Made in Korea returns to Disney+ and Hulu on September 9 for a second and final season, picking up nine years after the events that closed out its first run. The six-episode season releases two episodes a week through September 23, with Hyun Bin, Jung Woo-sung and Woo Do-hwan all back.
The first season, which premiered last December, became Disney+’s most-watched Korean original of 2025, and Disney renewed it a month before it debuted. That confidence bought the show a conclusion on its own terms rather than an open-ended cliffhanger.
Nine Years Later
Season 2 finds Baek Ki-tae, Hyun Bin’s KCIA operative, installed as the agency’s deputy director after framing prosecutor Jang Geon-young at the end of Season 1. His wealth and influence have grown along with the drug operations he runs across the region, and the country around him is sliding into political turmoil. Jung Woo-sung’s Geon-young, who has spent the intervening years preparing, comes out of the shadows to finish a revenge plot nearly a decade in the making.
Director Woo Min-ho told Variety the time jump was deliberate, calling nine years a long enough stretch to change people significantly. Hyun Bin described Ki-tae as a man whose methods have shifted as he climbed, with money and status reshaping how he treats the people around him.
The Brothers Turn On Each Other
The central conflict this season is not the prosecutor. It is the widening gap between Ki-tae and his younger brother, Baek Ki-hyun, played by Woo Do-hwan. Ki-hyun was the timid recruit of Season 1 and has since risen through the military ranks, and the two brothers now find themselves on opposite sides. Woo Min-ho said the structure has changed with the story: where Season 1 treated each episode as a standalone film built around a different event, Season 2’s six episodes run as one continuous arc.
That shift changes how the season plays. The first run could reset between episodes, with a hijacking one week and an illegal operation the next. The finale format means every hour now feeds the same confrontation, and the two-a-week release pattern is designed to keep the pressure on rather than let it dissipate over a month and a half.
Creative Team
Park Eun-kyo, whose credits include The Silent Sea and Mother, returns as writer, and Woo Min-ho directs again after helming the first season. The cast also includes Seo Eun-soo and Won Ji-an. Made in Korea is set against the real Korean Central Intelligence Agency, an institution whose role in modern Korean politics gives the fiction its weight, and the series has leaned on that history from the start.
The premiere opens a fall stretch of Hulu on Disney+ programming that continues with Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween in October. Made in Korea Season 2 premieres September 9 with two episodes, followed by two more each week until the finale on September 23.
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