Well, I was having one of those re-run kdrama time on my sister's Archos. Even though I watched All About Eve for like 10 times over already, but it always feel good to rewatch a drama I really like. So when I had to do a Number 2, knowing it was going to be a very long venture, I was going to carried the Archos with me, but it almost ran out of battery, so I set up my labtop on a chair. :''| hehe...

And I also grew up in those asian household that rent VHS tapes. So when Jewel in the Palace first come out, it has to be dubbed in my own language first, so there would be two episode or VHS tape per week in the supermarket. (I was too young to find out about watching kdrama online/downloading/english-subtitle/etc. ) I had a good run from school to supermarket to my house for months, once a week. Every Thursday...

although i was busy with my pre-university exams towards the end of last year, i just couldn't resist watching You're Beautiful. however, the exams were REALLY important, if not, my chance of entering a public university would have been slim. so i decided that i'll just try to catch DramaBean's recaps on You're Beautiful. I couldn't be thankful enough even if the recaps spoil the time that i will watch the drama soon after the exams. The recaps and the pics that come with it made me even more excited about watching the show. K-dramas are like chocolate, an addiction hard to get rid of. Since i love the show so much, i worked hard after the exams to get enough pocket money to spend on the OSTs that i love so much, eventhough the OSTs are available to download on the internet for free, i really wanted to support the drama. just a couple of weeks ago, i purchased the OSTs part 1 and 2. Thankfully there was a discount at that time, I couldn't be more happy!!! XD Now, the only thing left is getting the DVD set which i have a hard time putting my money on. to date, i have repeatedly watched the drama 3 times!!! I consider that a feat as my mother is considerably worried now that I will continue this irresponsible behavior in university but I swear that i'll stop, 'cause i don't think the internet connection at my university is very strong but that's not the only factor. K dramas have given me joy in the sense that it relieves my inner fantasy. Something which I can't attain in real life as I'm a person who don't express so well in front of people. I even tell myself that even if I die, I will rest in peace because I was able to watch beautiful people like Jang Geun Suk and Gong Yoo. I love Gong Yoo when he appeared in Coffee Prince. Am still waiting for him to make a hit drama again! Lately, since I'm still crazy about You're Beautiful, I kept making references to JGS in my facebook. I think it annoys my friends! However, my friends too tease in return so much so that I pout like Hwang Tae Kyung! Eventually I bought sushi set to eat my momentary depression. >.<

I'm kinda a silent fan of your blog, but thought I'd share my story with all the other Korean drama fans out there!

Reading everyone's stories, it's made me realize I've done a lot of stuff to show my fandom too, I bought a whole bunch of Rena Chris barrettes when Goong came out (have a total of 7!), bought a Kim Sam Soon stuffed pig for my dog (yes... do not want to admit it was for myself!), stayed up late and skipped school and work to watch dramas, etc... But I think my biggest display of fandom was when both my mom and I fell in love with the drama All In. So much, that we both took a trip to Jeju Island (which is a good 15 hour plane ride where we were from) and stayed at the Hyatt Regency Jeju where they filmed a bunch of scenes. I even sat on a bench labeled "All In" outside of the hotel. While we were there, we also visited the Lotte Jeju Hotel (another place where they filmed All In) and I bought a cheapy All In music box (a plastic replica of the one in the drama) and it has a picture of Lee Byung Hun in it. LOL :)

Also I did stay in Seoul and went to the Korean Folk Village (as I also loved Damo at the time) and bought a polaris necklace and matching earrings (as seen in Winter Sonata) at the amethyst factory. I remember while I was in Seoul, watching Kim Sam Soon on TV - it was the episode where she was explaining the Madeline cookies to Daniel Henney.

Needless to say, my All In phase passed and five years later, I don't even remember where I put that cheapy music box (at the time it was one of my biggest treasures of the trip)!

Nyahaha. I guess you can't call yourself a true kdrama fan unless you've stayed up all night watching your current addiction and called in sick the next day xD

Well. I'm not really old enough to have a regular job so I regret to say that I have not yet done that particular deed. But there was that one time I had a summer job with my friend sorting papers. It is the type of work that numbs your brain to the point that things start to blur around the edges and for some reason you have a strange urge to put your friend in a wheelie chair and bug everyone during break, so it's understandable when we allowed ourselves o get distracted by the relentless phenomenon of Boys Over Flowers. I am Korean. My friend is not, so BOF was her first kdrama ever. We were so addicted to it in fact that we started watching it even when we WEREN'T on break. We sat at this huge table to do the sorting and we would situate her iPod touch between us hidden by a stack of papers with one earphone in one ear each. It was pretty awkward for my friend since she did not know Korean and had to rely on the subtitles, but she couldn't be looking down at it all the time cuz she had to (pretend to) concentrate on the papers. Anyway she did her best and at times during a funny part we would both burst out laughing which again is pretty awkward since no one actually knew we were watching anything xD We got lots of weird looks. We actually had to redo a box because weade so many mistakes. Jeez whhhaat a gong show that was...

On another note, there was also the time I stayed up too late watching Brilliant Legacy. I finished the last episode at around three which isn't too bad. But then I spent another hour crying and fretting over the rooftop scene with Seungmi and her mother (beautiful scene btw) and so the next day at school I was overly emotional and weepy (i had also had a dream about Hwan getting hit by a car and losing his memory and Eunsung running around crying while waving around the necklace he gave her screaming about how yes, she needs her pie now. It was a weird dream) and I would start crying randomly over stupid things like how I tripped over a doorjamb and the price of a school trip to Europe. It was a strange day.

Anyway generally i've had to hide my drama watching from my parents because they don't want me to be distracted. There were a couple of fiascos there but I won't get into it now, I wanna go read other peoples'!

Heehee thanks for the opportunity!

Last year at my house the internet was snail-paced slow, I used to have one of those dial-up lines that you plug into the telephone jack. My friend introduced me to You're Beautiful, which was probably the drama to watch last year, and I couldn't stop swallowing episode after episode. But I had to wait like a bazillion years for one 10-minute video to load. Honestly I was up till' practically 4 A.M. every morning, watching 2 seconds go by every ten minutes on the video coupled with paused funny character expressions (I remember the part where Go Mi-Nam was pointing at her mole in that Temptations of a Wife parody and going wha?? The video paused again). I especially hated the times when there'd be a really good moment, and my computer would subsequently shut down due to exhaustion or something. I'd scream in the early hours of the morning and then quickly cover my mouth because my parents would definitely have killed me (or something equally severe). Anyway, since that didn't go very well, I caught up with a new idea. I decided to run to the library every day during Thanksgiving break to catch up with episodes (by then You're Beautiful had pretty much already ended its television run). It was so cold and I don't know how to ride a bike, so that pretty much sucked ass. The library is about 10 minutes away by car, and since I'm so athletically limited, it took me at least 30 minutes to get there. I was practically panting like a dog once I entered, and this really, really paranoid librarian used to eye me all the time. But my parents found out about my obsession and they banned me from the library and my computer (tyrannical gestures by parents or what?). By the time I was off the hook, school had resumed again. The public library's right next to my school (more convenient for me) and I’d go there everyday during lunch to watch episodes. It was all very mortifying because I wore ear buds and all, watching videos, laughing silently to myself while elderly people and business folks searched online modestly for whatever they needed. There was this one time when I was watching contently when the librarian loomed over me:

Librarian: Having a good time? [I remember this convo all to well. She still scares me half to death]
Me: Uh, yeah.
Librarian: Well, get off RIGHT NOW. Didn’t you read the sign? It’s reserved for the public ONLY today (and not students like me). [It’s the stare that gets me every time. And she was staring at me like her eyes would pop out]
Me: Oh, I’m so sorry.

