Asian DramaWiki Forum

Time for another poll!! I hope the response rate will be greater this time.

Anyway, I am interested in knowing the ul/dl cycle throughout the day, which I am pretty sure is a function of the time zones of the regions where the d-addicters live. Please choose from the options. I know alot of you guys leave that out in the profile because of the issue of privacy. Just in case you are wondering, this is anonymous.

feb stats so far



1 3233480 35.21% 3099666 35.16% 6457499 46.01% Network
2 2011104 21.90% 1917250 21.75% 2737796 19.51% US Commercial
3 990705 10.79% 958872 10.88% 1195940 8.52% Unresolved/Unknown
4 551037 6.00% 524232 5.95% 830871 5.92% US Educational
5 329245 3.59% 324681 3.68% 217910 1.55% United Kingdom
6 296811 3.23% 285355 3.24% 448385 3.19% Singapore
7 286606 3.12% 272299 3.09% 422175 3.01% Canada
8 221136 2.41% 214166 2.43% 202565 1.44% Netherlands
9 199790 2.18% 189226 2.15% 263006 1.87% Australia
10 124334 1.35% 123537 1.40% 80952 0.58% Hong Kong
11 114627 1.25% 105997 1.20% 169612 1.21% France
12 104863 1.14% 102123 1.16% 191959 1.37% Japan
13 80622 0.88% 78998 0.90% 89473 0.64% Germany
14 75683 0.82% 74727 0.85% 86493 0.62% Poland
15 66830 0.73% 66300 0.75% 40273 0.29% Denmark
16 59255 0.65% 53564 0.61% 131376 0.94% Sweden
17 55084 0.60% 55041 0.62% 25195 0.18% Thailand
18 52719 0.57% 52136 0.59% 28191 0.20% Italy
19 50262 0.55% 48472 0.55% 75487 0.54% Finland
20 44614 0.49% 43627 0.49% 51311 0.37% Brazil
21 32757 0.36% 30958 0.35% 44722 0.32% Philippines
22 28944 0.32% 28867 0.33% 19239 0.14% Switzerland
23 18495 0.20% 18458 0.21% 21997 0.16% Argentina
24 17314 0.19% 17048 0.19% 22025 0.16% Taiwan
25 16008 0.17% 15523 0.18% 19309 0.14% Hungary
26 15277 0.17% 15104 0.17% 17476 0.12% Norway
27 10846 0.12% 10723 0.12% 5104 0.04% Estonia
28 9227 0.10% 8771 0.10% 12234 0.09% Austria
29 9153 0.10% 8562 0.10% 11279 0.08% Mexico
30 8869 0.10% 7751 0.09% 17695 0.13% Non-Profit Organization

If you wanted to know where people live now, maybe you should reword the question. People in my classes are from Japan, China, Korea, etc...

45MBit dsl in tokyo for ~3900 en... ii desu ne.... But, I'm on OC-48. So I don't care.

haha thanx ruroshin...that was more than I expected...

my house

ok that was corny

I am suprise that there is not mush french who like asiatique drama !!! that is a shame for them ..... to my point of view , I love romantique drama ....and altmost mostly are like it ....so I like every drama that is postint ...

nanda wrote:I am suprise that there is not mush french who like asiatique drama !!! that is a shame for them ..... to my point of view , I love romantique drama ....and altmost mostly are like it ....so I like every drama that is postint ...

Hey what are you talking about? I live in france for a whole year last year and believe me a lot of french ppl loves asian stuff, as a matter of fact they watch asian (especialy japanese) movies, dramas instead of those american ones, atleast it's like that among the university students. Saying french ppl don't like asiatique drama is like saying french ppl don't hate americans which sounds like a joke to me.

shirahime wrote: I live in france for a whole year last year and believe me a lot of french ppl loves asian stuff...

ok that is possible that in your city in france there are a lot of people who like asiatique stuff...
I am born in france ,I have a lot of friends ....and most of them don't aprreciate asiatique drama.They love manga,but don't like drama asiatique .....
I don't critisize them,I just say that it is a shame that their culture are just limited by just what france's culture ...

ps : I am in fact born in france and live in France ,in Strasbourg but my origin is from Mauritius Island (I have the double nationality)
ps2:escuse my bad english

@snanda, do you have an asian heritage? The reason I am asking is I am very skeptical, that an indigenous European would be interested in asian cinema. I know at least in the States, Asia drama is only limited to asian american, and it is unthink of that a cowboy from Texas would like j/kdrama..(no offense to Texans haha)...

