Disney+ added another buzzy K-drama title on Thursday to its steadily expanding slate of originals from East Asia.
The streamer announced the launch of principal photography on The Miracles of the Namiya General Store, a Korean-language series adaptation of Japanese author Keigo Higashino’s 2012 bestseller, which has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide. The series is set for a global Disney+ launch in 2027.
A time-bending fantasy about three petty criminals who hide out in a derelict general store after a botched heist, only to begin receiving letters seeking advice from strangers writing from decades in the past, the novel has been adapted twice before for the screen — by Ryuichi Hiroki for a 2017 Japanese feature, and by Han Jie that same year for a Chinese-language version starring Jackie Chan as the kindly shop owner.
Ryu Seung-ryong will headline the new Korean series as Go Min-joong, the elderly shop owner whose replies to mysterious letters set off a chain of connections across decades. The role is the actor’s third major Disney+ collaboration, following his star turn in 2023 superhero thriller Moving — the streamer’s biggest Korean original to date — and the 1970s crime caper Low Life, currently streaming.
The trio of young thieves at the story’s center will be played by rising newcomers Kang You-seok (Resident Playbook), Park Jung-woo (20th Century Girl) and Kim Seong-jeong (The Woodcutter and the Fairy). The supporting ensemble is studded with popular Korean drama talent, including Kim Hye-yoon (Lovely Runner), Moon Sang-min (Pavane) and Lee Chae-min (Bon Appétit, Your Majesty), with reported special appearances coming from Yum Jung-ah, Yeom Hye-ran, Jung Chae-yeon and Jang Dong-yoon.
Park Young-ju, known for her 2024 true-crime hit Citizen of a Kind — a comedic underdog thriller starring Ra Mi-ran as a real-life laundromat owner who took down a voice-phishing scam ring — both directs and wrote the adapted scripts. The series is produced by The Lamp, the Korean shingle behind Jang Hoon’s contemporary classic A Taxi Driver.
The pickup comes amid a renewed push by Disney+ to begin to close the K-drama gap with Netflix, which has spent the better part of a decade locking down output deals with Korea’s leading studios and turning the country into one of its most important content engines.
Last November’s Disney+ Originals Preview event in Hong Kong unveiled a sprawling 2026 lineup headlined by Made in Korea — the prestige period crime drama starring Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung that the streamer renewed for a second season before the first had even aired — alongside the IU and Byeon Woo-seok royal romance Perfect Crown, crime-action thriller Gold Land (Park Bo-young, Kim Sung-cheol), supernatural webtoon adaptation Portraits of Delusion (Suzy, Kim Seon-ho), epic fantasy The Remarried Empress (Shin Min-a, Ju Ji-hoon, Lee Se-young, Lee Jong-suk) and a second season of action-thriller A Shop for Killers. The company more recently unveiled plans for a tentpole Korean remake of the award-winning FX series The Americans, as well as an expanded Korean esports streaming partnership.