Anyway, I tried to walk dignified into the library the next day ready to watch, but then gave up because the librarian was there again. I went as far as to track her schedule down, for the days she’d be there at lunch. I’d stay after school those days to watch videos, since by then her shift was done. Then I’d walk home really late and I’d lie to my parents about having projects. I guess they didn’t realize the pattern to the days I did the project.

+My k-drama addiction begin many many many years ago.... when I'm a high schooler....... until now....

I has seen over hundred of dramas and some even watch it more than twice... I has spend many hours and sleepless night watching drama after drama .... and wake up in the morning still hungover from the drama last night....:)

When I'm away from my comfort zone (a.k.a my bed)...and without my baby (a.k.a labtop) or internet access ... All I want to do was hoping that time will pass quickly .... so I can go see my baby and watch my dramas ...hihihi... Sometime I caught myself thinking or daydreamings about a scene in a k-drama that I loved and wish that I will never wakeup...:)

People around me ... include my family and friends.... called me a "K-drama fanatic" ... and I am proud of it ... hihihi... I thinks is safe for me to say this ....BUT... "if water is the main source for human life... then k-drama is the main source for my living addiction." -SA-

In the name of my kdrama addiction, I bought the You're Beautiful Director's Cut DVD set that you're giving away. Ahahaha. I would have NEVER used a credit card on some sight I don't even know, in some country that doesn't even have proper english pages, but I couldn't resist. And I'm glad I didn't. I LOVE it!

It was my first kdrama back in December and I've been watching kdrama since then. I've seen You're Beautiful at least 10 times, with my mom, in HD and 1-2 times from the DVDs for the extra scenes. I've also shown it to friends of mine and gotten anyone I possibly can, obsessed with it.

When I have a few extra bucks, I'll buy some pig-rabbit stuff. Love that little guy. So, work work work, my lovelies, cause you're gonna love the DVD set! :D

I love to watch Kdrama since long time ago, even now I past my teenager, got married, still love it. Sometime I wonder whether I am too childish.
If I sit down and watch Kdrama, it's hard for me to stop and do something else. After I finish it, I'm gonna go online to find information about the actors that I like and sometime watch the drama all over again.

There is no Kdrama on TV where I live, so usually I have to download it or go to some Asian shop to buy it . Once, I went to my old school, borrow my friend's ID and pass ( cause I was no longer student) to log in the Internet in Uni and download the drama that I like. The bandwidth at my house only 10GB a month and divided for 5 users so download at home is impossible. Then the next day, my friend told me she receive an email from school informed that her account was blocked because I downloaded too much. It was lucky for me that she finished her exam already, otherwise she could not use Internet in Uni to study.

Needless to say how much my hubby has to put up with me each time I got addicted to drama. My newest addiction is You are Beautiful, I just finished it last week. This time, I watched till 4am, called in sick next day because I couldn't wake up on time. My hubby told me the dinner I cooked that day was strange and we end up buying take away for dinner because I couldn't remember what I put in, but the taste was terrible ( normally, I am a good cook). And we bought take-away for 2 days till I finished YRB.

Whenever I announce that I finish to watch the drama, my hubby would say " welcome back, honey, I missed you".
I think my hubby know and understand my addiction because once, he watched Full house continuous for 2 days without sleep just went to work, finished the shift, back home and watched Full House. But that was the first and the only time he crazy about drama.

it was about one year ago and i just had broke up with my boyfriend.actually he was the one who left me.i was so devastated and disappointed.and at such a time i found winter sonata and bae young joon.i don't know why but it really was like a medicine for me. i found sth in it that gave me comfort.i had to watch it everynight before i sleep.i was so addicted to it that i really could forget my sad love story.as if i fell in love again n could treat my wound.so bae young joon n winter sonata are always sth so imortant in my life.

I finished 54 ep. of Family's Honor in 3 (sleepless) days and that was during the week of final exams and papers. 12 hours before my 10 page essay deadline, I still had 20ish more ep. to go. Obviously due to procrastination and my long drama watch-list I hadn't prepared anything to write. So instead of watching, I LISTENED to the episodes while frantically typing my essay up like crazy. And here are the twists: First, I didn't understand Korean at all, but I couldn't help it. I needed to hear the sound of Korean drama to partially feed my addiction. Second I actually wrote my essay on the love story between Kang Jin's Mom and Ji Hwan's Dad in Will It Snow for Chirstmas? It was for my gerontology class. After I handed in the paper, I immediately went back, finished the show and freaking re-watched it all over again. It's K-razy.

Because of my Kdrama addiction...

-I have at least 2000 songs in my iTunes that are NOT in English. 80% of that is Korean ( some are Chinese and Japanese) . I have a total of 2654 songs in my iTunes.

-I learned how to read, write, and speak Korean like a 1st grader ( no maybe pre-K)

- I have 2 audio books in Korean, 1 writing book, and 2 guidebooks for South Korean Travel

- I cheered for anything South Korean team in world events especially Kim Yuna in the Olympics and The Taegeuk Warriors in the World Cup (they have a game on saturday!)

-I have a savings account specifically nicknamed "My Seoul Trip"

-I chose my primary care physician, opthalmologist, dentist and my oral surgeon to be Koreans or at least one looks Korean (she's Chinese)

-I look out for the fashion styles in Korea (when Reva flats became a hit last year in Seoulites/kpop idols and actresses, I started shopping in Tory Burch too)

-I went to Koreatown in L.A. for my birthday last year. I am from the O.C., and there I was walking around the Koreatown Plaza and the Galleria, eating sam gyup sal, I even went to The Wi Spa too (jim jil bang)!!!!! I was so happy to be in a sauna imagining all my Kdrama fantasies..

-I now have a very expensive collection of Korean DVDs that I bought through YAEntertainment and YesAsia, since Region 1 dvds for North America averages at least $80 per box set.. I have now at least 20 Korean dramas in my shelf.. The most expensive so far is Full House, I bought in Barnes and Noble for $120 plus tax. I also have 5 Korean movies in my DVD collection.

-I have a collection of Kdrama collectibles - pig rabbit, 16 kdrama soundtracks, 4 Kdrama posters, Coffee Prince planner, 3 earrings and 2 hair accesories of Lee Da Hae in My Girl, 4 earrings of Yoon Eun Hye in Goong, Prince Shin's Albert Doll, Crown Necklace of Yoon Eun Hye in Goong, Samsook Pig Doll, Chun Hyang's cellphone accessory for Mong Ryong, 3 volumes of the YAB comic and 2 volumes of the YAB novel - that are WRITTEN IN KOREAN, yeah I call them my korean reading skills practice book..

