‘Nine to Six’ sets a November 25 premiere on SBS and Prime Video

The SBS office romance “Nine to Six” will premiere on November 25, airing at 9 p.m. KST, the network confirmed. The series will stream internationally on Amazon Prime Video, which is carrying it across more than 240 countries and territories, and it revives SBS’s Wednesday–Thursday drama slot after a stretch without a title in it.

The drama runs as a standard Korean broadcast season — 12 episodes, airing twice a week through the end of December — and is adapted from the 2021 Chinese series “The Rational Life.” That source material gives it a built-in structure: a workplace story that uses the office as the setting for a slow-building romance.

The leads

Park Min Young plays Kang Yi Ji, a deputy manager on the legal team at a car company, written as a sharp, work-first professional who approaches her job through pure logic. Yook Sungjae plays Han Sun-woo, a legal intern described as someone who would rather be designing jewelry and who trusts his instincts over the rulebook — a deliberate contrast to Yi Ji’s precision. Go Soo rounds out the main cast as an executive director at the company, returning to the romance genre after a long absence from it.

The pairing of a rigidly rational lead with a more intuitive counterpart is a familiar engine for office rom-coms, and the early promotional material has leaned into the contrast between the two. Park, in particular, arrives with a track record in the genre that the network is clearly counting on.

Why the slot matters

The detail that “Nine to Six” reopens SBS’s midweek drama block is more significant than it might sound. Broadcast slots are scheduling decisions a network makes carefully, and choosing a lighthearted workplace romance to relaunch a dormant one signals the kind of show SBS wants anchoring that night: accessible, episodic and easy to drop into.

The Prime Video arrangement is the other half of the story. A Korean broadcast drama that goes out to a global streaming audience the same week it airs at home is now a standard model, and it changes the stakes of a premiere. The show is not only competing for a domestic Wednesday–Thursday audience; it is launching into a worldwide catalog where it has to stand out among everything else a subscriber could choose.

For viewers outside Korea, the practical note is simple: the show is easy to find, it arrives on a fixed weekly schedule rather than as a single binge, and it is built to be sampled an episode at a time. “Nine to Six” begins on November 25.