If I recall correctly my first drama love was "My Name Is Kim Sam Soon" which I saw back in 2009 or 2010. After that I watched a few k-dramas on TV when I had nothing better to do, but I wasn't that into them until I saw "Secret Garden" (I started watching it 'cause of Hyun Bin). Now I'm hooked and dramas have completely replaced latin soap operas that I used to watch when I was a kid/preteen.

The drama that brought me to the dark side was the gem of gems "you're beautiful" just one look and i was in love.

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im not proud but my first drama love was playful kiss!

Full House was my first, but My Lovely Sam-soon was the one I fell in love with. Hyun Bin gets hotter every year and is still my #1 celebrity crush!

Pasta was the first drama that I watched all the way through (I tried watching "Twinkle, Twinkle" but never got into it), and it had a huge impact on me. It was a very dark time in my life, but watching that simple but beautiful love story was able to put a smile on my face. Since then I've watched many dramas and loved most of them, but there will always be a special place in my heart for Pasta.

P.S.: Are there any other guys that watch dramas, or am I the only one out there? It seems like the names in the comments are pretty much all girl's names. Not that it will change my feelings about them, but I have to ask.

OH MY GOSH, my first drama that brought me to the dark side...would have to be GOONG. Prince Shin stole my heart and made me cry side by side with Shin Chae Kyung when he left her to go to THAILAND to be with the person that should not be named. I was so piss off but then he won me over with that STUPID SIMPLE BACK HUG. DANG IT! Prince Shin, you are the one for me. Truly. THANK YOU JAVABEANS for this wonderful site and everyone who has contribute to it. YOU GUYS are WAY AWESOME!! (=

Congrats!! 5yrs doing something you love must feel so great, and believe me that your work is appreciated :)

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Let's see here, first ever drama?
Coffe Prince- The Story of how kdramas met Me

Year: 2009
I was just flippin through channels when I saw this weird channel I had no idea we even had and there it was, Coffee Prince with spanish subtitles. I remember it was Episode 2, I just changed it when this incredibly cute guy (Han Kyul) was buying clothes for this very effeminate boy (Eun Chan) which when he talked sounded so much like a girl!!! I was perplexed why I didn't change the channel but the guy was INCREDIBLY cute that the remote just evaporated from my mind.

What really made me fuse to the couch for SEVERAL hours was that these "boys" were going on dates to let women know they were gay...And boy have I laughed to no end with the hijinks that ensued. From pretend kissing, to skipping on the streets and old ladies fawning... it just filled me with so much glee I ended up watching the entire series back to back and can only remember going to bed as the sun was rising....

I can't even begin to describe what this drama means to me, I have watched it over 15 times and I think I'll never grow tired of it.
The drama has it's flaws but I think what I really LOVE about it is that it really portrays what falling in love looks like and feels like. The way you stare at someone at random moments of the day or when they just pass by. The way you find ways to tease or prolong a moment with the other person. Those little moments in the drama just felt so meaningful and very realistic, something I usually didn't see in almost all shows I watch.
And Gong Yoo, Oh lord let's just say I'll go through any lengths to see whatever movie or drama that man is in.
Since then I've seen a very VERY long list of dramas from Japanese to Taiwanese but Kdramas will always have a big place in my heart.

In a nutshell bored days in front of the TV can lead to life altering scenarios, and I wouldn't have it ANY other way.
;D

First love? Definitely Autumn Tale (aka Autumn Story, Autumn in My Heart). That's when my long one-sided love with Won Bin started as well. I cannot believe that was over a decade ago. Wow, I have been obssessed ever since, but the memories of that drama have become like a fossil engulfing most of my heart... hm.

Lovers in Prague.

I didn't know what had hit me, but I liked it (once I got done destroying a month's worth of tissues in 2-days' time) and kept coming back for more. I thought I'd been dropped down the deepest darkest drama hell-hole when I got assigned Asian dramas to review, but now I know I'm not in Iowa, I'm in heaven!

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Happy 5th anniversary Dramabeans!!

