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Some weeks in the K-drama calendar drift by quietly. This is not one of them. Between July 20 and 26, streaming platforms are throwing a little bit of everything at viewers at once: a long awaited comeback, a slow burn romance, two series finales, and a supernatural mystery that just keeps building. If you have been putting off starting something new, this is either the best or the worst week to do it, depending on how much sleep you are willing to sacrifice. Here is what is actually happening across Disney+ and Netflix this week, and why each of these shows is worth your attention.
The show fans have been waiting on all year finally returns on July 22, when A Shop for Killers Season 2 picks up right where its predecessor left off. If you remember how season one ended, you will know that things were nowhere near settled, and this new run wastes no time getting back into the chaos. Jinman fights to reclaim the position he lost, while Jian steps into a far more dangerous role as the new head of Murthehelp. Together, this uncle and niece pairing turns from survivors into aggressors, taking the fight straight to Babylon, the shadowy organisation that has been hunting them since the beginning.
Lee Dong Wook and Kim Hye Joon are both back in the roles that earned the first season so much praise, and they are joined by a handful of new faces this time around, which should give the story some fresh territory to explore.
Not everything landing this week involves assassins and secret organisations. On July 25, Love on the Menu offers something gentler, trading fight scenes for the kind of slow, aching romance that unfolds over shared meals. Ha Seok Jin and Hani play former lovers who find themselves face to face again, eight years after a breakup that clearly never fully healed. Set against the backdrop of family run food businesses, the show leans into themes of forgiveness, second chances, and the strange way food has of bringing people back together even when words fail.
For fans who have been following Agent Kim Reactivated all year, the ride ends this week. The final episode drops on Netflix on July 25, closing out what has been one of 2026's more talked about action dramas. So Ji Sub plays a former intelligence operative pulled back into a world of violence after his daughter goes missing, and the show has built its reputation on balancing that raw, personal fear with genuinely tense, high stakes action. However this one wraps up, it has clearly earned its send off.
Disney+ is closing out Love in Sync in a hurry, releasing episode seven on July 25 and the series finale the very next day on July 26. Kim Myung Soo and Kang Min Ah lead the show as an actress and a psychological counsellor whose connection seems to defy easy explanation, quietly reshaping both their personal lives and their careers as the series has gone on. Two episodes in two days is a lot to ask of viewers, but for anyone already invested, it is probably a welcome kind of exhausting.
Meanwhile, Netflix is keeping Spooky in Love's momentum going with episodes three and four, arriving July 25 and July 26. Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong lead this offbeat mix of ghost story, murder investigation and romance, a combination that should not work nearly as well as it does. Each new episode has reportedly pulled more viewers in, and this midweek double release looks set to keep that streak alive.