I just have to say that I'm American and have no Asian heritage. I'm a mix of French, German, and Irish; mostly German though. But, I study Japanese while majoring in Comp Science. There are a lot of people like me in my japanese classes(in my 4th right now) and the waiting list for the class is very long. I got into the class during my Freshman year(1st sem too), though. Which is very rare.

I bet there are plenty of Texans watching these too, but I doubt people without an internet connection have been exposed to these dramas though(this implies they can't be found in stores in the area, which is my case).

I can agree that I'm a minority though(wouldn't know for a fact though) because I've found out that Americans usually don't like to read subtitles or listen to strange foreign languages(except french). Also my roommates have always asked why I watch these and complained?, but sometimes I catch them watching my dramas.

wow...learning new things everyday I guess my NYC (hometown) mentality just took over me for a while.

xiaryx wrote:@snanda, do you have an asian heritage? The reason I am asking is I am very skeptical, that an indigenous European would be interested in asian cinema. I know at least in the States, Asia drama is only limited to asian american, and it is unthink of that a cowboy from Texas would like j/kdrama..(no offense to Texans haha)...

no sorry xiaryx , I don't have asian heritage ,I only have indian heritage and I am proud of it... I think every one is unique , and every one must be happy of what he( or she) is because every one has a unique past and I am sure beautiful heritage whatever he (or she) is ...heritage is a treasure ....so I hope that everybody cherrish his heritage like the most beautiful present he (or she) have never had .....

I just want to finish by saying to every one :
Be proud of what you are ,and what you do ...because you have the power to make great stuff .....(which not everybody can... )

xiaryx wrote:@snanda, do you have an asian heritage? The reason I am asking is I am very skeptical, that an indigenous European would be interested in asian cinema. I know at least in the States, Asia drama is only limited to asian american, and it is unthink of that a cowboy from Texas would like j/kdrama..(no offense to Texans haha)...

I don't have a single drop of asian blood, German/Italian here

And it's probably true, Americans are xenophobic by nature.

And too lazy to read subtitles (true survey fact)

But of course like in everything else we can't generalize....

Ah I hope you didn't misundertand what I was trying to say... I just feel like Asians like asian drama because they can relate better.

However, I do feel disturbed that typical Americans do not enjoy, or may even make fun of or resent foreign cinema. I always feel like America is at a stage a lot similar to that of 1800's China/Japan, and this xenophobic attitude will surely hurt the country in the future.

Just my two cents...

xiaryx wrote:Ah I hope you didn't misundertand what I was trying to say... I just feel like Asians like asian drama because they can relate better.

However, I do feel disturbed that typical Americans do not enjoy, or may even make fun of or resent foreign cinema. I always feel like America is at a stage a lot similar to that of 1800's China/Japan, and this xenophobic attitude will surely hurt the country in the future.

Just my two cents...

No, not at all. What you said is absolute true. I'm just a Gaijin/Gwailo that enjoys Asian culture (a lot)

We have, of course, strayed waaaaay off topic here, but this is an interesting tangent and I just thought I'd get my nickel and a half in...

I just wanted to point out that xenophobia is not a trait exclusive to Americans. It is a problem in all nations across all continents. Nobody likes to talk about it, and it certainly isn't a good thing, but you can often see it hiding under more politically correct tags like "nationalism" (and I'm not saying that nationalism is necessarily a bad thing, but it has been my observation that xenophobes like to hide behind flags).

And I think the fact that many Americans aren't fans of foreign cinema is not so much a result of xenophobia as just plain "not knowing what's out there" and being brought up with the very homogenous standards of television in the US. Other countries in Europe and Asia just get exposed to more things because they actually have many close neighbors, each of which has thier own entertainment industry. So i think that just makes them more open and used to foreign programs and subtitles, compared to Americans.

You don't have to be Asian to be able to relate to the stories. Most are just about basic human nature, although it sometimes helps to understand the culture it originates from. But, like I said before, it all boils down to exposure. If you are Asian, it is likely that your parents were watching videos or what-have-you from their native country as you were growing up. So automatically, you have some idea of the possibilities outside of the mainstream entertainment where you grew up, and it kind of snowballs from there....

