cast alongside Kim Sung-Cheol, who explodes with raw energy; Lee Hyun-wook, who hides duplicity behind a gentle face; and Lee Kwangsoo, who reveals chilling madness. The actors' intense ensemble performances as they expose their instincts before the greed for gold will instantly capture global viewers' attention. Director Kim Seong-hoon, who proved his solid directing with films such as Confidential Assignment and Rampant and the drama Chief Detective 1958, and writer Hwang Jo-yoon, known for films such as Oldboy and Masquerade, have teamed up to complete an immersive narrative and raise expectations. The synergy between trusted production staff and uniquely present actors heralds the birth of a different level of genre work from Disney+.
Made In Korea, which captivated global audiences with dense performances from Korea's leading actors including Hyunbin and Jung Woosung and cinematic-level completion in each episode, returns in the second half of 2026 as season 2. Made In Korea season 2 is set in Seoul in 1979, a time of upheaval, and follows Baek Ki-tae (Hyunbin), who dug deep to the pinnacle of power, and Jang Geon-young (Jung Woosung), who returns with relentless obsession, as they shake the balance of an era amid an even greater conflict. Cast members who led season 1 — Hyunbin, Jung Woosung, Woo Do Hwan, Seo Eun-soo, Won Jian, Jung Sung-il and Roh Jae Won — continue to deliver strong presences in season 2, while new characters join to offer explosive chemistry on another level. With a much larger scale, more explicit and fierce desires and decisive moments of choice that will divide the flow of the era captured with breath-stealing tension, Made In Korea season 2 is expected to create another sensation.
#3. from flutter to fate, full-fledged romance arrives!: In Your Radiant Season, Perfect Crown, The Completion of Marriage
Through moments of love unfolding in different backgrounds and relationships, the lineup will present a new texture of romance drama that crosses genres.
On Feb. 20, the romance In Your Radiant Season, which will bring warm comfort to your heart, arrives. In Your Radiant Season is a drama about Chan (Chae Jong Hyeop), a man who lives every day like an exciting summer vacation, and Ran (Lee Sung-kyoung), a woman who has locked herself in winter, who meet by fate and awaken frozen time in an unpredictable "radiant" romance. The leads are Lee Sung-kyoung and Chae Jong Hyeop, whose portrayals will melt time frozen like a cold winter. Lee Sung-kyoung, beloved for delicate emotional acting in The Nice Guy and the Dr. Romantic series, plays Song Ha-ran, the head designer at the country's top high-end fashion house Nana Atelier, showing a new transformation. Chae Jong Hyeop, who captured global viewers' hearts with Eye Love You and Castaway Diva, joins as animator Sunwoo Chan from a world-renowned canned animation studio, adding to the romance. The drama will carefully depict how two people who lived in different seasons open their hearts to each other and change. Writer Jo Seong-hee, the master of refreshing romance who wrote Thirty But Seventeen and She Was Pretty, and director Jung Sang-hee, recognized for stylish direction in Wonderful World, have teamed up to herald the birth of a new romance syndrome.
Scheduled for release in April, Perfect Crown is a drama set in a 21st-century constitutional monarchy Korea that tells the fate-defying, class-breaking romance of Seong Hee-ju (IU), a woman who has everything yet is annoyingly of commoner status, and Prince Ian (Byeon Woo-seok), the king's son who has nothing and is a sad man. The pairing of IU and Byeon Woo-seok, currently among the most watched actors, alone draws strong interest. IU, who swept major awards including best actress at the 4th Blue Dragon Series Awards for When Life Gives You Tangerines, this year's actor at the 2025 Asia Artist Awards and best actress in the K-drama category at the 20th Seoul Drama Awards, and Byeon Woo-seok, who won six awards including best actor at the 2024 Asia Artist Awards for Lovely Runner and received a commendation from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at the 16th Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards, have each firmly established themselves as top actors and will delicately portray the inner lives of characters carrying personal pain. They will also present layered emotions that change as they encounter life-turning points through each other, along with chemistry that will make everyone's hearts flutter. Director Park Joon-hwa, who created empathetic characters with delicate direction in shows such as What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, Alchemy of Souls, Alchemy of Souls: light and shadow, and Love Your Enemy, and writer Yoo Ji-won, who won an excellence award in the 2022 MBC drama script contest for this long-form series, have teamed up to raise expectations for a highly completed work.
