New Disney+ K-drama Red Swan, a Korean take on The Bodyguard starring Rain and Kim Ha-neul, is so far a colourful mix of global locations, dynamic set pieces and glossy melodrama.

Two years after playing the lead in Ghost Doctor, K-pop star Rain is returning to the small screen as a bodyguard in the new original K-drama series Red Swan on Disney+, alongside Kim Ha-neul.

The online outrage marks deepening gender conflict among youth in South Korean society, fuelled by social and economic woes, expert says.

The story of a group of assassins who disguise their hits as accidents, and their increasingly paranoid leader, is needlessly complicated in this remake. If there is some social commentary, it is obscured by chaos.

Lee Do-hyun returns in Netflix K-drama Sweet Home season 3, Kim So-hyun and Chae Jong-hyeop share the screen in romance Serendipity’s Embrace, and Jang Na-ra plays a feared lawyer in Good Partner.

Sul Kyung-gu, Kim hee-ae and Im Se-mi star in Netflix’s new political Korean drama The Whirlwind, but bland scripting that sorely lacks fun and charisma overwhelms its better elements.

Chun Woo-hee and Song Joong-ki are considering roles in the Korean drama My Youth, while Jin Ki-joo has signed on to Undercover High School, and Kim Da-mi is in talks to lead A Hundred Memories.

Even viewers who know their South Korean history may struggle with Uncle Samsik’s mix of actual and fictional events, depicted using newsreel footage and scenes shot to appear as if they are newsreels.

Lee Min-ki stars as a police traffic crime investigator whose role in a fatal road accident was not all it seems. We are drip-fed information about it until the truth emerges, at which point the plot takes a turn.

Suho says that for his star turn in period K-drama Missing Crown Prince, he recited his lines ‘over 100 times’. The EXO K-pop band member has no regrets over his performance, but isn’t ‘completely satisfied’.

Lee Jung-eun and Jung Eun-ji play the same character in this fantasy comedy that sees a woman grappling with a condition that has her magically flitting between her twenties and middle age.

South Korean actor Lee Je-hoon, best known for his role in K-drama Taxi Driver, endeared himself to viewers with his fearless approach to acting and his willingness to challenge himself in a variety of roles.

Pyo Ye-jin and Lee Jun-young star in this update of the Cinderella tale. The K-drama is brash and uneven, and the story surprisingly difficult to follow.

Do Da-hee (Chun Woo-hee) was saved from a fire in the past by a mystery man who died, who can only have been Bok Gwi-ju (Jang Ki-yong). We learn how he travelled back in time to save her – and there’s a twist.

Hierarchy appears to offer social commentary and a story about the breakdown of the social order at an elite high school, but delivers neither. Worse still, it is downright dull.

Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho dominate the top 10 films ranked by the Korean Film Archive, with two entries each. Also there are Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry, and influential 1960 movie The Housemaid.

The second half of life is when you can live well because you have the experience from living the first half, Rhee Kun-hoo says – he has more to say in his book If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy.

Expectations are high for the webtoon adaptation Dear X, and Netflix’s popular Bloodhounds series is set to return for season two. We are all ears for the latest K-drama casting talk.

Actors Song Kang-ho and Byun Yo-han show their acting prowess as the events leading up to a failed coup d’état continue to unfold in Disney+’s Uncle Samsik.

Song Seung-heon’s gang of con artists returns to fight more injustices in The Player 2: Master of Swindlers, which offers plenty of banter and brawls – but will it be enough to keep viewers tuning in?

Yoon Chan-young pulls double duty as a middle-aged gangster stuck in the body of a student in High School Return of a Gangster – it is a diverting watch, but something seems to be missing.

Hierarchy on Netflix stars Lee Chae-min and Roh Jeong-eui as students at an elite high school, The Whirlwind on Netflix is a political thriller starring Sol Kyung-gu and Kim Hee-ae, and tvN has The Player 2.

The Bok family once had superpowers, but have lost their gifts. When Do Da-hee (Chun Woo-hee) enters their orbit they are restored. Well written, well acted and well made, how will this Netflix show end?

The CEO of Singapore-based Evergreen Group Holdings, David Yong made his K-pop debut at age 34, while beauty influencer Noor Naim was the first Arabian YouTuber to reach 10 million subscribers

A psychologist teams up with her nagging mother-in-law to find out why her family is being threatened by an unknown blackmailer in Bitter Sweet Hell – which, so far, is heavy on style without much happening.

Netflix’s Frankly Speaking, a K-drama starring Go Kyung-pyo and Kang Han-na, has the ingredients needed for a good romantic comedy but is lacking in humour and chemistry between its lead characters.

Son Suk-ku could be joining Han Ji-min, Lee Jung-eun and Kim Hye-ja in K-drama More Beautiful Than Heaven, while Jung Kyung-ho is set to lead a legal comedy and Byun Yo-han is in the frame for Reborn.

A rising global music star, DJ Peggy Gou is about to release her first album as a singer. She talks overcoming racism, sexism and jealousy to rise to the top, and pride in her Korean identity.

Disney+ K-drama, a prequel to the popular Chief Inspector series of the 1970s and 80s, stars Lee Je-hoon as Detective Park Yeong-han and Seo Eun-soo as his sweetheart Lee Hye-ju.