Upcoming K-dramas to Watch in February 2025 | TheReviewGeek Recommends

February 2025 is here and brings all new K-dramas with it. We’ve got a period romance featuring a love triangle, a high school drama that takes student rivalry to the next level, and a young couple that must fight a city infested by zombies — and relationship issues — in order to make it back to each other.

Seo Kang-joon returns from his three-year hiatus, True Beauty star Moon Ga-young stars in a workplace romance, and Park Hyung-sik headlines a darker, revenge-driven drama that is quite the opposite of his role in Doctor Slump. Ready to dive in? We’ve got all the details for you including the release date, plot, cast, and where to watch these shows.  

Read on for the full list of new K-dramas releasing in February 2025!


The Scandal of Chunhwa

Release Date: 6th February  

Lead Cast: Go Ara, Chang Ryul, Chani

Where to Watch: TVING

Plot: The Scandal of Chunhwa is a historical romance drama set in a fictional country and revolving around the royal family’s youngest princess, Hwa-ri. After her first love fails, she decides to choose her own husband. She soon ends up entangled with two men — a notorious playboy and the city’s most eligible bachelor.


BLACKPINK Jisoo Newtopia

Newtopia

Release date: 7th February

Lead Cast: Park Jung-min, Jisoo

Where to Watch: Coupang Play, Prime Video

Plot: The roster of Korean shows can’t be complete without a zombie drama! In this one, Park Jung-min plays a soldier while Blackpink star, Jisoo plays his girlfriend, who is a new employee in an office. Coincidentally, a zombie outbreak spreads across Seoul on the day they break up. Will the two find their way back to each other?


Friendly Rivalry

Release Date: 10th February  

Lead Cast: Lee Hye-ri, Chung Soo-bin, Kang Hye-won, Oh Woo-ri

Where to Watch: U+ Mobile TV

Plot: Based on a webtoon, Friendly Rivalry is a psychological thriller that revolves around the intense competition between two students of an elite high school. One is a new transfer student who shifted schools after the mysterious death of her father, a former college entrance exam setter. The other is a top-ranking student who is also the school’s queen bee.


Buried Hearts Park Hyung Sik

Buried Hearts

Release date: 14th February

Lead Cast: Park Hyung-sik, Heo Joon-ho, Hong Hwa-yeon, Do Ji-won

Where to Watch: SBS TV

Plot: Park Hyung-sik is back with another drama and this time, he plays a cold and ambitious man named Seo Dong-ju. He is the head of the chairman’s secretary office in Daesan Group and aims to take over the company one day.

On the other hand is Heo Joon-ho’s character Yeom Jang-sun, a calculating villain and former head of the National Intelligence Service who wields immense wealth and power. The two leads will go head to head in this battle for power as well as a 2 trillion Won slush fund. New episodes of this drama will release every Friday and Saturday night from the release date.


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Melo Movie

Release date: 14th February

Lead Cast: Park Bo-young, Choi Woo-sik, Lee Jun-young, Jeon So-nee

Where to Watch: Netflix

Plot: This reunion romance follows Kim Mu-bi, an aspiring film director who meets and falls in love with an actor named Ko Gyeom. Until he disappears without a word. Five years later, they come across each other again but this time as a film director and film critic.


The Witch

Release Date: 15th February  

Lead Cast: Park Jin-young, Roh Jeong-eui, Lim Jae-hyeok

Where to Watch: Channel A

Plot: Park Mi-jeong is a young woman who has been labelled a witch because of all the bad things that happened to the men who fell in love with her. Lee Dong-jin, who was with Mi-jeong at school, meets her ten years later and decides to investigate the mystery around her.


Mun Ka Young Choi Hyun Wook My Dearest Nemesis

My Dearest Nemesis

Release date: 17th February

Lead Cast: Moon Ga-young, Choi Hyun-wook, Im Se-mi, Kwak Si-yang

Where to Watch: tvN

Plot: Based on the webtoon ‘That Man is Black Salt Dragon’, this K-drama will blend a workplace drama with a romantic comedy. The story revolves around Baek Soo-jung and Ban Joo-yeon who first meet as teenagers through an online game. They fell in love but things didn’t work out. Sixteen years later they meet again but this time, Joo-yeon is Soo-jung’s boss.


Undercover High School 

Release date: 21st February

Lead Cast: Seo Kang-joon, Jin Ki-joo, Kim Shin-rok

Where to Watch: tvN

Plot: This comedy action drama follows a National Intelligence Service agent who goes undercover as a high school student in order to track down missing gold bars. He gets entangled with several students, school corruption affairs, and a teacher he might have a past connection with — all while trying to complete his secret mission.


Which Korean drama are you most looking forward to in the month of February? Which do you think could become the best of 2025? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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