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#295955 8-May-2022 20:07

I have been watching “Alice”, a Korean series on Netflix. I have successfully watched three episodes in English, but today the only language option is Korean. My settings are set to English. I’ve run out of ideas. Anyone else come across this issue?

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#2911690 8-May-2022 20:19

turn on subtitles.
You'll find it a much more enjoyable experience than watching English overdubbed.

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#2911691 8-May-2022 20:25

Agreed on the superiority of subs over dubbing.

A long-shot, but are you using any particular VPN or a DNS solution that may make Netflix think you're in Korea? I've run into this type of thing when trying to pretend I'm in Japan.

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#2911692 8-May-2022 20:30

Looking at this on my NZ netflix account, English overdubbing doesn't appear to be available for any episode (including the first three). Only English subs.

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#2911751 9-May-2022 08:53

If you are competent in another language than English, you can make a new guest profile eg French and set the profile options to your language. It means that all the titles and descriptions will pop up in your language and so will the audio and subtitle options. You might be lucky and they have dubbed, or cc in your language but just not English. Often they still have the English option as well.

I have done this successfully myself. The only problem with it can be the titles are often not the same as English Netflix and are a translated version which often has no bearing to the English title.

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#2911788 9-May-2022 11:07

CeeGee: I have been watching “Alice”, a Korean series on Netflix. I have successfully watched three episodes in English, but today the only language option is Korean. My settings are set to English. I’ve run out of ideas. Anyone else come across this issue?

Just had a quick squiz for you and mine is only showing Korean audio as well

Might be easiest to just reach out to Netflix via their live chat option - https://help.netflix.com/en/ [live chat button is bottom right]

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#2912000 9-May-2022 21:07

Thanks for your helpful suggestions everyone. I guess my old age is catching up on me & the episodes I watched must have had subtitles, not dubbing I don’t usually like these, but obviously were not intrusive enough to stop me enjoying the series.

Always grateful everyone
Cheers

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