Will there be season 2 of Can This Love Be Translated? Netflix renewal latest
Can This Love Be Translated? has been a hit with audiences on Netflix 💕📺
- Can This Love Be Translated? released on Netflix this month.
- The Korean romantic comedy came out on January 16.
- But can viewers expect more episodes in the future?
The weather might have been miserable so far in 2026, but it has made for the best excuse to stay inside and binge watch shows on Netflix. One that has gone down particularly well so far has been the streamers latest Korean romantic comedy - Can This Love Be Translated?
Landing on the platform on Friday, January 16, you might have already devoured the 12 episodes and reached the end. It is the latest export from South Korea and was in the top 10 for non-English language shows over the last week.
But is the show now over or will it be back for more episodes? Here’s all you need to know:
What is Can This Love Be Translated? about?
In a preview for the show, Netflix’s Tudum website teases: “Joo Ho-jin (Kim Seon-ho) is a polyglot interpreter who has built his life around linguistic precision while avoiding emotional vulnerability. Living in his grandfather’s book-filled house, he takes the same trip to Japan every year — ostensibly for work, but really to dwell on his unrequited feelings for Ji-sun (Lee E-dam), who’s now about to marry his half-brother Jin-suk.
“Everything shifts when Ho-jin takes on an interpreting job for Romantic Trip, a reality show with an unusual premise: it pairs two actors who share no common language, one from Korea and one from Japan, and sends them to romantic destinations around the world to see if love can bloom through real-time translation.”
It continues: “On set, he’s reunited with Cha Mu-hee (Go Youn-jung), an actor he met during a chance encounter in Japan months earlier. She takes part in the reality show’s dating experiment, along with Japanese actor Hiro Kurosawa (Sota Fukushi).
“When Mu-hee and Ho-jin first met in Japan, Mu-hee was an unknown actor. But after landing a breakout role as the killer zombie Do Ra-mi in the horror film The Quiet Woman, an on-set accident left her unconscious for six months.
“She woke to discover she’d become an international sensation, but fame has come at a terrifying price. She often experiences hallucinations in which the character she is playing takes her to a creepy house inside her mind.
“As Ho-jin interprets conversations between Mu-hee and Hiro on Romantic Trip, an uncomfortable truth emerges: Mu-hee and Ho-jin are falling for each other. Every romantic line he translates from Hiro to Mu-hee becomes harder to deliver.”
Netflix adds: “And thus Can This Love Be Translated’s central tension crystallizes: Ho-jin can flawlessly interpret between Korean, Japanese, English, and Italian, but he and Mu-hee, both native Korean speakers, constantly misunderstand each other. Ho-jin remarks that each person has a language of their own, and Mu-hee’s words are the most difficult language he has ever encountered.”
When did Can This Love Be Translated? release on Netflix?
Unlike some other Korean shows, the programme is a Netflix original - and not just picked up for international broadcast. As a result, the full series dropped in one go on the streaming service.
Can This Love Be Translated? dropped all 12 episodes on Netflix on Friday, January 16. Runtimes range from just under an hour to more than 80 minutes.
Who is in the cast of Can This Love Be Translated?
- Kim Seon-ho as Joo Ho-jin
- Go Youn-jung as Cha Mu-hee / Do Ra-mi
- Sota Fukushi as Hiro Kurosawa
- Choi Woo-sung as Kim Yong-u
- Lee Yi-dam as Shin Ji-seon
Will there be a second series of Can This Love Be Translated?
Compared to American or British TV, Korean shows more often than not are intended as just one season. However, that has changed in recent years - with shows like Squid Game, Hospital Playlist, Sweet Home, all having two or more seasons.
Netflix has yet to announce whether there will be a second series of the K-drama. The show did, however, leave a few narrative threads open, leaving the possibility of more.
For example, it is not known if Mu-hee actually ends up finding and meeting her mother - it was left amphibious. Although the season did end up with Mu-Hee and Ho-jin reuniting at the observatory.
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