While Korean series on Netflix are often defined by the romance titles in the steamer’s K-Content library, the thriller series on Netflix are some of the best. The Price of Confession is the latest mystery-thriller heading to the streamer’s library in 2025.
The Price of Confession joins The Glory, Somebody, and this year’s As You Stood By in the thriller category, but its take on murder and revenge takes a different path. The series is directed by Lee Jung-hyo and written by Kwon Jong-kwan. Although noted as a Netflix Original, the production is handled by Production H and Studio Dragon, with Netflix serving as the distributor.
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What is The Price of Confession about?
The new series follows Yun-su, a woman accused of murdering her husband, and Mo Eun, a mysterious woman called a witch, and their many secrets. With the new trailer, audiences get a closer look at the twists and turns they can expect from the upcoming series.
The trailer showcases a distraught Yun-su as she calls emergency services to help her husband, who lies bleeding next to her. However, when her behavior doesn’t align with the perfect example of a grieving widow, it begins to raise suspicion. She asks for a coffee during police questioning, she references CSI, and the more chilling thing is that she continues to smile throughout it all.
Still, Yun-su insists that she’s innocent, only to be sent to prison anyway. There, she meets Mo Eun, a woman feared as a witch, murderer, and psychopath. But when Mo Eun offers to confess that she killed Yun-su’s husband, there’s a price to pay.
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The Price of Confession is coming December 5, only on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/kr/title/81757813 A mystery thriller about Yun-su, a woman accused of murdering her husband, and Mo Eun, a mysterious woman called a witch, and the secrets between them.
The Price of Confession cast
- Jeon Do-yeon as Yun-su: A woman charged with her husband’s murder with secrets of her own. Watch actress Jeon in Kill Boksoon and Crash Course in Romance.
- Kim Go-eun as Mo Eun: The woman who offers Yun-su her confession in exchange for an act, and is feared to be a witch. Watch actress Kim in You and Everything Else and Little Women.
- Park Hae-soo as Baek Dong-hunt: The prosecutor. Watch actor Park in Squid Game, Karma, and Butterfly.
- Jin Sun-kyu as Jang Jeong-gu: Yun-su’s lawyer. Watch actor Jin in Aema and Space Sweepers.
What is the release date?
The Price of Confession will release exclusively on Netflix in the United States on December 5, 2025.
