7 new K-dramas to watch in August 2022: Netflix’s A Model Family, If You Wish Upon Me, The Law Cafe, and more

Jung Woo plays a professor who gets caught up with a shady drug in A Model Family, while The Sound of Magic’s Ji Chang-wook returns in If You Wish Upon Me

Other highlights of the Korean drama calendar in August include Hunted, Stock Struck, Unicorn, and Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist

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Jung Woo as Park Dong-ha in a still from A Model Family, one of seven K-drama highlights for August. Photo: Narda/Netflix

Published: 6:15pm, 30 Jul 2022Updated: 10:50pm, 30 Jul 2022

As rising temperatures and humidity force people indoors, South Korea’s drama schedule for August is packed with something to suit all tastes, from thrillers to period dramas. Here are seven to check out.

1. Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist

Kim Min-jae of Dali and Cocky Prince is back on screens as Yoo Se-poong, the titular character of the new TvN period drama Poong, the Joseon Psychiatist.

Se-poong is a talented doctor who works directly for the royal family – that is, until an unexpected event sees him expelled from the palace. He relocates to the idyllic Gyesu village, where he meets the eccentric teacher Gye Ji-han (Kim Sang-kyung of Memories of Murder) and the widow Seo Eun-woo (Kim Hyang-gi of Along with the Gods).

Se-poong resumes his work as a doctor, but also begins to treat patients’ mental ailments. (TvN, starts August 1)

2. Hunted

Monstrous actor Park Ho-san leads the limited MBC series Hunted as Young-soo, a middle-aged resident of a village who, with his friends, hunts boars that damage local crops.

Young-soo cross paths with Ok-soon in the mountains, played by Ye Soo-jung of Link: Eat, Love, Kill, an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease who believes that the fire which killed her son was caused by someone in the village. Soon enough, Young-soo’s son also goes missing. (MBC, August 1)

3. If You Wish Upon Me

Shortly after appearing in the Netflix series The Sound of Magic, Ji Chang-wook is back on screens in the drama If You Wish Upon Me. He plays Yoon Gyeo-rye, a man who grew up in an orphanage and has struggled throughout his life, including spending time in juvenile detention and later prison.

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