How did you get introduced to K-Drama?

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i used to be addicted to anime and japanese culture but then when my brother showed me full house (at first i thought he was gonna show me an anime) i said i wanted to watch an anime but then as i kept watching full house, i loved that drama. its my favorite drama and my favorite actor/singer/actress are playing in them!
haha i LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE rain bi, he so sexy! and i love song hye gyo shes so pretty!!

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:07 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I was watching my favorite actor,Donnie Yen's movie Seven Sword. I saw Kim So Yeon, and I watched Jacky Chan's The Myth and I saw Kim Hee Seon. So I searched for these 2 names and I was directed to youtube. It showed me a lot of kdramas. That's how I find kdrama.from youtube, i found megauploads,rapidshare,sendspace,megashares,etc. Finally it brought me to d-addicts!

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:16 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

A local channel where I live shows Korean dramas.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

As for me, I stumbled across a review of My Girl while I was surfing the Internet. I though the plot sounded pretty interesting, and decided to give it a shot. After the first episode there was no turning back!

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:21 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It started 9 months ago.

I'm lao and as lao people we usually watch lakorn (thai drama). I haven't been watching lakorns for a couple of years now because of accessibility issues.

MY discovery of dramas started with YOUTUBE. Oddly, in my Press and Society English course, I had a young professor who was really into Youtube. I discovered Youtube through him. I started searching up "asian" stuff on youtube and rediscovered Lakorns. I started watching them and in the comment section someone girl recommended going to Obizgo.tv, a site to watch lakorns and other asian dramas dubbed in Thai.

I watched Lakorn through Obizgo and I wandered through the other ASIAN dramas dubbed in Thai and discovered GOONG. At first, I thought it was really gay because my thai isn't that great and I didn't understand the story. For some stupid/ bored reason, I decided to stick with it and found certain parts of the drama so touching that I got hooked.

I started searching for pics online for GOONG and for some reason decided to search on Youtube. I found Goong with english sub uploaded on youtube and finished the series. GOONG was my first drama and it opened me up to Korean Dramas.

I started to search more Korean Dramas with English sub and discovered D-addicts, torrents, Idols-unlimited, and all these sites for Dramas.

Now, I'm a really bad d-addict.

I now have several collections of sites that I got to for DDL for dramas.
Soompi.
http://mygirl-laurent.blogspot.com/
ChinkyMovieSpoiler-great site for asian films and drama.
silentRegrets.com--another great site for asian films and drama

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i first watched autumn in my heart..since that..i fell in love with wonbin gorgeousness + the story made me cry a lot..after that i looked for other wonbin drama and i found FRIENDS..so i became an obsessed fan of korean movie and drama..but still wonbin is my first fav actor..hehe

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:22 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I started watching Korean dramas when I was randomly flipping through the channels because I was bored. The first drama I watched was My Girl. It caught my attention and I started watching it...unfortunately it had Chinese subtitles and i didn't understand. I looked it up on youtube and found it and starting watching it. Ever since I saw My Girl I have been watching Korean dramas.

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

For me it was like that: I was commenting with a friend how much I love the series where "Good girl fell in love with Bad boys, or The love/hate relationship", and that I was sad that none of the American series has it ( except for Veronica Mars, my addiction at that time), so she recommended to wach" Hana Yori Dango" J- drama...I never, ever had watch anything japonese in all my life, but when she told me the history I went for it!!! No regrets!! Just love it!!!

So I started to look in the internet from more dramas with the same history and guess what? I found "Full House"!!!! Got completely addicted!!! And since that time I pratically forgot about j-dramas, and just watch k-dramas...

