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6 of the best new K-dramas to watch in June 2024, including, on Netflix, Hierarchy with Lee Chae-min and The Whirlwind
- Lee Chae-min and Roh Jeong-eui star in Hierarchy on Netflix, a K-drama set in a school whose students are chosen at birth. A transfer student shakes things up
- Sol Kyung-gu and Kim Hee-ae team up on Netflix in political thriller The Whirlwind, while 2018 series about con artists The Player gets a follow-up
With several major shows currently on air and networks keeping back some of their series for midsummer, June looks to be a comparatively light month for new Korean dramas.
Yet there is still plenty to choose from, with classic romantic dramas being readied for launch, as well as a con artist thriller and high-school mystery drama.
We preview six of the best K-drama series debuting in June.
1. The Player 2: Master of Swindlers
Lead cast: Song Seung-heon, Lee Si-un
OCN’s hit 2018 series about con artists, The Player, is returning to our screens courtesy of cable channel tvN.
Song Seung-heon will reprise his role in The Player 2: Master of Swindlers as master confidence trickster Kang Ha-ri, who leads a band of scammers. Also returning is Lee Si-un as the brilliant hacker Lim Byung-min, and Tae Won-suk as the beefy fighter Do Jin-woong.
2. Hierarchy
Lead cast: Roh Jeong-eui, Lee Chae-min, Kim Jae-won
Netflix Korea’s June offering will be Hierarchy, another teen drama set in a prestigious school.
That school is the Jooshin High School, which belongs to the Jooshin Group, whose students are chosen at birth to attend thanks to their family lineage.
3. My Sweet Mobster
Lead cast: Uhm Tae-goo, Han Sun-hwa, Kwon Yool
Meanwhile, Han Sun-hwa (Work Later, Drink Now) appears as Go Eun-ha, a YouTuber who runs a channel for children that isn’t very popular. One day she accidentally injures Ji-hwan while doing some part-time work, and he seems to recognise her. (JTBC, June 12)
4. Miss Night and Day
Lead cast: Lee Jung-eun, Jung Eun-ji, Choi Jin-hyuk
Jung is Lee Min-jin, a twenty-something single woman who has been struggling to find work for years. One day she wakes up in the body of a 50-year-old woman, played by Lee. Following this, she returns to her younger self at night and back to the older woman each morning.
5. DNA Lover
Lead cast: Choi Si-won, Jung In-sun, Lee Tae-hwan, Jung Eugene
In DNA Lover, Jung In-sun (Let Me Be Your Knight) plays Han So-jin, a genetics researcher with an unusual obsession: she wants to find the perfect man and believes the only way to do so is to find a candidate who is a perfect genetic match for her.
6. The Whirlwind
Lead cast: Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Hee-ae
After teaming up in The Moon last summer, Sol Kyung-gu and Kim Hee-ae will share the screen again, this time in the political thriller The Whirlwind.
In his first drama role, veteran actor Sol plays Park Dong-ho, a prime minister of South Korea who goes against a president he believes to be corrupt.
The Whirlwind is directed by Kim Yong-wan (The Cursed) and written by Park Kyung-soo (Punch). (Netflix, June 28)
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