Kim Sook and Joo Woojae Took Home Awards. Now 'Doraiver' Is Back for Season 6.

Netflix's variety series Doraiver returns for a sixth season on August 8 at 11 a.m. KST, the platform confirmed on Thursday. The announcement comes just weeks after the show claimed two prizes at the 5th Blue Dragon Series Awards: cast member Kim Sook won Best Female Variety Entertainer and Joo Woojae took Best Male Variety Entertainer, giving the show a double win that marked a notable moment of institutional recognition for what began as a lightweight daily format.

Doraiver launched its first season in February of last year and has since expanded to five seasons, establishing itself as one of Netflix Korea's more consistent variety offerings. The show follows a fixed cast in a character-driven variety format built around sketches and games. The regular lineup includes broadcaster Hong Jin-kyung, comedians Kim Sook and Jo Se-ho, model Joo Woojae, and singer Jang Woo-young of 2PM.

For the Season 6 premiere, the cast is working with a "magazine model" dress code, with each member expected to bring their own interpretation to the theme. It is a modest premise, but the show has built its audience on exactly that kind of low-stakes, personality-forward concept rather than high-production spectacle.

The Blue Dragon Series Awards, now in its fifth year, covers streaming and non-terrestrial content alongside traditional broadcasting, which means recognition there carries weight in a way that older awards bodies, designed around broadcast ratings, do not always capture for platform-native programming. For a daily variety show distributed globally through Netflix, the two wins represent the kind of credibility marker that tends to follow a series into its next season's marketing.

Separately, SBS is launching a new variety program called Uri Dongne Jeonseongsidae (Our Neighborhood's Golden Age) on the same date, August 8, at 5:10 p.m. The show falls into the regional revitalization genre, which has found a steady audience on Korean terrestrial television in recent years. The format follows a cast visiting areas affected by population decline and working to restore neglected local spaces. Comedian Lee Kyung-kyu, singer Young Tak, broadcaster Din Din, and chef Lee Won-il make up the cast. Their first destination is Jinan County in North Jeolla Province, where they plan to renovate the long-abandoned Yongdam Lake Art Museum into a new community space.