{"id":527037,"date":"2026-07-01T04:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527037\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:53:12","slug":"disneys-a-shop-for-killers-sets-season-2-premiere-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527037\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+&#8217;s A Shop for Killers Sets Season 2 Premiere Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney_1\" data-tag=\"disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+<\/a> has set a launch date for the second season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/a-shop-for-killers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a-shop-for-killers_1\" data-tag=\"a-shop-for-killers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Shop for Killers<\/a>, one of its biggest Korean streaming hits. The slick assassin thriller will bow on July 22, picking up with Jeong Ji-an (Kim Hye-jun) installed as the new head of Murthehelp, the online storefront that secretly arms killers, and her uncle Jeong Jin-man (Lee Dong-wook), who faked his death in the first season to flush out his enemies, back at her side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTogether they will go on the offensive against Babylon, the mercenary outfit that hunted Ji-an through the first season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut Babylon is also regrouping by importing a fresh wave of assassins from overseas \u2014 two of them played by Japanese stars new to the cast: Hyunri (Pachinko) as the team leader Q, and Masaki Okada (Drive My Car) as the mercenary J.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLee Kwon, who directed the first season, which was well regarded by global critics, has returned to direct and co-wrote the new batch of episodes with Ji Ho-jin.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SA1S09494\ubcf4\uc815-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"577\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\u2018A Shop for Killers\u2019 Season 2<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA Shop for Killers ranked as Disney+\u2019s most-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/asia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_asia_1\" data-tag=\"asia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asia<\/a> Pacific original of 2024, until the Korean series Light Shop overtook it that December. The new season runs eight episodes, premiering with two on July 22 and adding a pair each Wednesday through the August 12 finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe series is part of a run of K-drama second seasons Disney+ has in the works this year. Made in Korea, the 1970s crime drama led by Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung, returns for a second season in the second half of the year, and a follow-up to the 2023 superhero hit Moving is in production. The streamer has also greenlit a high-profile Korean remake of the hit FX series The Americans, with local A-list stars Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min set to play a North Korean spy couple undercover in Seoul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA Shop for Killers streams on Disney+ internationally and on Hulu in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney+ has set a launch date for the second season of A Shop for Killers, one of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[224318,576,9618,93,61,1042,60,282],"class_list":["post-527037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-a-shop-for-killers","tag-asia","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}