Don’t Miss Walking on Thin Ice Episode 9: Release Date, Exact Time, and Where to Watch
The crime thriller Walking on Thin Ice drops Episode 9 on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 9:20 PM KST on KBS2, with international streams rolling out shortly after on Coupang Play, Wavve, Viki, and Kocowa where available.
Episode 9 of Walking on Thin Ice is almost here, and the show is leaning harder into its messy, moral knot. If you have been watching for Lee Young Ae or just because you like your thrillers with a stomach drop, this one is lining up to sting.
When and where to watch
Episode 9 airs Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM KST on KBS2 in South Korea. For everyone outside Korea, the episode typically pops up shortly after broadcast on Coupang Play, Wavve, Rakuten Viki, and Kocowa, depending on your region and those always-fun licensing rights.
KBS2 runs the show every Saturday and Sunday at 9:20 PM KST. Streaming will require a paid subscription. Expect HD across platforms, and Viki usually has subtitles in multiple languages, including English. Availability can shift by country; a VPN may help if your local catalog is missing it.
Global timing at a glance
- South Korea (KST): 9:20 PM (broadcast)
- United States (EDT): 11:00 AM
- United States (PDT): 8:00 AM
- United Kingdom (BST): 3:00 PM
- Europe (CEST): 4:00 PM
- India (IST): 8:30 PM
- Australia (AEST): 1:00 AM on October 19
Streaming upload times can vary a bit, so your app might show it a little later than the broadcast.
What the show is doing (and why it works)
Walking on Thin Ice is a crime thriller about Kang Eun-soo, an ordinary housewife who slides into drug dealing to save her terminally ill husband, Bae Soo-bin. That desperation pivot is the fuse, and the show spends its time watching the burn.
Early episodes reintroduced Lee Young Ae to primetime as Eun-soo and sketched out Lee Kyung, an art teacher with a side gig as a secret drug dealer. On the other side, Detective Jang Tae Gu keeps closing the distance. The tension is less about big twists and more about how each lie poisons the next decision, which is fun in that agonizing, 'oh no, do not do that' way.
Episode 9: what to expect
This is the ninth of 12 episodes in Season 1, with a runtime around 1 hour and 10 minutes. Coming out of the last episode, Eun-soo's off-the-books dealings put her squarely on Tae Gu's radar. With him inching closer to the truth, Episode 9 is set up for confrontations and fallout, the kind where right and wrong blur and everyone pays for older choices. In short: the bill is due.
Credits and the folks steering the ship
The series is written by Jeon Young-shin and directed by Song Hyun-wook, with production by Baram Pictures and Slingshot Studio.