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Siren’s Kiss Release Schedule, Episode Dates, Times and Recap: Prime Video K-Drama Guide

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Park Min-young wearing an elegant white lace dress, sitting pensively in front of a large dark painting in Siren's Kiss.

Siren’s Kiss is already one of the most talked-about K-Dramas of 2026, and for good reason. Starring Park Min-young and Wi Ha-joon in a tense romantic thriller built around art fraud, mysterious deaths, and a dangerously blurred line between investigator and suspect, it is the kind of show that makes waiting a week between episodes genuinely painful. If you need to know exactly when each episode drops so you can plan accordingly, here is the full breakdown.

Siren’s Kiss: Key Details at a Glance

DetailInformation
Series TitleSiren’s Kiss
Streaming PlatformPrime Video (international) / tvN (South Korea)
Premiere DateMarch 2, 2026
Finale DateApril 7, 2026
Total Episodes12
Episode LengthApproximately 60 to 80 minutes
Release PatternTwo episodes per week, every Monday and Tuesday
DirectorKim Chul-gyu (Flower of Evil, 2020)
WriterLee Young
CreatorCho Hyun-kyung
ProductionStudio Dragon and Cape E&A
Based OnKoori no Sekai (1999 Japanese series by Hisashi Nozawa)

Where to Watch Siren’s Kiss

You can watch Siren’s Kiss internationally on Prime Video, subject to regional availability, including in India where the series is confirmed available. In South Korea, the series airs on tvN at 8:50 PM KST. For international viewers, new episodes land on Prime Video earlier in the day based on your time zone. The international release times for each new episode are as follows:

Time ZoneRelease Time
Eastern Time (ET)Approximately 6:30 AM ET
Greenwich Mean Time (UK)1:30 PM GMT
Central European Time2:30 PM CET
India Standard Time7:00 PM IST
Brazil10:30 AM
Australia12:30 AM (following day)
New Zealand2:30 AM (following day)

Please note: that release times on Prime Video can vary slightly by region and episode, so it is worth checking your local Prime Video listing if the episode has not appeared at the expected time. It is also worth noting that Siren’s Kiss follows the Korean broadcast schedule rather than Prime Video’s usual global simultaneous release pattern, which is why the staggered two-episode-per-week structure applies rather than a full series drop. Each episode comes with English subtitles available from the time of release, along with dubbing in multiple languages.

Full Siren’s Kiss Episode Release Schedule

EpisodeRelease DateStatus
Episode 1March 2, 2026Available now
Episode 2March 3, 2026Available now
Episode 3March 9, 2026Upcoming
Episode 4March 10, 2026Upcoming
Episode 5March 16, 2026Upcoming
Episode 6March 17, 2026Upcoming
Episode 7March 23, 2026Upcoming
Episode 8March 24, 2026Upcoming
Episode 9March 30, 2026Upcoming
Episode 10March 31, 2026Upcoming
Episode 11April 6, 2026Upcoming
Episode 12 (Finale)April 7, 2026Upcoming

Story Overview: What Is Siren’s Kiss About?

Siren’s Kiss is based on the 1999 Japanese series Koori no Sekai by Hisashi Nozawa and blends high-stakes romance with psychological suspense in a way that feels genuinely fresh for the K-Drama genre. At its centre is a classic cat-and-mouse setup, however the show immediately complicates that dynamic by making it impossible to tell who is truly the hunter and who is the prey.

Han Seol-ah (Park Min-young) is the chief auctioneer at Royal Auction, South Korea’s most prestigious art auction house. Elegant, composed, and commanding in every room she walks into, she is respected across the art world. However, a deeply unsettling pattern surrounds her: every man who has ever been romantically involved with her has died under mysterious circumstances. She is either the most unlucky woman alive or something far more dangerous.

Cha Woo-seok (Wi Ha-joon) is a top investigator in the Insurance Fraud Investigation Unit, with a record-breaking career built on sharp instincts and an almost obsessive dedication to justice. His path into this case is deeply personal. His sister died in an accident, and her boyfriend, who was also the beneficiary of her life insurance policy, was never prosecuted despite Woo-seok’s suspicions. That unresolved grief drives everything he does.

When a suspicious pattern of insurance claims leads him directly to Seol-ah, what begins as a professional investigation gradually pulls him into something far more complicated. As the two are forced into closer proximity, attraction begins to surface beneath the suspicion. The central question the show poses is deceptively simple: is Seol-ah a calculating killer, a victim being framed, or something the audience has not yet been given enough information to understand?

Director Kim Chul-gyu, known for the critically acclaimed Flower of Evil (2020), described the series as one where tension never lets up from the opening scene to the closing of the final episode, with fresh storytelling and striking visual composition throughout. Early audience reception has been strong, with the series drawing approximately 4.6% Nielsen ratings in its opening week and earning praise from critics for its slow-burn tension and confident pacing.