Anyways, I think I've exceeded my nickel and a half and I don't have another dime on me, so I'll end it here... Please resume normal conversation...
^_^;

DeathAtSight wrote:
I can agree that I'm a minority though(wouldn't know for a fact though) because I've found out that Americans usually don't like to read subtitles or listen to strange foreign languages(except french). Also my roommates have always asked why I watch these and complained?, but sometimes I catch them watching my dramas.

Kind of like here in the Philippines. Other Asian actors are the in thing here now because of F4 and suddenly almost everybody's into it. Before, people who watch movies w/ language other than Filipino or English are weird. Now those who snubbed non-Filipino movies/series are fans and are all over their tv screens.

So, anyway, like I said I'm from the Philippines

Da city of Traffic jam Jkt, Indonesia

I live in England and although it is part of the European continent, I do not conside rmyself European.

not alot of people live in canada..
surprised..
well, me from canada

-yoon

I'm living in a constant state of confusion right now!!

Also in the Bay Area here in Cali...

I'm very curious about the demographics of this website (i.e. fans of J and K dramas.) My initial hypothesis is that most fans are Asians (including Asian Americans) I've noticed a few Europeans as well. That's very interesting !!! Of course, I may be jumping into conclusions and my hypothesis could be totally off.

This is just out of curiosity and is meant to be voluntary. You shouldn't mention your ethnicity, residence, or citizenship if you don't feel comfortable doing so...

Let me start...
I'm Asian American (Singaporean descent), residing in NY, USA.

P.S. No flames please. If you think this is stupid / feel uncomfortable to reply, then you don't have to.

Cheers.

Ciao!!! I'm Italian.
I like to watch Japanese dramas only, since I'm studying Japanese at University. I use them to exercise my listening abilities^_^

Ja neeeeeeeeeeeee

I live in France in Strasbourg .
I am studyig computer .
And I loove kdrama and jdrama !

this thread already exists: http://www.d-addicts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=694

....merging threads

heritage...

Well i'm european (with french origine) and proud to be european

About France i believe we have a long heritage of loving japanese culture because all the children (up to the guys in their early 30's now) where used to watch anime while childhood. (goldorak, Candy, alps no shoujou AKA heidi etc)

we all grew up watching japanese anime, more than any other country in europe and north america. So when we grow up our interests stay tuned to japanese culture. I believe it is not a wired trendy stuff for nerds to be a japanese culture lover. Actually the more time goes the wider our interest grow (language, art, music and so on...)

and that's a good thing. We open to asian culture in general ( hk, k, tw, sg, c vt) and make friends in a lot of countries. ^________^

PS: what i like in dorama is that even as a granpa one day i'll still be young enough to watch it ^_- While anime tend to be less interesting for me as i'm getting older (25)

PS2: hmm... ::glups:: well i'm still an otaku though i nearly went hikikomori

Hi,
I am a chinese girl from the Netherlands, maybe you don't know it, because it's a very small country in Europe. Because of this, the english series and movies on TV are always subbed (they don't make a lot dutch movies). So, I'm kind of used to reading subtitles. I still think the subbing movies is better than dubbing them. Because all the english movies and series are subbed, the people here are learning English far better than the countries which use dubbing, like France and Germany.

At first I started to download only manderin spoken dramas and movies, because I wanted to improve my manderin. But later on, I also began to watch a few Anime, and I got totally hooked. I also began to liking the japanese language and recognising it, when I heard it. So now I'm hooked with watching these drama's from this site. Because of that I haven't wriiten anything for my master thesis in business for a month now. Haha, I'm just very lazy and the japanese/korean drama's here make it worse The good thing of this site, is that it made me appreciate the asian culture more. I used to be very westernized, but I have fount my roots back

Hi!
I'm from Switzerland, I'm happy I found this website a little while ago, so much jdrama and kdrama here ! I don't need to look anywhere else on internet for this stuff

here there is no way I would find any of this in stores

hola! one weird guy from spain!
here it is not common asian dramas even if there is a huge comunity of otakus (i'm one of them of course )... anime is much more common here, either in tv or fansubbed.

lucky that i can download dramas here

aloha! asian american in hawaii. i also prefer subs vice dub.

i dont really know how to answer it... i was born in korea but I live in the US...

Hi!
I'm from the center of United States, the Land of Oz.

