Good things are happening with Can This Love Be Translated, starring Kim Seon-Ho and Go Youn-Jung. The new K-romance has managed to reach No. 2 on Netflix's Global Top 10 TV Shows (Non-English) chart just
days after its premiere on January 16. Infact, the show is being called the first K-drama success of the year after it topped charts in 18 countries including South Korea and Brazil. It garnered 4 million views in cumulative views (total viewing hours divided by the show's total running time) and 53.2 million hours watched in three days of its release, in its debut week alone. Interestingly, Emraan Hashmi web show Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web: Season 1 currently stands at No 1 with 5.4 million views.
Can This Love Be Translated soars on Netflix
Also starring Sota Fukushi, Choi Woo-Sung, and Lee Yi-Dam,
Can This Love Be Translated is winning hearts for breaking the cliched K-drama template, touching upon themes like language barrier in love, mental issues and healing.
Can This Love Be Translated follows the story of Joo Ho-jin (Kim Seon-Ho), a skilled multilingual interpreter who has built his life around translating others’ words while keeping his own feelings carefully in check. When he’s assigned to work with Cha Mu-Hee (Go Youn-Jung), a global movie star whose rising fame brings both adoration and pressure, their professional dynamic starts to shift.The show is gaining momentum by the day with fans raving about the leads' chemistry in tender hugs, playful banter, and heartfelt moments. Many have already dubbed , dubbing Seonho and Younjung couple of the year.
Fans react to Can This Love Be Translated
Netizens posted their reviews on X (formerly Twitter). One user wrote, "love is not about finally finding someone compatible enough to interpret you but about beginning to face your own heart through collisions with another soul, offering up your heart in its raw, untranslated form." Another one added, "#CanThisLoveBeTranslated feels like a warm hug to the heart.The story, the visuals, the chemistry, It’s soft, thoughtful, and painfully beautiful. They feel like two souls drawn perfectly for each other, like everything they held back finally found its way out."
Can This Love Be Translated is being touted as a career-defining project for both Seonho and Younjung. Even K-pop idols like ENHYPEN's Sunoo and RIIZE's Wonbin have shared their adulation for the 12-episode series.
Why is Taskaree No 1?
Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi, who's been having a good run on the screens following his recent hit film Haq, co-starring Yami Gautam, and his small yet memorable role in Aryan Khan's directorial debut The Ba***ds of Bollywood is back to being a fan-favourite. His turn as Arjun Meena, Superintendent of Customs at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in
Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web explores a side to him that we have barely seen beyond his romantic roles Though in the past few years, Emraan seems to be making a conscious effort at breaking out from his "serial kisser" image and take up for performance oriented role.
Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web released on January 14. As of January 22, been viewed for 29.4 million hours.