Can This Love Be Translated? (2026) [+]
Apr 08 2026
Can This Love Be Translated? is a South Korean romance series running 12 hour-long episodes.
In a touristy town in Korea translator Joo Jo-jin (Kim Seon-ho, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha - 2021) ends up helping Cha Mu-hee (Go Youn-jung, Alchemy of Souls p2 - 2023) confront a Japanese ramen shop owner who is having an affair with her boyfriend though it turns out Mu-hee was the other woman.
Years pass and now Cha Mu-hee has is filming, starring in a horror film. Joo Jo-jin is in town and thinks about visiting her but Mu-hee gets into an accident and ends up in a coma. A few months later she wakes up having become famous for her role in the film (and because she was in a coma) as the zombie killer (a killer who is a zombie) Do Ra-mi.
With her new-found fame Cha Mu-hee is recruited into a reality romance show shot in multiple countries and her counterpart is Japanese relatively famous actor Hiro Kurosawa (Fukushi Sota) who actually doesn't think much of Mu-hee seeing her as a B-list actor. Naturally with multiple countries and two co-stars who can't talk to each other they need an interpreter and it turns out to be Joo Jo-jin.
There is a slow romance that develops between Jo-jin and Mu-hee but it's kind of mostly on Mu-hee's side because he is very matter of fact yet very private and doesn't say what he actually feels. There's also Hiro Kurosawa as a possible love interest but that never seems credible. Neither is the other love rival, one of the show producers, Shin Ji-seon (Lee E-dam) who is Jo-jin's fiancée but secretly she and Jo-jin have sort of been in love without the other knowing it.
Half way through the series I really like this complication: turns out Mu-hee has a split personality. Do Ra-mi is her assertive and crazy side willing to do the things she's afraid to do. Once Joo Jo-jin finds out he tries to help Do Ra-mi (or is a blackmailed a bit to spend time with her) and meanwhile Mu-hee doesn't remember. It's an interesting twist.
Overall a fairly nice romantic series.
In a touristy town in Korea translator Joo Jo-jin (Kim Seon-ho, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha - 2021) ends up helping Cha Mu-hee (Go Youn-jung, Alchemy of Souls p2 - 2023) confront a Japanese ramen shop owner who is having an affair with her boyfriend though it turns out Mu-hee was the other woman.
Years pass and now Cha Mu-hee has is filming, starring in a horror film. Joo Jo-jin is in town and thinks about visiting her but Mu-hee gets into an accident and ends up in a coma. A few months later she wakes up having become famous for her role in the film (and because she was in a coma) as the zombie killer (a killer who is a zombie) Do Ra-mi.
With her new-found fame Cha Mu-hee is recruited into a reality romance show shot in multiple countries and her counterpart is Japanese relatively famous actor Hiro Kurosawa (Fukushi Sota) who actually doesn't think much of Mu-hee seeing her as a B-list actor. Naturally with multiple countries and two co-stars who can't talk to each other they need an interpreter and it turns out to be Joo Jo-jin.
There is a slow romance that develops between Jo-jin and Mu-hee but it's kind of mostly on Mu-hee's side because he is very matter of fact yet very private and doesn't say what he actually feels. There's also Hiro Kurosawa as a possible love interest but that never seems credible. Neither is the other love rival, one of the show producers, Shin Ji-seon (Lee E-dam) who is Jo-jin's fiancée but secretly she and Jo-jin have sort of been in love without the other knowing it.
Half way through the series I really like this complication: turns out Mu-hee has a split personality. Do Ra-mi is her assertive and crazy side willing to do the things she's afraid to do. Once Joo Jo-jin finds out he tries to help Do Ra-mi (or is a blackmailed a bit to spend time with her) and meanwhile Mu-hee doesn't remember. It's an interesting twist.
Overall a fairly nice romantic series.