Scheduled for release in the second half of the year, The Completion of Marriage is a romance thriller about a man who engages in an extreme battle with a ruthless criminal to save his wife, who was kidnapped just before their divorce. Namkoong Min, who won the 2020 SBS acting award for Stove League and two MBC acting awards for Lovers and The Veil, and who has shown a unique presence in every role, plays Kang Tae-ju, a hospital director and former neurosurgeon who will deeply portray a husband's desperate emotions and the tense pursuit as he risks everything to save his wife. Lee Sul has been cast as the kidnapped wife Go Se-yoon; the two actors, who recently played ex-lovers in the SBS drama Our Movie, reunite as a married couple here to present a new chemistry. Director Kim Junghyun, who opened new horizons in the medical thriller genre with the Disney+ original Hyper Knife and received praise for stylish direction and three-dimensional character construction in Day and Night and Jugglers, will direct to deliver an even more immersive narrative.
#4. worldviews and fantasies that will captivate global viewers: The Remarried Empress, Portraits of Delusion
With original settings combined with stylish direction, the fantasy lineup completes a slate that will expand the imaginations of viewers not only in Korea but around the world.
Based on the web novel of the same name and a legendary webtoon that amassed 2.7 billion global cumulative views and sparked a worldwide phenomenon, The Remarried Empress arrives as a Disney+ original series in the second half of the year. The Remarried Empress is a romantic fantasy epic about Naviye, the perfect empress of the Eastern Empire (Shin Mina), who, after receiving a divorce notice from Emperor Soveiesh (Ju Jihoon), who has fallen for the runaway slave Lasta (Lee Seyoung), demands permission to remarry Prince Hainri of the Western Kingdom (Lee Jong-suk) instead, setting off a grand romance-fantasy. Shin Mina, Ju Jihoon, Lee Jong-suk and Lee Seyoung, Korea's representative actors with global popularity, meet in one work to promise explosive chemistry. Beyond romance, the dopamine-filled story includes court politics and intrigues, and with a lavish, massive-scale production unlike anything seen in Korean series, The Remarried Empress is poised to set a new standard in the romance-fantasy genre and draw global fans' attention.
Portraits of Delusion, which promises the best synergy with director Han Jae-rim and stars Suzy and Kim Seon-ho, will cast a spell on the world through Disney+ in the second half of the year. Set in 1935 Gyeongseong, Portraits of Delusion follows painter Yoon I-ho, who is commissioned to paint the portrait of Song Jeong-hwa, a bewitching woman full of suspicion and rumor who has not stepped outside for more than half a century, as he approaches her mysterious secret and the story unfolds. Suzy, who has built a strong filmography and her own acting world, is expected to renew her career-defining role as Song Jeong-hwa, a woman of enchanting beauty and strange, unknowable charm. Kim Seon-ho, who shows a wide acting spectrum across genres, plays the painter I-ho, who finds himself increasingly mesmerized by Song Jeong-hwa, showcasing a new transformation into a character who gradually loses his composure. Director Han Jae-rim, recognized for his unique style and messages that combine popularity and artistic merit, and the incomparable charms of the two actors Suzy and Kim Seon-ho, are expected to create Portraits of Delusion that will enchant the world.
Disney+'s 2026 lineup is composed of works that maximize the strengths of each genre — action, thriller, romance and fantasy — while reinterpreting them in Disney+'s unique style. Rather than merely listing genres, the lineup showcases each genre's storytelling in the clearest way, raising greater expectations, and various Korean works will continue to be announced sequentially.
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