11 new K-dramas to watch in September 2022: Narco-Saints on Netflix, Little Women, The Law Café and more

Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women gets a contemporary Korean update, starring Kim Go-eun of Yumi’s Cells and Squid Game’s Wi Ha-joon

Meanwhile, Netflix crime drama Narco-Saints will be the most expensive Korean drama ever made per episode – but will it gain as much acclaim as Squid Game?

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Ha Jung-woo (left) as Kang Ingu and Hwang Jung-min as Jeon Yohan in a still from Narco-Saints. Photo: Cho Wonjin/Netflix.

Published: 7:15pm, 30 Aug 2022Updated: 7:50pm, 30 Aug 2022

With autumn just around the corner and South Korea ready to celebrate Chuseok, the Korean version of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the drama industry has scheduled a dizzying number of major new show launches in September, including a quartet of legal dramas and Netflix Korea’s biggest show of the year.

1. X in Crisis

Film director Kim Jung-hoon transitions to the small screen with the Wavve original streaming series X in Crisis.

Reuniting his The Accidental Detective stars Kwon Sang-woo and Sung Dong-il, this comedy tells the story of Yoon (Kwon), a top university graduate who went on to work at a top company but is now a middle-aged man on the brink of bankruptcy.

Sung plays Heo Joon, a grouchy neighbourhood doctor with a heart of gold. (Wavve, starts September 2)

2. Little Women

Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women is getting a contemporary Korean update from celebrated writer Chung Seo-kyeong, the scriptwriter behind the drama Mother and many of Park Chan-wook’s films.

The show stars Kim Go-eun (Yumi’s Cells), Nam Ji-hyun (The Witch’s Diner) and Park Ji-hu (All of Us Are Dead) as sisters from a family who struggled to get everything they have, and are now at odds with a powerful family. Squid Game’s Wi Ha-joon co-stars. (TvN, September 3)

3. The Law Café

Originally expected at the end of August, the latest Lee Seung-gi (Mouse) show will now debut in the first week of September.