That's all for now.. I could not remember anymore.. Everybody's stories makes me laugh so hard!! At a certain level.. each one of us are kindred spirits..

My first drama was Stairway to Heaven, a few months after it was aired, since I was watching the Mandarin dubbed version of it. Looking back, I finally realize how cliche it was, but without the show, I wouldn't have been boosted into the Kdrama world. Back then, I started out as a clueless middle school student that just wanted to satisfy my television needs. But now I've gone through so many dramas, my expectations higher with each good drama I watch. There's one incident that I think proves my addiction to Korean dramas, despite not being a Korean.

During my sophomore year of high school, I decided to watch one of my all time favorites, Biscuit Teacher & Star Candy (who wouldn't adore Gong Yoo and Gong Hyo-jin!?), so I spent an entire Sunday re-watching it subbed in English, despite knowing there's school on Monday. I think I only slept for about an hour or two before going to class, totally beat from the previous night. Now, my first period teacher is a Korean born who moved to Boston as a child, so when he speaks in English, it's a strange cross between Bostonian and Korean accent. And it's even more foreign to me, since I live in the West coast. But anyhow, he began to talk in his usual fast pace voice, and I literally stared at him, confused, for minutes....because I was unable to distinguish whether he was speaking in Korean or English...yikes!

Just goes to show what can happen to a girl who's had one too many hours of listening to Korean and had too little hours of sleep.

:)

Due to KD addiction I one time watch Winter Sonata for 16+ hrs straight.

My friends did not see me around during the saturday activities and still did not see me at church the following sunday. They have been knocking at my door, calling me but to no avail. I did not have Breakfast, lunch and dinner... they were so worried that they were about to call our building manager and medical to check if something happened to me inside my room.... then they found out that I was just watching KD ... they were so mad at me... but I just though... well I was so engrossed in the world of BJY I forgot all about my world..... still ....I spend my weekeands in the Korean Drama world and I enjoy it very munch.....

Well.. HONG GIL DONG. Hah.

I fell, FELL in love with Hong Gil Dong. Before Hong Gil Dong, I only ever skimmed or read summaries of dramas, but darn those Hong sisters. I fell in love with the series after my sister did (but I love it much, much more), so I started fashioning my hair after Enok's. Hah. My sister would look at me and think, "You look familiar," but I never admitted to imitating Enok's hairstyle. Also, I've been on a crazy quest for Hong Gil Dong's red circle shaped glasses!! I still want them bad! Please let me know if you ever find any. =D I shared my love of HGD with EVERYONE, including my brothers, so they watched it too.. and.. we were gonna be Enok, Hong Gil Dong, and Mr. Wang for Halloween. It got to the point where I was searching for detailed images of Enok's costumes and favoriting them all just so I could start on making the costumes. I even made multiple trips to all the fabric stores in my area, searching for the correct material to use. Sadly, I wasn't able to make the costumes that year. 8( I'd still like to do it one of these days just to commemorate my infactuation with Hong Gil Dong.

We do what we do in the name of love.. =D

oh god. i have a lot of weird habits when it comes to watching dramas. in order for me to get more time to watch dramas, i bring my laptop into the bathroom so i can watch well im getting ready for school. i would dry my hair, brush my teeth, and take a piss or dump while watching my drama.

when i watched "what happened in bali", the ending made me so depressed so i started writing my own alternate endings for it lol.

i used to do role plays for whatever drama i was watching at the time with my sister. we would act out a certain scene of a drama. i remember always having fights with my sister because i wanted to be the main girl but she made me be the guy.

when shining inheritance was airing, i was so obsessed with it that i watched it in class on my phone. i also watched it when i was walking home from my bus stop and i ran into a pole.

there was also a time when my family rented the drama "damo" and we became obsessed with it. i threw tantrums and cried if my family watched an episode without me and i forbid them from watching it if i wasnt there. i even hid the dvds and remotes so that they would watch it. on the last episode, my whole family cried so much. we were passing around the tissue box and i saw my dad cry for the first time in my life. he looked so pitiful and cute like an abused puppy.

i started watching korean dramas since i was like 3 because im a korean and it was a ritual for my family. i was the only member of my family who became truly obsessed though. watching kdramas made me curious as to what dramas from other countries were like so it lead me to explore different cultures. this brought me to the conclusion that korean dramas are definitely the best.

Hi JB!
My first time ever posting in here.
Thanks for the opportunity to share our drama craze addiction..haha..

Well, my story is about Dae Jang Geum / Jewel in The Palace (although it wasn't my most fav drama ^^).
I live in Indonesia, and around Christmas 2005, one of the tv station aired this drama, 1 eps per day (mon to fri).
I got hooked after watched the earlier eps, then bcoz I couldn't wait another day to watch next epi, bought the dvd set, and watched it nonstop, only got 1-2 hours to sleep, woke up and watched it again.

My mom who was furious at me, yelling and asking what's keeping me up. She saw an epi, got hooked too.. and asking me to play the dvd from 1st epi..
I haven't finished it yet, and so I have to re-watch from 1st epi (-__-)
I also had to translate the conversation to Indonesian since dvd only came with English version, and mom's not familiar with english.
Then on the weekend, my brother (who lived in other city), came home, and saw the drama.. insisted to watch the 1st epi..(while mom and I haven't finished all the 54 eps -__- )

And we're still keeping up with the broadcasted epi, because in Indonesia, the tv station would dub the drama, and it's more convenient for mom to watch it in Indonesia, but she didn't want to miss out an epi on dvd.

So we spent Christmas watching Dae Jang Geum, crazed for the food all episodes... hahahaha...

What I learned is, never ever get my mom hooked on any drama that's airing on TV, that go for 50++ episode..
(the same story happen again when Boys Over Flower aired on tv... thank goodness it was "only " 25 epi)

#21 GoSmile!

I do the very same exact thing. I thought I was the only one!

Last year, when I was in the midst of my 'O' level exams (it's a really big exam in Singapore), I when on your site and read 1 recap of You're Beautiful. I convinced myself that it was major exams and I had to stop at there. With your second recap, I gave in and began to watch, even sometimes without subs, although I knew that I should be studying and not fangirling. I didn't go to the extent of skipping my exams, though, and I did well enough to end up where I wanted to go.

But the week my exams were over, I had to go overseas with my school for a trip to Europe. This was when the show was still airing. And the internet there was so frigging expensive, so I resorted to sitting by windows to get the best Wi-Fi reception and I stayed up to download and watch the episodes while trying to get over my jetlag. It didn't help that we were there for a Model United Nations conference and I had to be awake and ready to debate. I remember the day the last episode aired and we were supposed to leave Germany that day to return home. Due to staying up the whole night to download and watch the ending, I almost missed the coach that was to take us to the airport as I left my passport in the hotel. I sat in the coach for a second before realising that I left it on my bed. I was so tired that day. I managed to get my passport and go home with no problem, luckily.

