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Money Heist: Why is Netflix remaking the heist series in Korea?

18 January, 2022

Netflix just dropped a teaser for Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area, a remake of massively popular Spanish heist series Money Heist (or La Casa de Papel), which wrapped up its third and final season last year on the streamer. While the Korean remake will follow roughly the same storyline and characters as the original (it is a remake, after all), there will be changes that inherently come with the different setting and language, as the. Honestly, just the fact that Season 1 of Money Heist: Korea will be 12 episodes, versus the original’s 15-episode first season (broken out into two parts) suggests that we will not be getting the same exact story. But there are always more stories to tell and Money Heist only just finished, so why is Netflix choosing to remake Money Heist, and so quickly after the original’s conclusion? Obviously, the answer is money (which does not inherently mean the K-drama won’t be good, or have something different to say with the bones of the same story), but let’s break down what that means…

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