Hi there,
Im from Singapore. The country im from is listed in the polls but has zero count...gotta give full support.....

a filipino in canada

i can't believe that i'm the only japanese/korean

US

i'm in my skin......that skin just so happpens to be in washington DC.

Hello! I'm from Brazil, São Paulo City.
Minna-san hajimemashite ^^

I'm from the us where the majority are..

sorry i cant help but sleep after readin so much of your posts

its 1:30 in the morning here in good ole USA........so decided to give this thread a bumpity bump.........I reside in US..........Dirty South..........Napoleon's worst real estate transaction.....NOLA.........Kenner a.k.a. America's City (Bullsh*t)

ya heaarrddddd meeee??!!!

I'm from the wonderful, green country of Sweden.
As I've said in the d-addicts channel numerous times, Blonde girls and nice weather is equal to Sweden =)

_FlaYer wrote:I'm from the wonderful, green country of Sweden.
As I've said in the d-addicts channel numerous times, Blonde girls and nice weather is equal to Sweden =)

You forgot the snow. I met a few Swedish people online. One nice Norwegian fellow too. They had lovely, deep, white snow.

xkpxbabeex wrote:not alot of people live in canada..
surprised..
well, me from canada

-yoon

Add another Canadian to the count, Chinese-Canadian to be more exact

Well, actually, I think there's quite a few Asians scattered throughout the world. So, wouldn't be supposed if the majority of the people in the forum has an Asian heritage of sorts.

Cheers.

I'm an American (NJ) of Italian/German heritage living in a small town in Japan. Haven't watched any Chinese or Korean drama yet, but at least with the Japanese drama it speaks more about the society's life and culture rather than traditional Japanese culture. So, it would be relevant to anyone who has studied anything about Japan or is interested at all in Japan, rather than only those who are Asian by birth. I could possibly even go so far as to say I get more out of it than a Japanese person who was either born abroad or left Japan at a young age. They know Japanese culture, but I know Japanese daily life and I think the second is a bit more important in these dramas.

lindaatje wrote:Hi,
I am a chinese girl from the Netherlands, maybe you don't know it, because it's a very small country in Europe. Because of this, the english series and movies on TV are always subbed (they don't make a lot dutch movies). So, I'm kind of used to reading subtitles. I still think the subbing movies is better than dubbing them. Because all the english movies and series are subbed, the people here are learning English far better than the countries which use dubbing, like France and Germany.

At first I started to download only manderin spoken dramas and movies, because I wanted to improve my manderin. But later on, I also began to watch a few Anime, and I got totally hooked. I also began to liking the japanese language and recognising it, when I heard it. So now I'm hooked with watching these drama's from this site. Because of that I haven't wriiten anything for my master thesis in business for a month now. Haha, I'm just very lazy and the japanese/korean drama's here make it worse The good thing of this site, is that it made me appreciate the asian culture more. I used to be very westernized, but I have fount my roots back

Wow.. din't know that happens to someone else also. I too think myself quite westernized couple of years back. But lately I started getting hook to asian series again and start appreciating/missing asian culture. Either I'm getting old, or these series must be very "powerful"

You forgot the snow. I met a few Swedish people online. One nice Norwegian fellow too. They had lovely, deep, white snow.

True, but I'd rather forget it since I've got snow about 5-6 months a year =)

But it's nice....for one month =)

South America > Brazil > São Paulo > The 3rd biggest city of the americas and not a forest as some of guys who barely study would think Brazil is. Not offending it is just a fact.

just to say that japanese ppl uses dub too
i've see a kdrama in japan dubbed in japanese

Mexico, ChihuahuaCity

about Subbing there is actually a very funny clip about this Iraqies that speak ENGLISH well, but the tv station had to make subtitle for his speech, and the reporter told him that his english is good that's why he needs subtitle, then the Iraqies asks his friend that has gibberish English, and guess what, NO SUBTITLE, lol then he mocks the reporter that her English suck <-- LOL I didn[t konw where to get this video from but only to share it with you guys.

Pardon if you are not getting the explanation of these clip.