Looking back, it feels kind of crazy to throw away studying time (and almost my flight back ) for a drama. But it was worth it, I loved watching it and reading your recaps.

Just a brief background about myself: I love Korean dramas!!! And I could empathize with some of the comments about watching it 16 hours straight. Or literally, living inside your room for a long period of time. Also, making sure you have available, and with-in a hand's reach, nourishments. Sometimes, I even feel disoriented when I have attuned myself to listening Korean for such long periods and then once I get outside my room I don't understand a word in Filipino in English. I even infuse some Korean on my daily language like aigoo, omo, kiyowo, jinjja, etc. I even talk to my friends about dramas as if they're family members or friends and usually launch myself into diatribes about how I hate this character, or how I cannot fathom why the drama is progressing that way, or how I love this person, etc.

I'm an EFL/ESL teacher so I basically teach English to foreigners, 80% of them are Koreans back in the Philippines (now I'm in Malaysia, and I mostly teach locals and foreigners as well). The worst or craziest thing I have done is (which I know is not really effective and I have had trouble with it :P) is I showed my class an episode or a movie with English subs so I "can show them how different grammar structure is in Korean and in English." Well, that's what I have written on my lesson plan. And we're not only talking about current dramas that you're currently following but I have shown episodes of dramas that I have enjoyed and liked before. And my students would be like so surprise I'm so in tune with K-entertainment they think I'm Korean in my previous life.

I would like to think so too!

ok, so i'm this HUGE drama addict (like everyone here :) ), but not many people know about it. I tried talking to my friends about it but they just find it weird. It feels like nobody in my university knows about kdrama, so it kinda feels lonely, that's why i love this post where everyone can share about their experience.
A few weeks ago, i had a really boring economy class. Basically, everyone is on his computer chatting or watching a movie while the boring teacher gets on with the lecture. And when i was about to doze off, i saw that a guy, two rows in front of me was watching Prosecutor Princess. I'm quite the timid type and i never talk in class, so i don't know if it was out of excitement for finally finding another drama lover, or just because it was Way more interesting than the creepy economic teacher, but i found myself almost screaming that I loved that show too. No need to say an embarrassing silence followed through my high-pitched (almost) scream, and everyone turned to look at the guy i was pointing at. Luckily it was the end of class, so i packed my things and stormed out class. I saw the same guy the week after and he sat next to me after he recognized me. More people think of me as strange but who cares, I now have a friend as addicted to dramas as I am, how cool is that! It nearly made me forget that embarrassing day..

i started with the korean drama addiction with KBS' IRIS. i was cramming for my labor law class when i decided to take a little break. i was looking for something to watch, then i stopped at KBS, cause i saw Kim Tae-hee. i'm not really familiar with her dramas, but i do recognize her from the Love story in Harvard. the first episode i've watched was 16, and i was hooked up instantly. it was then when i discovered this site, cause i was looking for more infos about that drama. :) that was pretty much the start of it :D now, i've watched every drama that you've recapped in this site HEHEHE. my brothers eventually got used to seeing me take the remote every 9pm and watch dramas in either KBS or SBS. sometimes i watch MBC on the net, too. but i dont really find their dramas entertaining. :D

BTW, i just finished 19 episodes of PAINTER OF THE WIND, and i cant find the 20th! Viikii's links are all broken, Youtube doesn't have it, and dramacrazy's videos doesn't work!! can you please help me find a site that has a working video? or just the recap is fine. please??? :) i really feel like crap now. hahaha 19 hours going to waste because the ending is nowhere to be found.

ugh. so NEAR, yet so FAR.

plaese help! :D

Well my story goes well with the dvd in question.. You're Beautiful... And mine is a little bit R rated.. It was the last episode of You're Beautiful and I was looking forward to it for a week,suddenly my husband had the timing to be a little lovey-dovey..what should I do.. Told him to wait for an hour until the drama finishes and I'll just follow him after.. Well he was grumpy at first,but he knows how I like Hon Gi .. After the show,when I got to our room he was snoring away.. When I laid down on our bed.. He said "was Lee Hong Ki more important than him".. So I told him Hong Ki was my "virtual boyfriend".. Then he responded.. Well then I hope you be happy with a virtual "lovey-dovey"..can't believe he's jealous...hahaha

yikes!!! the first thing that pop up my mind was....

i forgot that i am cooking while watching the k-drama and i smell some smoke then i ran to it and stop the fire..... and that teach me a lesson "cook first before watching k-drama"..... or else i might burn my house.....

You're Beautiful!!

I'm 21 years old. I was into korean drama since Autumn in My Heart era,I just watch it on local tv air time or borrowed vcd from my friends. The only original vcd I bought myself is Kim Sam Soon and Stairways to Heaven. I feel heartache when i spend over my little pocket money on idol, entertainment stuffs, although my favorite k pop group was SNSD, i never buy anything of theirs at all..

But then here comes the YB addiction that I myself could not explain it much.
YB air time of episode 6 to 10 was during my final exams of first semester in university. I couldn't study well just thinking of it all the time. If i have exam on the thursday or friday morning,i will keep thinking of finishing my exam as fast as i could so that i can download the chinese subbed YB latest episode faster.

I have the YB director cut DVD...i made my first ever debit card in order to purchase it.Make a lot of secretive purchasing behind my dear mother.She starts to suspect after seeing more and more stuffs coming to my house mail box but I manage to get over it by acting stupid.haha~

Pigrabbit doll, korean version OST 1 and 2,comic book and novel, 2010 calendar, and the ultimate seduction of all, the YB director cut DVD..
Everything above cost me over RM1000,approximately USD 320..its a wow number for me..I also doesn't know how i dug out the money to buy the things.hehe..

The hairpin was exorbitant and I manage to pull off myself from ordering it online. And that starts the time I go through shopping malls and stalls to find hairpin that looks like it. A small similarity would comfort my indulgence for the minam hairpin.

And after buying the director cut DVD i have not been watching it,took few piece of DVD to watch but doesn't want to scratch it so end up replaying YB episodes in my laptop. Over 3000 YB pictures in my hard disk,save it one by one those I love. Articles about YB,the fan made videos, Behind The Scenes videos, fan made writing keep me alive for the post YB era.

Its been half a year since YB ends but my worship towards it still is firing up..I view Baidu thread everyday, a new article about the cast cheer me up, and now, the ultimate day of Anjell fans are coming!Tomorrow JKS and PSH will hold on Anjell fan meeting!!if i'm capable to buy the air ticket i surely will be in Japan by now,sighs...but it's alright,the support to them will never fade!

