Made in Korea Season 2 Premieres Sept. 9 on Disney+, Hulu
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- Made in Korea returns for Season 2 with a two-episode premiere on Sept. 9, streaming exclusively on Disney+ and Hulu, followed by two new episodes each Wednesday through Sept. 23.
- Hyun Bin reprises Baek Kitae, now serving as deputy director within the Korean CIA while expanding drug operations across the region after framing prosecutor Jang Geonyoung in Season 1.
- Jung Woosung returns as Jang Geonyoung, who emerges from the shadows to pursue a revenge plot nearly a decade in the making as both men escalate tactics to eliminate each other.
- Woo Dohwan returns as Baek Kihyun, Kitae's brother, rounding out the core cast for the six-episode continuation.
- Park Eunkyo and director Woo Minho — both Season 1 veterans with credits including "The Silent Sea," "The Man Standing Next," and "Inside Men" — return to write and direct Season 2.
- Hive Media Corp produces Season 2, the same company behind "Inside Men," "The Man Standing Next," and "12.12: The Day."
- Season 1 was 2025's top-viewed Korean original series premiere on Disney+ in the Asia-Pacific region.
Why it matters: Disney+ and Hulu are extending a Korean crime noir hit that ranked as the platform's top-viewed Korean original premiere in Asia-Pacific for 2025, with the Sept. 9 bow anchoring the streamers' fall slate alongside titles like "Tempest" and "The Manipulated." Hive Media Corp's track record on "12.12: The Day" and "The Man Standing Next" signals Season 2 will lean into the same political-thriller DNA that drove Season 1's audience. The compressed two-episodes-per-week release schedule concentrates the Hyun Bin–Jung Woosung collision into a four-week window.
