The Price of Confession: Release Date Revealed, Cast Unmasked, Plot Twists Teased — Your Complete Guide
Among late 2025’s most buzzed-about K-drama thrillers, Netflix’s The Price of Confession promises a razor-edged tale where innocence blurs, guilt bites back, and freedom demands dangerous bargains.
Netflix has a late-2025 K-drama that is very much Not Light Viewing. The Price of Confession looks like a prison-set moral knot: innocence vs. guilt, truth vs. survival, and the kind of deal you make only when the justice system leaves you hanging.
When it drops
The Price of Confession premieres globally on Netflix on December 5, 2025. All 12 episodes land the same day, each running about 60 minutes. It is built for a weekend binge, but heads-up: it carries an 18+ rating for violence and profanity (per MyDramaList).
Who is making it
The series is written by Kwon Jong-kwan (Proof of Innocence) and directed by Lee Jeong-hyo (Doona!, Crash Landing on You). It is produced by Studio Dragon and Studio H, with Netflix holding global distribution.
Who is in it
- Jeon Do-yeon as Ahn Yoon-soo: an art teacher whose life implodes after her husband is murdered and she lands as the prime suspect
- Kim Go-eun as Mo-eun: a mysterious inmate nicknamed a 'witch' for how precisely she reads people, and the architect of a very dangerous bargain
- Park Hae-soo as Baek Dong-hun: a determined prosecutor pushing through a maze of lies and misdirection
- Jin Seon-kyu as Jang Jung-gu: Yoon-soo's lawyer, a former boxer who comes out swinging for her defense
- Plus supporting roles for Choi Young-joon (Vincenzo), Nam Da-reum (Beautiful World), and Kim Joong-don (Korea-Khitan War)
What it is about
It starts with a murder: Ahn Yoon-soo's husband is killed, and she becomes the primary suspect. Her world shrinks to a cell, public scorn, and a case that seems engineered to bury her.
Inside, Yoon-soo crosses paths with Mo-eun, an inmate with a reputation for cutting through facades. As teased in the trailer, Mo-eun offers a cold-blooded proposal: she will confess to the murder if Yoon-soo agrees to commit one herself. It is the kind of twisty, stomach-dropping setup that flips the usual whodunit into a bleak negotiation.
Meanwhile, on the outside, prosecutor Baek Dong-hun and defense attorney Jang Jung-gu grind away at the same knot from opposite angles, both convinced there is a real truth under the layers of fear, bargaining, and lies.
Why this one stands out
This is aiming for something thornier than a standard crime thriller. Expect heavy themes: justice that does not protect the innocent, psychological manipulation as survival, and how far someone will go when every official door is bolted shut. It is already being tagged as one of the most anticipated K-drama thrillers of late 2025, and the premise earns it.