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LOL! That's adorable! :D

Is he cute? Sorry, just had to ask... You know, just in case you guys are destined to be. ;)

Awww I wish I had a guy friend that liked dramas!

okay, so i'm a teenager, Korean-born in the States, and i've basically been watching snippets of and full episodes of a LOT of kdramas.
once i see a drama i like, i'm HOOKED. i stay up far past my lights-out time of 10:00(i go to a boarding school in the U.S.) and watch downloaded/streamed episodes of dramas the day, or rather the night, that they air, up until the series' end. i do this Monday-Thursday of every week, or into weekends, if i'm following 2 series in the same timeslot.
you're beautiful is probably the drama that i've been the most addicted to of all the dramas i've ever watched. whilst watching(awww pig-rabbit!! 장근석!*squeals*), i spent my free period of every Wednesday and Thursday during the drama's airing and would load+watch half of the episode during my free, and run to class..i mean RUN. i blame it on myself, since class started at 1:30, and i'd watch until 1:28...........sigh, oh dramas, why must thou be so addicting.
and then i'd get back from class, watch the rest of the episode, and fantasize about possible scenarios of the next episode, espeically if it was a thursday..
i did the whole stay-up-till-11-or-midnight-to-watch-an-episode-or-two-of-given-drama thing with The Woman Who Still Wants to Get Married..i still don't understand why that drama received low ratings..i LOVED that. and i also did it with Pasta, Personal Taste, a 16-hour marathon with My Girl, Coffee Prince, The Last Scandal of My Life, Air City, etc............all under my blanket under the 'watchful' eye of my dorm dean, who thankfully goes to bed after 10 every night
haha. so yeah, that was my, i guess, craziest experience(s) watching a drama
ahhhhh i really, REALLY want that pig-rabbit doll!! such a cute drama..
oh, just as an add on, have you thought of doing recaps for Baker King Kim Tak-gu?? it really doesn't matter when, as long as it happens..i really appreciate your recaps+insight..girlfriday too:)I'm finding that drama to be just as, if not more, entertaining than Bad Guy(i still love you Kim Nam-gil)...you gotta love the kid who plays the young Tak-gu though..
okay, i've ranted waaayyy too much. Thanks so much for all of your hard work!

Does it have to be one story, or can it be a collection of stories? Because I've got tons, though I'm not sure if they're gonna be crazy enough to win the prize.

People who know me well know that if I get into something, I REALLY GET INTO IT. My first k-drama was Full House. This all began when I was in a Sailormoon Live Action IRC chatroom and someone I became friends with there started sending me episodes of Full House. Needless to say, I got SO ADDICTED that I used to stalk the chatroom, waiting for him to come back online so I could get more episodes. And when he wasn't there I would rant and rave to the people who were there about how he WASN'T there to feed my addiction. They all realized that I had become a monster at that point.

The summer after I graduated high school I started watching Dae Jang Geum during the summer. I spent HOURS downloading all 54 episodes and watching every single one of them. I got so addicted to the show I bought all three volumes of the dvds from Yesasia. At the same time. And if you know anything about dvd sets from yesasia, they're pricey. Why did I buy them at the same time? Because if you did, you also got a free CD and a DJG special dvd FOR FREE (of course the CD I picked was the DJG OST). I have marathoned the dvds at least 3 times. That's 162 hours (and that's just to rewatch it). Also, I usually burn off dramas and delete them off my hard drive as I finish watching them or need to clear space. However, despite the fact that I have the dvd sets, I still refuse to delete them off my hard drive. Why? Because sometimes I like the convenience of opening the files on my hard drive and skipping to whatever scene I feel like watching instead of having to deal with the dvds.

When I got into University I decided to take Korean. Not Vietnamese (my ethnicity), which I don't speak very well at all. Not Spanish, which I probably could get more use out of seeing as how I live in Southern California. I took Korean, because I wanted to be able to watch K-dramas without subs. I read, write, and speak Korean better than Vietnamese (although don't worry I did take up a Viet class my last year since I wanted some easy A's).

My 2nd year of uni I went to Yonsei for study abroad. The second weekend or so they offered a weekend trip to Jeju island. JEJU ISLAND. I decided not to go because I said it was too expensive to pay for the trip costs. While this was partially true, it actually had to do more with the fact that a field trip to filming locations was offered the same weekend and I ~had~ to go and be all fangirly. One of the locations we were to visit was the DJG "theme park". Yea. (fyi, NEVER go there. It was horribly disappointing). Also while in Korea, I went on a boat trip down the Han river, where we passed by the 63 building. I don't usually take pictures, but of the few I took from the Han river at least half of them were of the 63 building. I emailed them to a friend later that day to show that I actually had visited the building from My Girl.

For Christmas last year I asked my cousin to get me the Mong-ryong cell charm from Delightful Girl Choon-hyang even though it costs about $20+. I could have asked for something different. I could have asked for a nice sweater, or a blu-ray dvd, or I could have asked her to take me out to a nice dinner. But no, I had to have that cell phone charm. I had been wanting it for the past 5 years. I also bought a used charm from a user on Soompi since I didn't want to ruin the nice new one my cousin bought for me. I was right though, the used one broke after three months. It's now stowed away safely with the nice one in my desk storage. I pull it out every now and then and admire it the way Mong-ryong does in the time skip and he's pining for Choon-hyang.

And the coup de grâce that shows just how crazy a k-drama fan I am? I was a crazy Goong fangirl. So much so that I started a website for my obsession (click on my name to go to the site). I did everything from graphics, to reviews, to editorials. And once Goong was over, I added more content by covering more dramas. But still, even though it's been 4 years since that show ended and I've gone on to do other things, Goong still nags at the back of my head, mostly because I was so dissatisfied with the overall quality and direction the drama took. I have been fantasizing about how things would have been if I had control of the drama. It's gotten to the point where I've been outlining what I want to happen, and once I hash out all the fine details I'm gonna write a fan-script. I haven't started yet because I've been struggling on character development and certain plot points because I want it to be good. Although I know no one is ever going to see it, I treat it as if I'm actually gonna try to make something of it. My outline is close to 10 pages, single spaced, size 10 font and it's not even closed to being finished.

You must all think I'm crazy now.

Most kids wanted to be doctors, lawyers, and presidents when they were growing up. I was a little special, because I wanted to be a Korean drama writer. I first decided I wanted to be a Korean drama writer after watching Autumn Fairy Tale. My 13 year old self was so amazed at how a TV show could trigger so many different kinds of emotions out of me and how people were able to create this madness. I wanted to be one of them and be innovative and creative. I wanted to make people feel all kinds of emotions while watching a drama that I wrote.

To start it off, I began writing fanfics about Shinhwa because I was crazy in love with them. In fact, it was Shinhwa that sparked my interest in Korea, pushing me to learn how to type in Korean so I could search for their information. My love for Shinhwa was great, but my stories were sloppy and not really thought-out. Even so, people seemed to enjoy it and it gave me more confidence in writing. I even told Eric's mother, who is good friends with my mom, that I would write Eric a better drama after his disastrous debut of a drama "I'm Running." Eric's mom told me to keep my word (but this was all before "Firebird," so I have no idea if I'm still held accountable).

As my Shinhwa fanfic writing grew, I started venturing out to non-gasoo stories and began writing full-length online novels. My readers loved my stories, and long story short, I somehow ended up getting a book publishing deal with some random company in Thailand. I still get royalties to this day.