Cast of Siren’s Kiss

ActorCharacter
Park Min-youngHan Seol-ah
Wi Ha-joonCha Woo-seok
Kim Jung-hyunBaek Jun-beom
Han Joon-wooDo Eun-hyuk
Gong Sung-haKong Ju-yeong
Lee ElijahKim Yun-ji
Ha Seok-jinYun Seung-jae
Hong Ki-joonPyo Seong-il
Yoon Jong-hoonChoi Yeong-ho
Kim Dong-junLee Su-ho

Park Min-young is best known internationally for Marry My Husband (2024), while Wi Ha-joon gained global recognition through Squid Game (2021 to 2025). Speaking about the project, Min-young described the series as a blend of mystery and melodrama, noting that she joined because she was confident she could bring an intensity to the role that matched the physical demands Ha-joon brings to his. Ha-joon himself revealed that he had initially been looking for something lighter, however the script pulled him in so completely that he simply had to do it.

Episodes 1 and 2 Recap: The Story So Far

โš ๏ธ Spoiler Warning: The following section contains full spoilers for Episodes 1 and 2 of Siren’s Kiss only. If you have not yet watched these episodes and wish to go in fresh, skip ahead to the next section.

Siren’s Kiss Episode 1

Siren’s Kiss opens with an immediately arresting scene: a factory worker deliberately injures himself with machinery while another man calmly prepares nearby paperwork. The injury is part of an organised insurance fraud scheme in which workers are paid to harm themselves so that organisers can collect large payouts. It is a bleak and effective way to establish the world Woo-seok operates in.

Woo-seok tracks down one of the men connected to the scheme and confronts him before the suspect is arrested. Shortly after, he visits a hospital where a young girl named Chae-rin has been admitted with severe burns. She claims the injury was accidental, however Woo-seok suspects her mother deliberately harmed her to collect insurance money. It is a scene that quietly reinforces just how far people will go for financial gain, and how attuned Woo-seok has become to spotting deception.

The episode then introduces Han Seol-ah at work, where she examines artwork before a major auction and unhesitatingly slashes a painting she identifies as a forgery. She is clearly someone who does not tolerate dishonesty in her professional world, which makes the cloud of suspicion surrounding her personal life all the more intriguing.

At the auction, a valuable painting titled Universe is sold to wealthy buyer Baek Jun-beom. However, tension simmers beneath the surface between Seol-ah and her colleague Kim Yun-ji, who believes she deserves more recognition and hints that she knows a damaging secret about Seol-ah.

Yun-ji later contacts Woo-seok and claims to have information about a murder connected to an insurance payout, arranging to meet him with the details. However, just as Woo-seok arrives, Yun-ji is attacked inside the building and falls from the roof to her death. Investigators later confirm she was grabbed before falling, establishing her death as murder rather than an accident.

Woo-seok begins looking deeper into Seol-ah’s background and discovers that her fiancรฉ, Yun Seung-jae, recently died, and that she had a substantial life insurance policy on him that was cancelled before his death. He approaches Seol-ah directly and questions her, but she remains completely composed and brushes him off without giving anything away. The episode closes with a flashback to the night of Yun-ji’s death, showing Seol-ah standing on the balcony above. It is a closing image that raises far more questions than it answers.

Siren’s Kiss Episode 2

Episode 2 opens with a flashback showing Seol-ah being informed of Seung-jae’s death and travelling to a dock to identify his body. Back in the present, Woo-seok continues pressing Seol-ah about the cancelled insurance policy and the circumstances surrounding Seung-jae’s death, though their conversation is interrupted by a man named Do Eun-hyuk, who appears to be close to Seol-ah.

While investigating Yun-ji’s death, Woo-seok visits her home to deliver insurance documents to her mother. Seol-ah also arrives with Yun-ji’s belongings. Inside Yun-ji’s room, Woo-seok finds a business card belonging to Seung-jae, while Seol-ah separately notices a calendar containing Yun-ji’s daily schedule and quietly pockets it without drawing attention to herself. It is a small moment, however it lands with significant weight given everything that surrounds it.

Woo-seok soon discovers that Seung-jae owned a restaurant that Yun-ji had visited shortly before his death, and that Seol-ah’s reaction to his passing had struck a responding officer as unusually flat. He then widens his investigation into Seol-ah’s past relationships and uncovers that a psychiatrist named Choi Yeong-ho had taken out a life insurance policy naming Seol-ah as the beneficiary. That policy was cancelled shortly before Yeong-ho died by suicide.

A nurse at the hospital where Yeong-ho worked adds another disturbing layer when she tells Woo-seok that Seol-ah had previously dated another man who later died during a terror attack in Syria. The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore.

By the end of the episode, Woo-seok confronts Seol-ah directly and lays out everything he has found: multiple men connected to her have died under deeply unusual circumstances. Seol-ah responds with complete calm and asks him who he thinks will fall for her next. It is the kind of line that stops an episode cold in the best possible way, and it perfectly encapsulates why Siren’s Kiss is so difficult to look away from. Whether Seol-ah is genuinely dangerous, knowingly provocative, or something else entirely remains completely open heading into Episodes 3 and 4, which arrive on March 9 and 10 respectively.


What to Expect Going Forward

New episodes of Siren’s Kiss continue to drop every Monday and Tuesday on Prime Video through to the Series Finale on April 7, 2026. With the investigation into Seol-ah’s past well underway and the tension between the two leads already running high by the end of Episode 2, the weeks ahead are shaping up to be very compelling viewing indeed.

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