The first drama that hooked me to the kpop land was, funnily enough, Get Karl! (it isn't something famous like bbf or you're beautiful)
I came across that drama when I was watching a Chinese TV cable and I was sooo into it that I was determined to find a way to watch it without any delay. And so I found the links on the internet and that's how I stumbled to... the wonderful world of KDrama Land :D
and I have to admit, it's the you're beautiful recap in Dramabeans that brought me back to KDrama land when I lost my passion a while back. LOL

Fullhouse!!
I remember watching it during my 3rd yr high school summer break. It's almost 6-7 yrs. ago. >< My cousin was able to borrow a copy of it from her classmate and at that time it is in VCD format(w/c means 1ep per cd.) We finished it for only 3days!!(I consider it an achievement because we used to finish a 16-ep kdrama for a month). And this made me realize that it's fun watching subbed dramas compare to the dubbed ones. :D

My first Kdrama was "My lovely Kim Sam Soon"
i watched it In Arabic so i didn't Knew that it was korean ^_^

BOYS BEFORE FLOWERS! my first in korean I watched few episodes in Kbs world then continue in youtube.

Winter Sonata! THE drama which introduce the world of korean drama to the world!
Gosh....i can't imagine how the years flew by and how k-dramas have changed since then.

Why do I suddenly feel very old? Compared to the series that are being mentioned, mine seem ages ago. The first series that got me into watching Korean series is Winter Sonata. It still is one of my favorite Korean series to watch. ;-)

My first complete drama was actually "A Love To Kill"! I have no idea why I finished it.

My first love? Hm, probably Dal Ja's Spring ^^

My first K-Drama was Secret. I don't know if any one have seen it. It's an old one that was shown on the international channel. It was by accident that my husband and I stumbled upon the international channel and this drama. Ever since then I never stop watching Korean drama. Kim Ha Neul, Ha Ji Won and Ryu Siwon looked really young this drama.

Happy 5th Anniversary Dramabeans!

The first drama I ever watched was Sad Love Story. After that, I was hooked.

hey lovelies,
congrats on 5 amazing years!!
I check this website first thing when I wake up and last thing before I sleep :)
guess I'm just that addicted
xx

p.s. the drama that hooked me was delightful girl chun-hyang; I watched it all in 2 days and from then on, I was done for ahaha

First Drama love. Delightful girl choonhyang!!

coffee prince

My first kdrama was Coffee Prince. I watched it all in one day!

My first lover: Princess hours.

At the age of 14, I fell sooo in love with this kdrama that it made me sneak into my AUNTS room to use her computer and i watched till 2am every night till I finished the whole series. I watched the whole drama 5-6 times THAT YEAR ITSELF. *dreamy look insert here!*

HOTELIER!

It was classic, simply mesmerizing!
Bae Yong Jun was at his best even with his crooked teeth :)
The kiss at the lift! OMG!!! so Hot!!! the only kiss to have made a girl's lips bled....

KSW, Song Yoona, and the little SHG back then...it was first love for me.

my first kdrama love is' successful story of a bright girl', starring jang hyuk & jang na ra.. =)

Iljimae!

I have been watching korean dramas for a long time, my first being Autumn's Tale when I was like 7!

But my first love is actually Iljimae! (haha years later my first drama)

I used to just watch dramas on the DVD with my mum,
but Iljimae was the first one which I actually actively go on the internet to search for the drama to watch ahead of time :D

so, thats my first love!

sweet, but not always the best :D

Hmmm the drama that started it all... I started watching Here Comes Ajumma reruns when I happened to catch the first episode on the "Korean channel" (sometimes it became Eastern European late at night). That was the seed, which later turned into my stumbling onto Coffee Prince, which is DEFINITELY the drama that brought me to the dark side.

time really flies... and I dont really recall the very first drama. I started out watching Taiwanese and Canto series way before Kdrama.

Dont really recall the very first one I watched (may have been Full House or My Girl) but I must say that Dramabeans is definitely the 1 that kept my interest going.... looking forward to episodes week after week, latest news, new series to look out for and which series to watch next. Without Dramabeans, I (like many who dont understand the language) would probably have been clueless.

A big thank you to you and all those involved in Dramabeans! Aja fighting... keep going for decades more to come!