Most of my friends thought that I would grow out of Korean dramas by the time I graduated high school. Oh, how wrong they were. My obsession with Korean dramas only grew as I started taking Korean language classes at my university. With every final presentation, I did something related to Korean dramas: the stereotypes and typical plots of Korean dramas (you can find my videos online!), different forms of dramas - makjang, etc. My friends and peers thought I was some Korean drama obsessed geek....which isn't....really....a lie.

During my last year at my university, I decided I was going to take it easy as a senior and do an independent study course. At NYU, students are able to create their own course of study with a professor working closely with them. I figured since I watch Korean dramas all the time, I might as well get some credits for it. My independent study course was called "Korean dramas, and their effect on Society." After a long period of effort and determination, my course was approved. I closely watched five different dramas and focused on two different topics - how women, especially women in their 30s, are treated in society, and how Korean dramas view the Korean drama industry (10 points if you can guess which dramas I watched). I wrote a 10-page essay and a 60+ page novel, both typed in Korean, highlighting what I found out during my "research" process, aka watching 80+ hours of Korean dramas. I got an A in the course.

Looking back now, it's kind of amazing how far I've come, from my crying at every episode of Autumn Fairy Tale to graduating college as a published author. I can only wonder what my Korean drama obsession will bring out of me, and I'm just as scared and excited to see the results. Now as an ambitious college graduate who is still madly in love with Korean dramas, I am currently writing a new chapter of my life: moving to Korea and enrolling in a drama academy so I can once and for all, fulfill my childhood dream of becoming a Korean drama writer.

I don't really think this will qualify for the contest, but I just wanna share my close brush with K-drama madness---way before I got hooked into it.

In 2006, I was covering the store opening of a major French luxury brand in Taiwan (I'm a journalist). At the launch party that evening, the guest performer was this guy named Rain whom I'm never heard of (yeah, beats me). I didn't understand why those rich taitais, dressed head-to-toe in designer togs and dripping in diamonds, were screaming his name. Midway through his performance, he exited the stage, came down and stood next to us (we were at the foot of the stage), as his backup dancers continued performing. I thought, what's the big deal? He's not even that good-looking; sure, he's tall and had a hot bod, but I didn't see the appeal. That was then, of course.

One of my friends, already a big K-drama fan at the time, wanted to strangle me when I told her the story. Turns out, Rain was at the peak of his popularity in 2006; this was right after Full House. (I was a Rain convert after watching it eventually.)

I had traveled to Korea a few times before, but I've never seen it the same light as after getting hooked in K-dramas. A young US-educated Korean woman chided me for watching dramas; she said only ajummas who have nothing better to do watch dramas in Korea. A lot of the things they show in dramas (say, guys piggybacking their girlfriends) don't really happen in real life, she said; they're all a lie. I didn't care.

The next time I was there, it was to cover a Hallyu event (I guess it was in late 06 or spring of 07). Come to Mama! :D We visited the atelier of some Korean fashion designers, one of whom was the costume designer for one of the leads in Lovers In Paris (I have yet to see that one).

The finale event was a musical variety cum fashion show at the Seoul City Hall, with Hallyu actors walking the runway. Already I was watching daily dramas on KBS World and Arirang, so I was familiar with some of the actors. I was with a friend who's a journalist based in Seoul, and even she didn't know some of the actors; I did because they were in daily dramas haha! (Turns out most of them weren't big stars, though my friend said the musical performers were huge stars.)

Some of the posts here are so funny, some I'm making mental check lists of (done that; yeah, done that, too.) Once I paid online so I could stream one drama since it only worked with Windows (I was using a pre-Windows Mac then). Of course, this is nothing compared to a friend who flies to Singapore just to find K-drama DVDs.

These days, I'm so hooked on Korean culture I don't just watch dramas, I also watch shows like Happy Together, Chitchat with Beautiful Ladies, and un-subbed KBS Awards on New Year's Eve! (I'm honestly very embarrassed to be admitting all these.) Sometimes when I'm interviewing a Korean person, I show off by dropping the few Korean words I know into the conversation. Always works like a charm! :D

oh as an addendum, I'd like to mention that I was one of those people that got up at 5AM to watch the live streams of Goong. Now I'm done.

And now I know you all must think I'm off my rocker.

My stories are not that outrageous, but I shall share them anyways.

My k-drama addiction started summer of junior year before senior year. I was channel surfing one night and stumbled upon "A Prince's First Love". I fell in love w/ Sung Yuri & Cha Tae Hyun and I was addicted to the OST. At that time I did not know that there were free fansubs and streaming, so I searched online for any local korean movie rental place. Then one day after school, it was raining cats and dogs, and although I should be driving home to be safe and dry, I just had to drive to the korean rental place and ask them if they had the drama. I made an account, put down a 10$ deposit, and borrowed all 18 episodes on VHS and watched it without understanding a single word. After that I watched Full House and bought the OST. I shared my addiction with all of my friends and now we are all k-drama addicts. My friend even ditched 1 and 2 period of class because she had to finish Full House and this was during AP Testing time. For my 18th birthday, my friends all pitched in to buy me the original Director's Cut DVD box then we passed it around to everybody and the addition became contagious.

I was also a crazy die-hard YAB fan. I read your review of the first and second episode, then watched the raw and absolutely fell in love w/ the characters. After that, I watched every single episode live. At the time, I still had school, but it didn't matter. I would study until midnight, set the streaming program, and set my alarm for 5AM so that I can watch the drama during it's actual streaming time. At the same time, I would be on soompi reading translations of what's being said and chat-tango w/ fellow fans discussing the drama. Those were fun times :D
I also joined in the project organized by fans on soompi to send "supportive messages" to the actors/actresses on the set. And now I am proud to say that I own the limited edition director's cut DVD box set :D

I hope you have enjoyed reading this as much as I have enjoyed living it. This was a fun event and I also enjoyed reading other people's addiction stories.

Thank you,
Nancy

my drama addiction started a while back ever since Snow White or Taste Sweet Love and I have been watching dramas since recently I finished P.P I watched it in one day the next day i had to go to school and i was having mood swing like crazy first i was in the hallway like nothing then a two girls passed by me and they where talking about the other girls shoes I startes crying so much i was taken to the nurses office and when they asked me what was wrong the woman reminded me of Hye Ri's mom i cryed even more it was so embarrising when they gave me the cup of water i chocked on it i had to leave early because i was crying so much xD...

@79 Shortie
actually he is!! And i've decided to learn Korean because of him now. Who would say no to a half-korean cutie who is willing to teach you??

