🎎 K-Dramas Get European Remakes
Korean series are reaching a new level in Europe. Where success once meant simply breaking into streaming top tens, in 2026 the trend has shifted toward large-scale adaptation and co-production, experts noted at the Mip London forum.
Over the past five years, 210 Korean dramas have appeared in Netflix’s top 10. One hit, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, stayed in the charts in Portugal and Greece for seven weeks in a row.
Major player CJ ENM is no longer just selling finished shows, but developing multilingual projects in partnership with Western studios.
Studio Fifth Season (co-owned by Korean, Japanese and American investors) is already preparing English-language versions of popular K-dramas, with erotic revenge thriller Eve among the first titles slated for adaptation.
Western producers are enthusiastic about the bold genre-blending and original concepts found in Korean dramas—ideas they say are rarely seen in Hollywood.
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