March came with a K-drama that stung our tear glands. ‘When Life Gives You Tangerines’ didn’t come to play with the onion-cutting. Thankfully, other dramas like ‘Potato Lab’ and ‘The Art of Negotiation’ were able to put a smile on our faces.

Here are the dramas you should prepare your popcorn for in April. Most of them have actors who haven’t graced the screen in a while, and they look promising:

Way Back Love

Gong Myung is coming back to the screen after disappearing for about four years. He will be playing Kim Ram-woo, who was childhood friends with Jung Hee-wan, to be played by Kim Min-Ha. He died and became a grim reaper, only for him to see her in front of him after six years because she didn’t have the will to live.

They both had feelings for each other while he was alive, but they couldn’t confess before he got into the accident that caused his death. He tells her that she has only one week before she dies, and if she wants to die peacefully, she needs to call his name three times. Hee-wan, who had lived a lonely life, didn’t want to be separated from him the second time, so she didn’t call his name. He ended up getting to make a bucket list they will both carry out together before she dies. Smells like a tragic ending, but what can K-drama screenwriters not do? Over to their magic! This drama will air on April 3, 2025, on TVING.

Crushology 101

Roh Jeong-Eui will be playing Ban Hee-jin, who is known as Bunny. She’s a top student at Yein University’s sculpture department and has a good personality. She preferred personality over a guy’s appearance as a freshman, but she ended up dating a man who was bad at both. Their relationship didn’t go well because of the pretense of the guy, and that got her branded a fool for love.

After admitting that she likes a good-looking man, her first relationship left her with a low self-esteem trauma that couldn’t help her make a firm decision when various charming men appeared in front of her. Hwang Jae-Yeol, played by Lee Chae-Min, is a representative of the visual design department, and he is respected and loved by his peers because of his warm personality. Cha Ji-Won, played by Jo Joon-Young, also seems like the perfect guy as the grandson of a chaebol family who also has a good personality and is the typical boyfriend material of every female student. Come April 4, 2025, this drama will air every Friday & Saturday on MBC. Catch up to see how Bunny will pick out the perfect man for herself.

Karma

Six people will get entangled in ill-fated relationships. A man who witnessed a mysterious accident and makes an irreversible deal; Park Hae-Soo, a doctor who lives with a childhood trauma; Shin Min-A, a man whose desire is to make a large amount of money that will change his life, ended up borrowing from loan sharks for investment in cryptocurrency only to meet a collapse Lee Hee-Jun, a man who lost his job unfairly and got involved in a case that deals with a large sum of money; Kim Sung Kyung, a man who runs a private clinic in Gangnam; Lee Kwang-Soo, a dangerously charming man played by Gong Seung-Yeon.

This drama will air April 4, 2025 on Netflix, and with the rich cast, it’s expected to be a hit. If you are curious about their ill-fated relationship, it’s time to add it to your watch list.

Resident Playbook

This medical drama will tell the story of the people at Jongno Yulje Medical Center. It will explore the relationships between the professors and ob-gyn residents. The drama will also focus on the first-year ob-gyn resident Oh Yi-Young, played by Ko Yoon-Jung. It will air on tvN on April 12, 2025, as a weekend drama and we can already vouch that it will be one of those medical dramas that will be engraved in our hearts and diaries.

The Haunted Palace

A government officer, Yoon Gab, played by Yook Sung-Jae, who works within the palace, has a good reputation and appearance until he becomes possessed by an Imoogi related to Yeo-ri, who is played by Bona, and will be perceived as someone who has lost his mind.

As the only granddaughter of a famous shaman, she possesses a divine gift but refuses her fate. She works as a glasses craftswoman instead and the Imoogi needs her body to ascend to heaven but she wouldn’t allow it.

After her crush, Yoon Gab became possessed; she has no choice but to enter the palace that is filled with powerful female ghosts and evil spirits. The monarch, King Lee Sung, who is played by Kim Ji-hoon, is in search of the secret of the female ghosts who hold a grudge against the royal family. To get rid of them, the trio will team up. Slated for airing on April 18, 2025, it will be an SBS weekend drama on Friday & Saturday. Seeing how it has the ghosts’ element, viewers are in for a comic ride as the romance blooms in their adventure.

Heavenly Ever After

When Lee Hae-Sook, played by Kim Hye-ja, was alive, she became the head of her household overnight due to her husband’s death. Now, at the Heaven Admission Counseling office, she makes the decision to live her current appearance in heaven after dying at the age of 80. This is because her husband told her she was prettiest at the old age.  

She reconnects with her husband, Ko Nak-Joon, played by Son Suk-ku, who has the appearance of himself from his younger days and works as a mailman in Heaven. It turns out, she is the only person who has chosen not to return to her youthful days in Heaven. He had built a pretty house in Heaven for her and waited there. After finally reuniting, they began their life in Heaven. Set to air on JTBC by April 19, it will surely be worth the time.

Pump Up the Healthy Love

Do Hyeon Jung, the manager of a 24-hour gym, becomes a health freak who corrects the lives of his members strictly. He fights a fierce game of survival between being a self-employed businessman and a trainer in an unfriendly world, only to collide with a travel agency planning manager, Lee Mi Ran, whose character revolved around food and burning love.

Set to air by KBS2 on April 30, 2025, it will be a Wednesday & Thursday rom-com that is worth looking forward to.

April is set to deliver several genres and tropes on our screens with the romance, ghost, fantasy, and entanglement elements. Hopefully, they will bring us a lot of warmth, just like the warm spring season.

Happy Watching!