Best idea ever Javabeans and Girlfriday, i love reading all those funny stories!!

i've been watching korean dramas since i was 15. but not until less than a year ago i started to follow and watch korean dramas religiously. between then (around july last year) till now i have, not only watch but finished 36 dramas all together - i still don't have the guts to drop a drama half-way, cause i always wished and have hope that they'll turn out to be great (tho in most cases they don't). if i have to add other dramas that i have watched before that i think there are more than 40.

some of my 'achievements or record ' on how long it took me to finish a drama
1) i finished 28 episodes of brilliant legacy in less than 6 days - i know it may still sound 'meh~' if i have to compare with all the other drama addicts here, but considering last year i was still a 'newbie' (and still am) in this whole kdrama world, and i am still a full time student, and that time i was having a m.a.j.o.r international exam. so,i thought i worth the mention.
2)my best record so far i think would be with the drama 'who are you?', where i finished the entire 17 episodes in less than 38 hours.

i successfully convinced my two younger sisters to watch you're beautiful, and also 2 of my best friends whom have never watch any korean dramas before - and proud of it, cause i have this really snobbish sound in my head telling me 'thanks to you, they didn't missed out on a great drama'
nowadays, when i have no korean dramas to watch, for some reason it gets in to my head and i for some reason have this worrying feeling. and i always tell all these korean drama and entertainment news as well as the plot and frustration i have with dramas to my sister who is not a bit interested. every time i finished a drama i would write it up on my small tiny little blog where i posted up my thoughts and ramblings on the dramas that i have watch-and i would spend hours writing them, even though i was fully aware that no body reads them. =))

my obsession (or i rather address it as passion) on korean drama reached on a different level late last year and early this year with will it snow for christmas?-since i watched it online waiting for the next episode was an agony. i tried hard to resist myself from reading your wonderful recaps before actually watching the episode myself.

when, it comes to watching korean dramas, i can pretty much take even a high dose of it at one time frame. i can handle up to 4 dramas at a time with out mixing anything up. there are even times when i watch two dramas at the same time, when i say at the same time i mean, i can load up one episode of drama A and another episode of drama B and watch them alternatively, so that i wont waste any time while waiting for each other to load.

oh ya, one random thing, you know when you watch a drama and you just CANNOT wait to see and find out what happens on the next episode, but you have no choice other than to wait. then when you go to sleep, the continuation of the drama comes in your dream, just like the way you wished it would turn out!
(this happens to me in brilliant legacy and wisfc, and recently pasta-well, in pasta's case, it wasn't really a continuation but rather a random scene).

but then,when i read all of the things that have been posted by others, i realized i still have a long way to go. but still, i think sharing stories with each other about the thing that brings a lot of people together, is still worth the time writing and reading them.

because of my obsession with this whole korean drama thing, i also begin to fall in love with the culture.and i think i speak for many as well, where everything about it excites you. i started to eat korean food, use korean beauty products and even use eating utensils made in korea. and not forgetting uses some korean words in my sentences, eg. aigoo, omo, etc. my hand phone chain is 'big-rabbit' from yab, after watching the first few episodes of cinderella sister, i use chopstick to tied my hair, i even bought a silver/greyish colored pair of flats-tho not exactly similar as the one gu jun pyo bought for jan di in bif, but..you know what i mean.

i'm a daily reader of dramabeans, i looked up to your drama rating everytime i wanted to watch something. tho i have no interesting story to tell yet, it's a blast reading others stories on to what extant have they went to for the sake of dramas. i wonder how much more dramas i'm gonna watch in one year time, looking back at the past one year, i have spent a significant portion of my allowance on boxset, spend an unbelievable amount of time watching, shed a lot of tears, burst in to laughter and have checks cramps due to constantly smiling over adorable scene, and got all worked up with annoying characters...but still worth it.

Oh my dear kdramas friends, who can forget "All above Eve" & "Autumn's Tale"?

It all started with Jang Dong Gun and Chae Rim when I was only 13 years old one decade ago. In the good old days when hallyu wave was not as strong as today, there wasn't this thing called "original voice" in vcds (as we once called them). So I had to sit through torturous hours of dubbed voices while drooling over the romance between our main couple.

Or who can forget the times when I would glue myself to the screen on weekend nights just to catch the tap-inducing "Autumn's Tale" (Oh Moon Geun Young!) and repeat the classic lines over and over and include them in my conversations. The craziest thing I did for kdrama? That will be sprouting only kdrama lines for one whole day with my friends!

"I want to be a tree in my next lifetime" (Autumn's tale!!)

Oh the good old days =))

I started watch Kdrama since in the college
My first Kdrama was All About Eve with cast Jang Dong Gun and Chae Rim but my Kdrama addiction started after married five year ago.
When i have nothing to do, i like watching Kdrama, and when i become fascinate with the story, i can watching nonstop from night till morning and i will stop if my husband call me to sleep coz early morning i have to work.
If l likes the stories, i will rerun watching the stories over and over again (like Kdrama You Are Beautiful)

I like Kpop too , and I joining international forum like soompi, asianfanatics, dramabeans, etc to search information about new Kdrama eventhough i know i have a bad english, for me just being pasive member its okay coz i can read others post and the most important is the spoiler. The lastest Kdrama that i watch is KBS My Country Calls but dramabeans didnt make the recap, so sad.

Nowadays i like to watch Kdrama online in the office especially when i was bored with my work, and listen to Kpop, and when the world cup begin, i become fans of South Korea football team, support Ji Sung and his team mate. Fighting!!!

My name is Kim Sam Soon got me hooked on Kdrama. I flew to Korean, Taiwan, Hong Kong and even China looking for dramas that cannot be found here. I will stay awake to finish the series. I go on line every day not to check on anything except Korean dramas. OMG everyone in my home thinks I am really crazy.

@ Anbal11, there should be a drama based on you two x) so cute!!!

I bet that economy class isn't so boring anymore xD

Ohh, there must be a lot of cuties in college. I can't wait to go, there's absolutely no cute guys in my school; so my life is currently revolving around homework, studying, dramas.
So right now, I'm totally envious of you!

this is so embarasssing to say but i thought just sharing for the fun of it. this is my first time writing though.

i remember my kroean addition started probably when i was 16. Now going stronger after ten years and counting.

i used to be able to watch all night through (not that i dun now). i remember once during college, i watched a drama series all the way from 8pm until the next mornign 7am and went to church. Well, i was nodding off in church. i went back home at ten plus and continue the drama series all the way till lunch without any sleep. i was so sleep deprived then

now that i am older, i cant do that anymore definitely. i like watching my dramas without having to need to wait for the next episode so usually i will wait till it ends? and i will try not to watch during weekdays. i need my 8 hours sleep for work and i know that if i start i will never be able to stop. but well, i did that once too many times which make me end up with only 5 hours of sleep and looking like a zombie at work.

i will not step out of the house during weekends because i always get deprived of my korean dramas. my boyfriend is always pulling me out to either go for lunch or dinner but i will always persuade him to bring food back for me instead. i REFUSED to get off my bed..i used to watch all hong kong, taiwan, japan and korean but now i fully and solely concentrate on korean! haha.

I am glad i found dramabeams! its my source of entertainment at work. I only knew about here recently which googling for smile you sypnosis. and OH MY the show is fabulous that i am rewatching it again and again. I LOVE THEIR CHEMISTRY TOGETHER. and yes! i will always stop by your post every 2 to three hours to find new posts and also to see if smile you have been updated!!! its in my favourites now. ha.

my company blocks nearly all forums and i am so glad this is not one of them. i am usually a fast worker but since finding dramabeams, i have slowed down a lot cause i read one paragraph, work 5 to 10 min and read again. and this whole cycle just repeats

THANKS DRAMABEAMS!!!

