9 new K-dramas to watch in November 2021: Netflix series Hellbound, Song Hye-kyo, Kim Soo-hyun’s latest shows, and more

Song Hye-kyo, star of Descendants of the Sun, returns for her first series in two years as the lead of the romantic drama Now, We Are Breaking Up

Part investigation drama, part social thriller and part dystopian horror, Hellbound is poised to challenge Squid Game and become Netflix’s next global hit

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Yoo Ah-in stars in Hellbound, the new Netflix series by Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho. It is just one of the November shows that K-drama fans have to look forward to. Photo: Courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival

Published: 12:45pm, 29 Oct 2021

Both Apple TV+ and Coupang Play will launch their first Korean original series in November, which is shaping up to be a particularly busy and exciting month for K-drama fans.

Netflix is also launching one of its biggest series of the year, while South Korean channels will feature the returns of several major stars.

1. Melancholia

Lee Do-hyun (Sweet Home) returns in the May to December romance Melancholia next month, as maths prodigy Seung-you who becomes close with his maths teacher, played by Lim Soo-jung (Search: WWW), at a prestigious private high school rife with corruption.

The show will also involve the mysterious Seung-yoo, who entered MIT as a 10-year-old but suddenly fell off the grid two years later and now struggles with his school grades following his return. (tvN, November 3)

2. Dr. Brain

Apple TV+ are getting ready to enter the busy streaming Korean streaming market on November 4, when they will unveil the six-part SF-thriller webtoon adaptation Dr. Brain.

Featuring Parasite star Lee Sun-kyun as a neuroscientist who dives headlong into cutting edge consciousness and memory technology following an accident involving his family.

The show is the debut drama series of Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon, known for A Bittersweet Life, I Saw the Devil and many other modern Korean classics. (Apple TV+, November 4)

3. Happiness

Han Hyo-joo (Cold Eyes) plays special police squad member Sae-bom, who moves into a new apartment block in this thriller series. Set in the near future, the show chronicles a deadly outbreak that results in the building being shut down, with those inside gradually starting to distrust one another as a zombie-like infection spreads among the residents.

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