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Pierce Conran

March was a rocky month for K-dramas, with several shows embroiled in controversy.
One series (River Where the Moon Rises) underwent extensive reshoots, while another (Joseon Exorcist) was pulled off air entirely.
The industry will be hoping for smoother waters in April, and viewers have plenty to get excited about, with a number of exciting new series launching. They include a pair of supernatural stories, two tense thrillers, and a legal drama.
Read on to find out what new shows are hitting screens next month.


1. Taxi Driver
Based on the webtoon The Deluxe Taxi written by Carlos and illustrator Lee Jae-jin, this new K-drama from SBS stars Lee Je-hoon as Kim Do-ki, a naval academy graduate who becomes an underwater demolitions expert. His life goes off the rails following his mother’s death at the hands of a serial killer.
Now he is employed by the Rainbow Taxi Company, which, unlike your average cab company, offers a special service for customers seeking to exact revenge. Co-starring in the series are Esom and Kim Eui-sung, while handling the director’s reins is Park Joon-woo, known for the show Doctor Detective.  (April 9, SBS)


2. Sell Your Haunted House
KBS2 will air this supernatural drama, which tells the story of Hong Ji-a, an exorcist who runs a real estate agency. Not your usual broker, she lists locations that she has personally exorcised and rendered safe for sale. 
However, Ji-a has one trauma she has not been able to solve – the mysterious death of her mother 20 years earlier. Helping her get to the bottom of the case is Oh In-beom, a swindler who lives off fast cash from cons that often include made-up ghosts.
Playing Ji-a is Jang Na-ra,  who was last seen in the tvN show Oh My Baby,  while Jung Yong-hwa, of the K-pop outfit CNBlue, plays In-beom. (April 14, KBS2)


3. Law School
Three years after The Miracle We Met, Kim Myung-min returns to the small screen for the legal drama Law School on JTBC. Kim plays former prosecutor Yang Jong-hoon, now a professor at a prestigious law school. 
Disinclined to soften his speech, Jong-hoon has not endeared himself to the student body, but his only goal is to mould and recruit nimble minds to the legal profession. The only other professor at the school he gets on with is Kim Eun-sook, played by Parasite actress Lee Jung-eun. 
Among the first-year students under his care are Kang So (Ryu Hye-young), who comes from an underprivileged background, and the handsome hotshot Han Joon-hwi (Kim Bum), who harbours a secret. (April 14, JTBC)


4. Undercover
The second series from JTBC in April, Undercover is a Korean remake of the British series of the same name. Ji Jin-hee stars as Han Jung-hyun, an agent who was picked up by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) while he was studying at the police academy. 
He begins to work on a top secret case undercover, during which he meets Choi Yeon-soo (Kim Hyun-joo). He falls in love with her and they eventually get married. Yeon-soo is a civil rights lawyer but when she finds herself nominated for a top posting, her husband’s true identity slowly bubbles to the surface, causing chaos for both of them. 
Ji was last seen in Designated Survivor: 60 Days, while Kim recently appeared in Watcher. Ji and Kim previously co-starred in the 2015 drama Identical Affairs.  (April 23, JTBC)


5. Dark Hole
OCN will present the horror-tinged investigation drama Dark Hole, in which Kim Ok-bin appears as Lee Hwa-sun, a detective in Seoul who receives a call from the person who murdered her husband, telling her to go to Muji City. 
Upon her arrival she discovers that the residents have been gripped by a mysterious smoke that has appeared from a sinkhole, which turns the people who breathe it in into monsters.

Also in Muji is former detective Yoo Tae-han (Lee Joon-hyuk), who  works as a driver after a case that went awry. Still possessing a strong sense of justice, he  joins Hwa-sun when his town falls into peril. 
Kim is known to global viewers from films such as Thirst and The Villainess, while Lee starred in the hit show Stranger.  (April 24, OCN)


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Lee Je-hoon in a still from Taxi Driver.

Lee Je-hoon in a scene from Taxi Driver, one of five exciting K-dramas to watch out for in April.

A still from OCN’s horror drama Dark Hole.

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Shin Ha-kyun (left) as policeman Lee Dong sik and Yeo Jin-goo as his sidekick Han Joo-won in a still from Korean serial killer drama Beyond Evil.

Kang Min-ah in a still from Beyond Evil.

Choi Sung-eun (left) and Shin Ha-kyun in a still from Beyond Evil.

Lee Kyu-hoi (left) and Yeo Jin-goo in a still from Beyond Evil.

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Park Shin-hye in a still from Sisyphus: The Myth.

Park Shin-hye (left) and Cho Seung-woo in a still from Sisyphus: The Myth.

Sung Dong-il in a still from Sisyphus: The Myth.

Kim Byung-chul in a still from Sisyphus: The Myth.

K-drama midseason recap: The Penthouse season two – shifting allegiances and shocking death rock Hera Palace

Eugene (left) and Kim So-yeon in a still from The Penthouse season two.

Kim So-yeon in a still from The Penthouse season two where shifting allegiances and a shocking death rock Hera Palace.

Choi Ye-bin in a scene from The Penthouse season two.

Eugene in a still from season two of The Penthouse.

Han Ji-hyun in a scene from The Penthouse season two.

K-drama Mouse: hysterical serial killer series gets off to confusing start

Lee Seung-gi in a still from Mouse.

Lee Hee-joon in a scene from Mouse. In the Korean drama series, Lee plays an alcoholic and volatile detective, who witnessed his family being murdered as a child. 

Lee Seung-gi (left) and Park Joo-hyun in a still from Mouse.

Kyung Soo-jin (left) and Lee Hee-joon in a still from Mouse.

Lee Seung-gi (left) and Park in a still from Mouse.

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Song Hye-kyo is set to star in Korean drama series Now We’re Breaking Up. Photo: Instagram.

(From left) Song Hye-kyo, Jang Ki-yong, Choi Hee-seo and Kim Joo-hun will star in SBS’s romantic drama series Now We’re Breaking Up.

Song Kang in a scene from the recent Netflix horror series Sweet Home. Photo: Son Ik-chung/Netflix.

Seo Yea-ji in a still from It’s Okay to Not Be Okay. Photo: Netflix.

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Lee Je-hoon stars in SBS thriller Taxi Driver, while KBS2 will air supernatural drama Sell Your Haunted House with Jang Na-ra and Jung Yong-hwa 
Undercover is a Korean remake of the British series of the same name, and stars Ji Jin-hee, while Kim Ok-bin takes the lead role in horror drama Dark Hole



Jang Na-ra plays an exorcist who runs a real estate agency and Jung Yong-hwa a swindler who helps investigate her mother’s death in Sell Your Haunted House, one of the standout Korean dramas launching in April.


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