It has been one other robust month for Okay-dramas, from the explosive success of Enterprise Proposal, the engrossing Netflix romantic comedy that climbed the streamer's world rankings (simply behind Bridgerton) to the beautiful Pachinko sequence on AppleTV+.

Right here, we spherical up a number of the most compelling new Okay-dramas and Korean movies to be unveiled in Could 2022.

1. The Sound of Magic

Launch date: Could 6

Based mostly on a webtoon referred to as Annarasumanara, this fantasy musical drama on Netflix is the newest work from Kim Sung-youn, who directed the hit Okay-drama Itaewon Class on Netflix.

The Sound of Magic sees a disenchanted teenager (performed by Choi Sung-eun from Past Evil on Netflix) determined to flee the tough realities of her life meet a mysterious magician (performed by Ji Chang-wook from Lovestruck within the Metropolis and Suspicious Associate on Netflix) dwelling in an deserted theme park who needs to stay a child endlessly.

The teenager good points a way of hope because the enigmatic man makes her troubles disappear into skinny air. "Have you learnt what to do when your coronary heart is damaged? Simply say the magic phrases," he says within the trailer for the sequence.

A still from "The Sound of Magic."
A nonetheless from "The Sound of Magic," the upcoming Netflix Okay-drama a few magician (pictured, performed by Ji Chang-wook) who helps a disenchanted teenager escape the tough realities of her life. iStock/Getty Photos Plus

2. Woori the Virgin

Launch date: Could 9

This Korean remake of the U.S. romantic comedy sequence Jane the Virgin sees Woori (performed by Im Soo-hyang from My ID is Gangnam Magnificence on Netflix), a author going through strain to get married after catching the bouquet at a marriage, be surprised to find she's pregnant with the kid of a party-loving CEO of a cosmetics firm following an accident at a gynecologist's workplace.

Issues get tough as Woori's boyfriend (performed by Shin Dong-wook from Dr. Romantic on Netflix) levels an elaborate marriage proposal which forces her to admit the surprising fact.

Woori the Virgin, airing on South Korea's SBS tv channel, might be additionally obtainable to stream on Rakuten Viki.



3. Hunt

Launch Date: Between Could 17-28

Squid Sport's Lee Jung-jae, the Display screen Actors Guild and Critics Selection Award winner who performed contestant no. 456 within the hit Netflix Okay-drama, will make his directorial debut with Hunt, an motion thriller premiering at Cannes Movie Pageant in Could.

Lee additionally stars within the movie as an agent for South Korea's Nationwide Intelligence Service who works with one other agent performed by Jung Woo-sung (the most important Korean film star who's the manager producer of the Netflix Okay-drama The Silent Sea) to trace down a spy.

See a poster for Hunt shared on Lee's official Instagram account right here.

4. Dealer

Launch Date: Between Could 17-28

That includes a star-studded solid together with Parasite actor Music Kang-ho, Bae Doona from The Silent Sea and the Kingdom sequence on Netflix and Okay-pop singer-songwriter/actress IU, this transferring Korean movie by famed Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda can even premiere on the Cannes Movie Pageant in Could, competing for the highest Palme d'Or award.

The movie follows the lives of a number of characters that cross paths by way of a "child field," the place moms anonymously drop off infants they're unable to boost.

5. Choice to Go away

Launch Date: Between Could 17-28

The much-anticipated new movie from Park Chan-wook, the visionary director behind the Korean movies Oldboy and BAFTA-winner The Handmaiden, sees a detective examine the mysterious demise of a person within the mountains.

Park's newest work, which can be competing for the Palme d'Or award on the seventy fifth Cannes Movie Pageant in Could, stars Chinese language actress Tang Wei in addition to Park Hae-il (the Korean actor from the Bong Joon-ho movies The Host and Recollections of Homicide) and Go Kyung-Pyo (from the gripping Netflix Okay-drama D.P.).

Park Chan-wook at 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Park Chan-wook, the famed director of Oldboy, The Handmaiden and the upcoming Choice to Go away, pictured on the pink carpet of the 2017 Cannes Movie Pageant.Tristan Fewings/Getty Photos

6. Kiss Sixth Sense

Launch date: Could 25

This upcoming new Okay-drama on Disney Plus sees an "extrasensory" romance unfold between Ye Sul (performed Search engine marketing Ji-hye from Crash Touchdown on You on Netflix and Dr. Mind on AppleTV+), a workaholic at an promoting agency who can see one's future when she kisses an individual, and her boss (performed by Yoon Kye-sang), whose 5 senses are 10 occasions stronger than that of others. Ye Sul is stunned to see herself in Min-hoo's future following an unintentional kiss between the pair.

See a poster for Kiss Sixth Sense on the Disney Plus Korea Instagram account right here.