Netflix Sets First Korean Original Series

SEOUL: Love Alarm, based on a webtoon by Kye Young Chon, has been slated as Netflix’s first Korean original series.

This 12-episode series will be produced by Jaemoon Lee from the newly formed production company Hidden Sequence. Lee was previously involved in several award-winning Korean drama series, including Signal and An Incomplete Life.

Love Alarm is one of the most popular webtoon series in Korea. Its story centers on an unknown developer releasing an app that will tell the user if someone within 10 meters has romantic feelings for them, which greatly disrupts society. Love Alarm will premiere exclusively on Netflix in 2018 to its members in over 190 countries.

“We want Love Alarm, the TV series, to exhibit the liveliness and expression of emotions, with visual treatments that will reflect Ms. Chon’s vision when she created the story,” said Lee.

Erik Barmack, the VP of international originals at Netflix, added, “It is an honor for Netflix to collaborate with a great storyteller like Ms. Chon and a visionary producer like Mr. Lee for our very first Korean original production. Working together, we look forward to transforming this wildly imaginative story into a top-quality drama series for over 86 million Netflix members around the world.”