Sorry, but this'll be a bit long.

I was in my freshman year of highschool, and back then, I had a pretty one-track mind. One day, I just stumbled across Full House, the kdrama starring Rain. Seeing as I wasn't into the Asian culture back then, I only recognized Rain from The Colbert Report, so I decided to watch it on a whim. Because American TV doesn't having anything like korean dramas, this was the first time I was watching something that was so different; i was hooked. I unknowingly kept watching into the night, and soon, it was time for school. I'd stopped watching around the last episodes, and, as you know, those are always the most frustrating, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Full House -_- Well, by that time, I completely hated the other female in the love triangle, the one that fights for the love of the male lead against the main female. I was completely drained of energy, and instead of wanting sleep, I wanted the b!@#$ to die. My sleep deprived mind could only think that one thought, and previous episodes and everything Full House was on constant play in my drowsy head. teenage girl + new obsession - sleep = impending doom. So, it was in this condition that i arrived in first period. Well, here's where the shit goes down. My first period teacher is a young, pretty female. She's half Chinese and half some other Asian nationality. So, I was sitting at my desk, and my entire exhausted self was completely engulfed with thoughts and fantasies of killing and cussing out the "other woman" on Full House, completely oblivious to everything going on around me.( Again, i used to have a pretty one-track mind.) So the teacher comes up to me and says something, and I, for a brief moment caused by my COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED and hate-for-the-female-antagonist filled mind, mistaken my teacher for the Full House character, and say, " What is it now, b@#$ ? Why the f@%$ are you always complaining?," Pro - the incident was talked about for months, and i was awarded with the reputation of "total badass". I had the future dropouts and druggies coming up to me and starting conversations. Con - suspension. and, I had a crush on that teacher. Damn it.

Hi Javabeans and Girlfriday!

There are already sooooo many entries!!!

I want it! Give it to me! Let me win!!! hahaha.

I am a crazy drama addict that get other people addicted to dramas. I am sure they hate me now as it has taken over their lives!!

My brother called me 2 weeks ago and begged me to download the last 3 episodes of Personal Taste for his wife. They had a problem with their internet connection and she was desperate to finish it! He kept calling me every 10 minutes to check on the progress and wanted to come by to get it late at night. He has only visited me once and we live on the opposite ends of town!

I am just glad that my internet connection is superfast and reliable. I don't know what I'll do if I can't watch my dramas!

I really don't know how to relate my story here , although I've been an avid reader of Dramabeans for a long time now , I haven't even posted a single post ... I just enjoy reading recaps ,K news and comments of the readers ... also , my post is a little embarrassing since nobody ever mentioned about sex life here while watching Kdrama .... I don't know if it is even considered as an entry since what I'm about to share as an obsession is not Kdrama but a reality show entitled WE Got Married ... although I've been watching Kdramas for as long as I remember , and have stayed up countless nights just to watch dramas , nothing can ever compare to this obsession about the Lettuce Couple of WE Got Married , Hwang Bo and Kim Hyun Joong ... I think they joined WGM in May of 2008 , but I haven't started watching them until August 2008 ... I think I ran out of good Kdramas to watch at the time so I decided to give WGM a chance ... when I started watching their cuts from episode 9 , I was hooked ... never before have I felt this way about 2 people in the Korean entertainment ... I got so crazy about them that I started to watch the shows they were in aside from wgm ... Hwangbo's Xman days , HyunJoong's shows when he was still starting in some variety shows , SS501's activities and songs , etc. etc. . I even became a member of SOOMPI forums , chatrooms , just to talk about these 2 persons ... I got so crazily obssessed in watching their WGM cuts raw, and eng subbed , over and over again , that I neglected my husband , and haven't had sex with him for 6 months !!!!! believe it or not , I really did that ... I always stay up late to replay their cuts , and talking with the people in the chatroom about JoongBo after their episode for the week aired , and waiting for the online translations of the kind JoongBoers who understood Korean ...
I am married for 11 years , and have 2 kids , but my hubby and I have regular sexual relations in all these years , except during that time of my JoongBoaddiction ... My hubby never complained ( he was very understanding ) ... I know he has his needs , but I'm glad it didn't cause a rift to our marriage ... he even kindly bought me an ipodtouch so that I can download the JoongBo cuts and watch them anytime anywhere ... Thankfully , our sexlife is now back to normal , as my addiction to the Lettuce couple lessened a bit ... I'm still into them after almost 2 years of their WGM stint , but I'm glad I have once experience this once in a lifetime craziness over a Korean reality show ... I hope I won't experience that feeling again , fearing that my hubby won't be as understanding and as kind as before , and file for a divorce in the future ...
I rest my case ....
Thank you for this blog dramabeans !!!!
Back to my lurking mode ....

My mum and I were watching Sassy Girl Chun Hyuang from one in the afternoon till midnight. We were sighing because we couldn't watch any longer as we had to wake up at 4 am to catch a flight for a holiday overseas. So, being sleep deprived, we went to sleep only to realise that Sassy Girl Chun Hyuang's scenes and music were still playing in our heads and NO! WE COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL! Guess what(: we got up in the end, continued to watch the drama and just headed straight to the airport. My mum and I, well at least me, were still quite discontented because we couldn't finish the last few episodes.

let see...i started watching K series Between dec 09 - Jan 10.Its the re run of Boys over flower and its dubbed in the local language. unfortunate and fortunate that i will be travelling in South Korea for buss during the last part of the series. so i thought of getting a copy of the series so i can hear the actual voice of the actors. i kept on watching it until the cds are scratched! i end up asking my friend from there to buy me another set! and then i wait for new series and would watch (thru streaming) it after work until the wee hours (i don't mind if its a work day the next day heheh).

i asked my friend again to buy me other dvds of K series (and movies too; i must have watched around 10 series since i started.not bat considering i worl full time and i live an active life :) )...my all time fave so far are Coffee Prince and Boys over Flower! when i feel low i watch it! hhehhehe ah and i am taking Korean lessons now. i get so frustrated if there's no eng subtitle right away! and because i see a lot of korean food while i watch the series (and from my trip) i got so curious! i tried once and been going around to check on the Korean restaurants for food! LUVVV it!

At the grand age of 37 I discovered K-dramas via a link to an episode of Boys Over Flowers. Being an Indian, I was used to tear jerking dramas, but not to cute handsome guys.

Back to the point - I got so hooked on BOF that when my boss was out on a business trip for 5 days, I booked the small meeting room and watched the entire drama on-line. That's right folks - I used company time to watch the entire drama!!

Do I feel guilty? Not an iota - Just seeing Kim Bum makes everything alright in my eyes.

Since BOF I have watched countless K-dramas, movies, started learning Korean language and even cooking Korean recipes. I learnt there was something called "BB cream" and that Korea had a fantastic range of cosmetics. Everything about Korea intrigues me - but its people the most - all are so beautiful (I am shallow that way). I am now waiting for the right time to approach my company for a transfer to Korea!!

Well thats how much my life has turned after watching K-dramas and reading dramabeans.