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You gotta look at it from South Korea's point of view. The Korean animation industry is nothing compared to the Japanese animation industry. It's not just BL, it's all animation. Until they see a profitable market with less risk, they're not going to produce it.
As for more bl anime overall, I don't know what's holding them back. I'm guessing it has to do with lack of funds and the fear of failure and backlash. But it does seem like they're testing the waters with a few yaoi ovas(?) this season, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.
There was a time when BL was merely a subculture. But I think it's not same anymore. We could give excuses like, BL animes can't sell enough merchandise and it can't return the production value. I call that bullshit. I mean I've seen girls buying anything with non canon BL ships. Shirts, mugs, kye chain, dojuns anything. This shipping culture has even spread to kpop. Maybe yaoi might not appeal to a wide odience but Light BL's like no.6 are huge catches. They can start off the pedal that might develop to something like greatest animes someday. about the source materials I see no problem at all. Y'all are blind if you deny that. Korean manwhas are like hot cakes for the fujos nowadays. Many of them has really great aspects. So I see no reason as to why they still don't animate GOOD BLs into ANIMES OR ANIMATIONS. Come on south Korea they work on making Japanese animes but not their own thing. They have marketing skills to make this huge. For example look at Lazhin. They charge coins for quality webtoons. And I see the business only growing.