Mongolian but live in TOkyo

*from US, in FL* hope to live in Japan.....eventuallly....

this is why i love forums so much. people are gathered together from all over the world to share and discuss their common interests, recommend reviews, and get to know one another.

i think it's great that there are people of non-asian heritage, who are also proud of their own heritage, but are also interested in the entertainment world of other cultures. i, for one, am of chinese origin but born in the United States, but most of the time...i much rather watch asian dramas. i mean, u can learn so much more from them than american tv shows [language-wised and experience-wised]. plus, they're so much more detailed with plots so intricate at times that makes u want to pull out ur hair. tha'ts how good they are~.

a lot of my friends don't understand my obsession with anime, korean, japanese, taiwanese, and hk dramas. so, sometimes it seems as though i'm not so "westernized" and even "fobby" to them. i don't mind because i know they're only kidding and sometimes just for the hell of it, i'll pull out some korean or japanese sayings that i've learned just from watching those shows.

bah....sorry for the rambling~

Haaman wrote:about Subbing there is actually a very funny clip about this Iraqies that speak ENGLISH well, but the tv station had to make subtitle for his speech, and the reporter told him that his english is good that's why he needs subtitle, then the Iraqies asks his friend that has gibberish English, and guess what, NO SUBTITLE, lol then he mocks the reporter that her English suck <-- LOL I didn[t konw where to get this video from but only to share it with you guys.

Pardon if you are not getting the explanation of these clip.

Hey, I know exactly what you're talking about, here's the link: http://www.computerpranks.com/download/ ... report.wmv
This crap is really funny

Anyways, born and raised in LA, Cali. Now living in Vegas.

I'm from Switzerland , Lausanne exactly !

wow so many from the US well i'm from Melbourne, Australia

_FlaYer wrote:You forgot the snow. I met a few Swedish people online. One nice Norwegian fellow too. They had lovely, deep, white snow.

True, but I'd rather forget it since I've got snow about 5-6 months a year =)

But it's nice....for one month =)

I hate snow... hate it.. truly eeeek... snow gggaaaahhh

Anyway, the only other place with snow I want to see is the Ice festival in Sapporo.
Thats about it.

I was born at about the same lattitude as Kodiak Alaska so... yeah snow... no thanks.
(but on the other side of the world;) )

hullo everyone

is this site an american forum? and is everyone from the states here? is anyone from the uk like me?

did someone forgot to add korea?^^

well, since half of the stuff here is about korean drama you should add korea as welll^^

jsut my two cents

|sUiZiD| wrote:did someone forgot to add korea?^^

well, since half of the stuff here is about korean drama you should add korea as welll^^

jsut my two cents

It's there, under Japan/Korea...interestingly it's number count is low

heyaa im from london, uk
anyone else in the uk?

|sUiZiD| wrote:did someone forgot to add korea?^^

well, since half of the stuff here is about korean drama you should add korea as welll^^

jsut my two cents

Actually they did, |sUiZiD|-chan, they just grouped it together with Japan Oh, the injustice .... oh well, guess they assume this is a fansub-ish forum (ie: people looking for subtitles diff from the original language), there's less likely to be native speakers... ... oh, by the way, I'm neither Japanese nor Korean, just for the record

i think il be the first one to be coming from the Middle East, from DUBAI specifically!

But born and grew up in the Philippines! Mabuhay! Only been working here for a year now!

I'm from Italy!

Well I'm Filipina living in the Cali, USA. Im studying Computer Science. And like watching
Korean And Japanese dramas and anime. Also some taiwanese drama. Can u guys recommend other good taiwanese dramas cuz so far all I know of are meteor garden which I think the anime is better than the drama and lavender <- my favorite so far. Anyways these 2 are all that i know of. SO ya recommendation please.

humpf didnt I see it? strange thing I was sure it was only Japan^^

And one more thing I am shocked only so few korean and japanese around here, but then again why getting them form the net while you can enjoy it on TV....... .....

Hi there,
Dutch/German guy living in the Netherlands over here. Got addicted as well...

from Germany.

Chinese girl living in the Netherlands, just fell in love with kdrama since I saw Autumn's Tale on HK TV...

I don't have a single drop of Asian blood in me lol, I'm Russian living in Canada and have been into Damas for some time now... I'm in love with the Asian culture and some of my friends say that I must of been Asian in my past life hahaha..

American black guy here

Hello, I'm from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I'm Malay mixed Chinese and Indian.

Kind of suprizing to see small countries like M'sia and S'pore there on the poll... since usually we're in a group together with Asia/South-east Asia. But glad to see it anyway.

I found that there are lot of vietnammese in here but I can't see the vietnam in the poll

Yup From France ^^