April is stacked with viral new releases across major streamers—movies that skipped your couch now land on Netflix, while K-romance and hard-hitting noir thrillers take over. From Jo In-sung and Shin Se-kyung’s film HUMINT to the Seoul-set teen hit XO, Kitty returning with its third season, plus a wave of gritty crime-noir entries including the star-packed Bloodhounds Season 2, Beef Season 2, and Park Bo-young’s talked-about noir series Gold Land—your watchlist just blew up.
▲ HUMINT
Overview Action Netflix
Release Apr 1, 2026
Cast Jo In-sung, Park Jeong-min, Park Hae-joon, Shin Se-kyung, Robert Mather
HUMINT collides characters with clashing agendas in Vladivostok, where secrets and truths sink beneath an icy sea. Four people head to the North Korea–Russia border city chasing clues to a string of incidents—and end up on a deadly collision course.
For global viewers, Netflix will provide subtitles in 33 languages including French, German, and Chinese, plus dubs in 21 languages including English, Spanish, and Japanese.
▲ XO, Kitty Season 3
Overview Comedy Netflix
Release Apr 2, 2026
Cast Anna Cathcart, Choi Min-young, Gia Kim
XO, Kitty, the hit spinoff of the Netflix series 'To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,' follows American teen Kitty as she studies at a prestigious Seoul boarding school, navigating life, love, and family while growing up along the way.
Season 2 previously cracked Netflix’s Global Top 10, fueling massive worldwide buzz—so expectations for Season 3 are sky-high. This season tracks Kitty’s final school year as she faces bigger questions about her future, relationships, and family.
▲ Bloodhounds Season 2
Overview Action Netflix
Release Apr 3, 2026
Cast Woo Do-hwan, Lee Sang-yi, Jung Ji-hoon
Bloodhounds Season 2 throws Gun-woo (Woo Do-hwan) and Woo-jin (Lee Sang-yi) back into the ring—this time taking on a global illegal boxing league where cash and violence rule, landing another cathartic straight hook.
The 2023 hit Bloodhounds won over global viewers with bare-knuckle action as two young boxers took on loan sharks. Three years later, the new season is finally here.
▲ Beef Season 2
Overview Drama, Black Comedy Netflix
Release Apr 16, 2026
Cast Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, Youn Yuh-jung, Song Kang-ho
Beef Season 2 kicks off when a young couple at an elite country club witnesses a shocking fight between their boss and his wife—triggering a ruthless chess match of persuasion and pressure among the two couples and the club’s owner, a Korean billionaire.
The awards-sweeping series—recognized at the Emmys, Golden Globes, and Critics Choice—returns with Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan as one couple, and Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny as the other. Youn Yuh-jung plays billionaire club owner Chairwoman Park, while Song Kang-ho portrays her second husband, Dr. Kim.
▲ GIRIGO
Overview Horror Netflix
Release Apr 24, 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Cast Jeon So-young, Kang Mi-na, Baek Sun-ho, Hyun Woo-seok, Lee Hyo-je
The YA horror series GIRIGO follows high schoolers cursed by a wish-granting app that foretells their sudden deaths—and their desperate fight to break the curse. It’s notably Netflix’s first-ever Korean YA horror series.
Built on a fresh premise—an app that grants wishes for the price of your life—the show tackles teen anxieties like friendships and family, academic pressure, and identity crises as students face an unknowable terror.
▲ Gold Land
Overview Drama Disney+
Release Apr 29, 2026
Cast Park Bo-young, Kim Sung-cheol, Lee Hyun-wook, Kim Hee-won, Moon Jung-hee, Lee Kwang-soo
Gold Land is a gleaming survival thriller about Hee-joo (Park Bo-young), who gets her hands on smuggled gold bars worth 150 billion KRW—and fights through a chaos of greed and betrayal to keep it all for herself.
Directed by Kim Sung-hoon of Confidential Assignment, Chief Detective 1958 with tightly wound genre craft, and written by Hwang Jo-yoon of Oldboy, Masquerade, Gold Land starts from raw, relatable desire and pushes characters to the brink—delivering razor-sharp immersion.