Dr. Kyung Hyun Kim is Professor of East As ian Languages and Literatures and of Visual Studies at the University of Ca lifornia\, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. at USC’s School of Cinema-Televis ion. He is author of Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era (2011) and The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). He is also the coeditor of The Korean Popular Culture Reader (2014)—all of the books published by Duke University Press. This talk probe s into the transnational exchange of remakes between China and Korea. I com pare this exchange to that of France and the United States\, where French c ritics and filmmakers\, as early as the days of André Bazin\, condemned the Hollywood’s practice of remake as a debasement of the French ‘original’ an d as a form of vulgar American commercialism. It examines the case of Chine se remake of Korean television content and explores the potential degradati on of Korean culture by the wealthier Chinese media entrepreneurs who are a ppropriating and purchasing Korean variety shows as remake properties\, alt hough it is seldom brought up as a threat by either Korean or Chinese criti cs. If the ‘one-way trajectory’ from the high-brow French original to the vulgar American adaptation was held up as an example of American imperialis m\, I trace how the ‘one-way trajectory’ from the creative Korean original to the debased Chinese remakes\, is now made an exemplary of Chinese imperialism\, but Korean imperialism.