The star-studded iQiyi Hallyu Season has officially arrived. In the last quarter of the year, iQiyi, leader of streaming entertainment in Asia, is set to release a series of major K-series and films. Starting from September, the K-series lineup includes Jirisan, Bad and Crazy, IDOL: The Coup, Yumi’s Cells, Let Me Be Your Night, The Man’s Voice, Melancholía, and Royal Secret Inspector Joy. Korean films include Midnight and Shark: The Beginning. The popular girl group reality show, Girls Planet 999 will conclude in October with 9 members to debut. Viewers worldwide can enjoy these K-shows on iQiyi International app or iQ.com.

Jirisan, the long-awaited iQiyi original K-series stars Gianna Jun and Ju Ji-hoon, and is created by director Lee Eung-bok (Descendants of The Sun, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God) and writer Kim Eun-hee (Signal, Kingdom). Jun and Ju team up with Sung Dong-il, Oh Jung-se, and Go Min-si to safeguard Korea’s highest peak. Nature’s tests will be revealed on October 23rd. 

Following an afterlife messenger, serial killer, and nine-tailed fox, Lee Dong-wook is delivering another great show. Bad and Crazy is a heroic series following a capable but bad guy (played by Lee Dong-wook) meeting a crazy but good guy (played by Wi Ha-jun). The director behind The Uncanny Counter produces this new drama with exciting and fascinating film-quality visuals, to debut in December.

In addition to Bad and Crazy, emerging actor Wi Ha-jun plays a serial killer in the new thriller Midnight, and targets a hearing-impaired girl played by Jin Ki-joo. The highjacking scene at the police station is inspired by a real incident in Korea in 2013. In Shark: The Beginning that is adapted from a webtoon series, Wi also plays a mixed-martial-arts champion to inspire Kim Min-seok, a school-bullying victim, to train himself up physically and confront internal fear.

In IDOL: The Coup, Kwak Si-yang plays the owner of an entertainment company, whose first female idol group has not gained traction after six years. Ahn Hee-yeon (or Hani in girl group EXID) is the lead member trying to save the idol group from termination. 

Available now is the Blue Dragon Film Award-winning Yumi’s Cells which follows what goes on in the mind and life of Kim Go-eun. When she meets a game developer played by Ahn Bo-hyun, this 30-something office worker finally starts thinking about love. Look out for appearances of Park Jin Young from GOT7 and Choi Min-ho from SHINee.

Let Me Be Your Night follows the lead singer of a popular idol band (played by Lee Jun-young) trying to overcome his sleepwalking condition with the help of a physician (played by Jung In-sun). Cast members include current idols Lee Jun-young of U-KISS, Kim Jong-hyun of NU’EST, Yoon Ji-sung of Wanna One, and Kim Dong-hyun from AB6IX. 

Ok Taec-yeon stars in a period drama for the first time in Inspector Joy with emerging actress Kim Hye-yoon. An accidental royal inspector and a wife seeking divorce are put together on a mission.

In Melancholía, Lim Soo-jung and Lee Do-hyeon are in a forbidden relationship on campus and their 16-year age difference results in great societal pressure. Following the completion of his military service, Choi Tae-joon stars in The Man’s Voice. He plays a first officer who leaves his cat in the care of Song Ji-eun who is able to communicate with cats after a lightning strike. A romance full of fantasy blossoms between them.