8 new K-dramas to watch in April 2022, from Our Blues with Lee Byung-hun and Shin Min-a to Tomorrow with Rowoon and Kim Hee-sun

Our Blues is a rural romantic drama set on Jeju Island, while Shooting Stars is an office romance starring Lee Sung-kyung and Kim Young-dae
Also coming to screens in April are two family dramas: Green Mother’s Club and My Liberation Notes. And there’s a lot more

K-drama news

Pierce Conran

Published: 7:15am, 30 Mar 2022

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Love is definitely in the air, with one of the starriest romantic dramas ever produced scheduled to hit screens in April.

Also to come from Korea, among some other romantic dramas, are a new occult show from the mind of Yeon Sang-ho and a new badminton drama.

Here’s the month’s new K-drama line-up.

1. Tomorrow

Originally scheduled for late March, Tomorrow will begin its run on April 1.

After appearing in The King’s Affection, SF9’s Rowoon leads this new MBC drama as Choi Joon-woong, a graduate of a top school from an affluent family who is finding it hard to find a job.

One night he crosses paths with two angels of death who belong to a crisis management team whose job it is to prevent people from committing suicide.

Kim Hee-sun of Alice plays the lead angel of death Gu Ryeon in this adaptation of the webtoon of the same name. (MBC, April 1)

2. Green Mothers’ Club

Taking over the slot in Korean broadcaster JTBC’s schedule that’s about to be vacated by Thirty-Nine is Green Mothers’ Club, which chronicles the friendship and challenges experienced by a group of five mothers.

The women get to know each other when their children enrol in the same elementary school. They each have their own struggles with motherhood and their personal lives, but together they help each other to overcome them.

The series stars Lee Yo-won (Different Dreams), Choo Ja-hyun (My Unfamiliar Family), Kim Gyu-ri (God of War), Jang Hye-jin (Parasite) and Joo Min-kyung (Jirisan). (JTBC, April 6)

3. Our Blues

An all-star cast assembles on screen in the ensemble rural romantic drama Our Blues.

Set on Jeju Island, this new show from Live director Kim Kyu-tae will chronicle the burgeoning romances between Lee Byung-hun (Ashfall) and Shin Min-a (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha), Han Ji-min (Miss Baek) and The Heirs’ Kim Woo-bin (his first time on screen in six years following his bout with nasopharyngeal cancer), as well as a love triangle between Cha Seung-won (One Ordinary Day), Uhm Jung-hwa (OK! Madam) and Lee Jung-eun (Parasite). (tvN, April 9)

4. My Liberation Notes

Kim Suk-yoon, the director of Law School and the Detective K franchise, returns with the family drama My Liberation Notes on JTBC, which is written by My Mister scribe Park hae-young.

Lee Min-ki (Oh! Master), Kim Ji-won (Arthdal Chronicles) and Lee El (The Call) play three grown-up siblings who are frustrated by and seeking escape from their lives in Sanpo Village.

Things start to change around them following the arrival of the mysterious Mr Goo, played by Son Suk-ku of D.P., a perpetual drunk who suddenly appears in the village. (JTBC, April 9)

5. Love All Play

Following last year’s Racket Boys, badminton fans are in for another treat with the upcoming KBS2 drama Love All Play. Park Ju-hyun of Mouse plays rising badminton player Park Tae-yang, who is forced to go on a break after an incident. Three years later, she returns to the sport when she joins the team Eunice.

Meanwhile Park Tae-joon, played by Chae Jong-hyeop of Nevertheless, is a badminton player who views the sport as nothing but a job. After being cut by his team, he also joins Eunice, where he meets Tae-yang. (KBS2, April 20)

6. Shooting Stars

Lee Sung-kyung of Dr Romantic 2 returns to a leading role in the tvN series Shooting Stars. She plays Oh Han-byeol, a public relations team leader at a management company who excels at crisis management, a useful trait in her profession.

Kim Young-dae (The Penthouse) plays Gong Tae-sung, the top star at the company. His fans love him for his kind and polite image, but his persona hides a fiercely ambitious side and a violent temper.

Despite constantly bickering over everything, Han-byeol and Young-dae steadily develop a romantic relationship. (tvN, April 22)

7. The Killer’s Shopping List

Missing director Lee Eon-hee makes her TV debut with the crime-comedy The Killer’s Shopping List, starring Lee Kwan-soo (Live) as Dae-sung, a man with a brilliant memory who has repeatedly failed to pass the civil servant exam and currently works part-time at the supermarket run by his mother, Myung-sook (Jin Hee-kyung, Suits).

Seol Hyun (Awaken) plays his girlfriend, police officer A-hee. A mysterious murder occurs in an apartment block near the store and A-hee is directly involved in the investigation.

Before long, Dae-sung and Myung-sook also join her investigation. Their only tangible clue in the case is a receipt that was issued at their store. (tvN, April 27)

8. Monstrous

For the second time in as many months, following The King of Pigs, Yeon Sang-ho has his name attached to a new drama. This time he is the co-writer (along with Ryoo Yong-jae) of the occult drama Monstrous, which marks the drama debut of acclaimed indie filmmaker Jang Kun-jae (A Midsummer’s Fantasia).

D.P.’s Koo Gyo-hwan stars as occult magazine editor Jung Ki-hoon, who travels to Jinyang County because of his ex-wife Lee Soo-jin, an archaeologist played by Shin Hyun-been of Hospital Playlist, to investigate a possessed Buddhist statue. (TVING, April 29).