Kim Seon-ho (L) as Joo Ho-jin and Go Youn-jung as Cha Mu-hee/Do Ra-mi in “Can This Love Be Translated?” Photo courtesy of No Ju-han/Netflix
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Yonhap) — The romantic comedy Can This Love Be Translated? topped Netflix’s weekly non-English series chart, the streaming giant said Wednesday.
The 12-part series garnered 9 million views for the week ending Jan. 25, climbing from last week’s No. 2 spot and outperforming the runner-up, Korean dating reality show Single’s Inferno: Season 5, which recorded 4.5 million views.
Starring Kim Seon-ho and Go Youn-jung, the series centers on the budding romance between Cha Mu-hee (Go), an actress who catapulted to global fame overnight, and Ju Ho-jin (Kim), a multilingual translator fluent in six languages, including Italian, English and Japanese, yet struggling to comprehend the language of emotions.
It is written by Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran, who use Hong Sisters as their collective pen name and have numerous hit series, including Master’s Sun (2013), Hotel del Luna (2019) and Alchemy of Souls (2022-23).
Two additional Korean series made the Top 10 list, with SBS TV’s romantic drama No Tail to Tell at No. 5 and tvN’s office drama Undercover Miss Hong at No. 6, with 2 million and 1.9 million views respectively.
