Happy new year, as we start the new year, there are new Korean drama that you should consider . I’m sure there’s alot of kdrama coming our way in 2023 . So Let’s anticipate for the kdramas coming this month.
1. Brain Cooperation
No of episodes: 16
Cast: Jung Yong-hwa, Cha Tae-hyun, Kwak Sun-young, Ye Ji-won
Network: KBS2
Release Date: January 2, 2023
SYNOPSIS: A neuroscientist with a special brain and a detective with an altruistic brain collaborate but compete to solve a crime involving a rare brain disease.
2 Run Into You
No of episodes: 16
Cast: Kim Dong-wook, Jin Ki-joo
Network: KBS2
Streaming platform: TBA
Release Date: 4 January 2023
SYNOPSIS: Kim Dong-wook and Jin Ki-joo play a journalist and an aspiring writer, respectively, who become trapped in the past for seemingly unrelated reasons. Stuck in 1987, Yoon Hae-joon (Kim) tries to solve a cold serial murder case, while Bae Yoon-young (Jin) tries to prevent her parents from marrying. As they get closer to achieving their objectives, the pair realizes that their goals are far more intertwined than they had previously imagined.
3. Payback
No. of episodes: TBA
Cast: Lee Sun-kyun, Moon Chae-won, Kang Yoo-seok, Park Hoon
Network: SBS
Release Date: January 6, 2023
SYNOPSIS: People’s stories of refusing to remain silent in the face of unjust authorities and risking everything by fighting a money (jjeon) cartel that has colluded with the law (beop).
4. Agency
No of episodes: TBA
Cast: Lee Bo-young, Jo Sung-ha as Choi Chang-soo, Son Na-eun, Han Jun-woo, Jeon Hye-jin
Network: JTBC
Release Date: January 7, 2023
SYNOPSIS: This drama is about a woman from a poor family with limited academic credentials who becomes the first female executive at a major advertising agency as a result of her hard work and desire for success.
5. Poong, The Joseon Psychiatrist 2
No of episodes: 10
Cast: Kim Min-jae, Kim Hyang-gi, Kim Sang-kyung
Network: tvN
Release Date: January 11, 2023
SYNOPSIS: After being expelled from the royal court for his involvement in a conspiracy, a brilliant physician for the royal family meets an eccentric teacher and a widow in the mysterious and beautiful Gyesu Village. He is reborn as a true doctor who seeks to heal people’s hearts by prescribing happiness.
6. Crash Course In Romance
No of episodes: TBA
Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Kyung-ho
Network: tvN
Release Date: January 14, 2023
SYNOPSIS: A romance drama starring Nam Haeng Sun (Jeon Do Yeon), a former national athlete who now runs a side dish store, and Choi Chi Yeol (Jung Kyung Ho), a popular private education instructor. He becomes more insensitive and prickly with people as his success grows. This romantic comedy pairs two people with diametrically opposed personalities. Watch as two polar opposites attract each other and the love story blossoms.
7. Can We Be Strangers?
No of episodes: 12
Cast: Kang So-ra, Jang Seung-jo
Network: ENA
Date: 18 January 2023
SYNOPSIS: Oh Ha-ra and Goo Eun-beom, a divorced couple, star in this drama. Set in a divorce law firm, “goddess of litigation” Ha-ra is forced to confront her resentment towards her ex-husband when they are forced to collaborate on a case.
In addition to Ha-ra and Eun-complicated beom’s relationship, Can We Be Strangers? will focus on the difficulties that individuals and couples in their thirties and forties face as they navigate their careers, romance, and life through the ex-coworkers couple’s and clients.
8. Kokdu: Season Of Deity
No of episodes: 16
Cast: Kim Jung-hyun, Im Soo-hyang
Network: MBC
Release Date: January 27, 2023
SYNOPSIS: Kokdu, a grim reaper who possesses a mortal every 99 years to punish evil humans for their sins, is the focus of the series. In his most recent foray into the mortal world, Kokdu becomes involved with a doctor who possesses the special ability to control him.
Gye-jeol is intimidated by her peers and superiors who doubt her abilities because she graduated from the country’s lowest-ranking medical school. Despite the fact that Kokdu’s stay in the mortal realm is only temporary, he finds himself falling for the human doctor as he investigates their mysterious connection.
These are the dramas we should look forward to as we start the new year .
