Netflix releases Korean originals at 5:00 PM KST, which is 4:00 AM ET / 1:00 AM PT in the United States today (the time it standardised on in late March 2026).
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How Netflix releases episodes
Netflix Korea standardised the release time of its Korean originals to 17:00 KST in late March 2026; before that the drop followed midnight US Pacific, which falls at a different KST time depending on US daylight saving. A Netflix original goes live worldwide at that single moment, so the US release is the same instant rather than a separate posting. Series that simulcast a Korean broadcast instead appear at the moment the episode airs in Korea.
Co-productions that are not Netflix Korea originals keep their own announced time — Your Personal Taxi, for example, drops at 8:00 PM KST.
Netflix publishes English subtitles at the moment an episode goes live.
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Source: Kukmin Ilbo. We never guess a release time: where a platform has confirmed one we show it, where we have measured a pattern we label it Expected, and where we know neither we say so. See today's releases, the weekly calendar, or upcoming premieres.