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:02 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hmmm i remember watchin Goong Big Smile

for the first time it was 2 years ago .. and after that i became an addicted to the KDrama .. Wub

This is indeed and interesting topic.As for me,all these korean waves addiction coming from Lovers In Paris..........my friend bought the vcd and told me.....come I lend to you this drama and as I was in a very boredorm stage............I say..........ok but does it have local subtitles......he said oh yes.................From there..........I was introduced other korean dramas like Full House.........My sweet 19 years old sister in law,18 vs 29.........Sweet 18...........bla bla bla............until one day he told me he's broke and can't afford to buy anymore..........lol..........I find a way to download it through thisforum and learn other procedures to burn it into a vcd format................what a memory that I will never forget..............Thanks to D-addicts......... salut

Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: ! Post Rating: 0

This summer I took a really difficult class on globalization, and the textbook featured scholarly articles by people from all over the world. Everyone in the class had to do a presentation on an article, and I happened to choose the one by a (South) Korean scholar. During this time I ran across Goong online, almost passed it up, but figured it would be interesting to get a glimpse into Korean culture (lol, Goong is a funny one for that) since I knew very little about it and I was doing that presentation by someone from Korea. Um, and I suppose the rest is history. I can't get enough of k-dramas (as well as j-dramas, tw-dramas, etc.) now. They remind me a lot more of books than American TV, as odd as that sounds. Maybe it's the definite endings instead of endless dragging on, season after season

I feel like it is an interesting example of how a lot of tiny factors and choices in life can end up in a big result/whatever. I almost didn't take that class, and if I didn't, I probably wouldn't have downloaded Goong, and would be a completely different person now (well, not completely, but at least a bit). It's a little strange to say kdramas have changed me so much, but I really spend a lot of my free time watching them, and now I'm into kpop and stuff, and those kinds of thing scan really affect the way a person is! [/i] Tongue

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I was bored, I didn't wanna study, and got bored of the music on my computer and in the radio. I don't have cable TV and there was nothing on 2,4,5,7,9,11, and 13 so I decided to, actually go to the foreign channels and when I got to channel 18, there was Dennis Oh's handsome face, staring me on my plasma. I was like, WOW. I was about to change the channel cuz I knew it was foreign and it didn't matter whether it had subtitles, but Dennis was speaking English as in American English! So I stayed to watch the entire episode and it felt like a new drug.

I did some googling, found some site that listed all the asian dramas on ch.18, and found out the name of the show was Sweet Spy. I could tell I already missed a lot and I remember my friend kept talking about d-addicts so I went here and dl-ed all 11 eps available at the time. But I read people's comments and some of them seemed to have already watched the future eps, and at that point I was hooked. It hadn't gotten to the part where Dennis had a lot of lines to say... so, I really really wanted to dl more. These people kept saying clubbox and was bummed to find out it was just in Korean. But I was already an addict, so I did everything I could to follow directions on some tutorial and actually ended up using clubbox for a couple months or so. Until, I don't know all the rules, or if I had to share like on BT(?), but the guy I was getting it from suddenly put a password on his box and then I couldn't access it. And everyone else I tried had passwords too. Sadly, I didn't know about WITHS2's clubbox, else I might've kept using it, and not have forgotten my username/password.

But Sweet Spy had finished at that point so I really wanted to watch something just like it. Sweet Spy was so damn hilarious in the beginning (first 6 eps) and the crappy ending left me with a bit of a lingering feeling that there had to be other shows with better endings and I saw peoples comments about Kim Sam-soon. And of course after her hysterically funny introduction to the restaurant staff, there was no saving me from it. From then on, I became a k-drama fan. I haven't felt the same obsession before as I did with the first two, but Legend comes close. Although the 1.5gb files is certainly not making it easy.

Before I saw Dennis's face on my big screen, I never ever would've checked out a k-drama at all. I had this notion that k-dramas were... well not primitive but, hm... well they reminded me of soap operas and how I could hear every single thing that caught the mic, and I didn't like that. It just sounds so, RAW. But now I'm used to it Laugh

That and I wasn't a fan of reading subtitles then.

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i was learning manadrin and had fallen behind in some classes so thought that replacing normal tv with tw-dramas for a while would help me as id be "hearing" mandarin everyday....i was instantly hooked...then started looking for more dramas, came across drama dedicated websites where recommendations lead me to k-dramas then jdoramas.....now im a drama addict lol

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

The first Kdrama i watched was Full House *_* It's still one of my favourites Big Smile