I stumbled upon a Korean drama on tv before I knew of such dramas. It was Ice Girl from 2005. It was kind of a crazy plot but I became a lover of K dramas since then. After I bought my first DVD, Winter Sonata, with sub-titles , I just feel in love with the Korean culture, story lines and the directors perception of the emotions.
Absolutely love them!

You Are My Destiny
Reasons:
.I <3333 SNSD esp. Yoona
.Little Girl back then, No Comp(Horrifying huh?). Only Weekend Drama on while I was a little girl.
.I just Love KDramas, (prob. cuz im filled with so much drama) sighh...
.Main Character PRETTY <--- Pretty cute kinda

SO YEAH, my first drama thingy...

hehe, my first drama was Dae Jang Geum which i watched when i was 7. Brawled my eyes out in the sad scenes. It was so good, even my parents let me pull a all nighter just to finish it :DDD

then i rewatched it years later and same thing happened again.

and now, k-drama is my life >:D

My first drama, the one that sunk its menacing claws into my sleep patterns and eye sockets, was My Girl. Hook. Line. Sinker. Yeah, I didn't know what Hong Sisters meant, or how Lee Dae Hae and Lee Dong Wook weren't related. I didn't understand my own growing fascination for drama OSTs or cued crying. I didn't nit-pick at every corner the story took me, or complain about incessant screaming. All I knew, understood, and pick up was a romantic, comedic, and bittersweet love story between a poor girl faking to be a rich guy's cousin to appease an ill grandfather, who made a miraculous recovery, forcing the faker to be more fake, until the secrets fly left and right. See? Nothing too complicated.

(: Goong, princess hours.

First kdrama that I watched diligently every night with my mom. And finally started going on crunchyroll.com to find the episodes I hadn't watched.

That started everything.

My first; Beautiful Days. Ryu Si Won, I got hooked immediately. I am watching non-stop since then and my idol changes every seasons. However,these days the story plots getting better and better. But I still despise switched at birth or bother sister accidentally in love ideas. I'll pressed stop button immediately.
I love reading your review, Dramabeans. U guys are great reviewer! Not that I always agree though. But frankly, the way U guys sees it, could change my opinion entirely also.
So, Happy 5th Birthday!
Keep it up please, I am your Fan.

The first kdrama I watched was Full House but that really didn't bring me over to the dark side. What did bring me over was Boys Over Flowers. I had to know the cast, their names (though I didn't know how to pronounce it), their previous dramas, CFs. I downloaded the songs. I went abroad just to shop for the original OSTs. I had to know what happened next. Went every weekend to a store selling bootlegged DVDs and had to buy what they had even if it wasn't complete yet. Had to watch it raw. Had to know what happened next --- so then I discovered dramabeans for the first time. ;) And late that year, there was You're Beautiful. So my fate was sealed. Doomed. But happy. =)

Definitely coffee prince! I watched it one day when I was bored-- second kdrama after goong and it totally blew my mind... Han kyul love forever!!

My first drama that I fell in love with was SBS's "Yeoja"[여자][1997], a series my mom was watching at the time. I was 7!!!!
I had, and to this day, still have no idea what the actual drama was really about...something about a woman who basically carried an unrequited love for the male lead since her school days..and love triangles, and the mother of the woman at the other leg of the triangle just hated the main female's guts. The typical 90s kdrama. I really only saw the last episode...er, the last VHS (2 epis!) -- which would explain why I tend to decide whether to watch a drama based on the finale even now!

But my REAL addiction started with Phoenix/Firebird/불새, with Lee Seo Jin and the late Lee Eun Joo. She was such a great actress. eh~~~ something about unrequited/long-lost loves always gets me!

As I'm sure many current kdrama fans have experienced as well, I turned my little nose up in the air to them dramas before ever watching a show. Ignorance....yep, been there done that.
What lured me to the dark side was My Girl. In fact, I remember the exact scene that got me. Yoo Rin looking up and down the aisles of the airplane going, "HONEYYY!" Are you my honey? Nope. If you have seen My Girl, you may recall that this scene was near the very beginning of the first episode. I was screwed.
Curse you, Kristin, and your need to bring kdramas (and portable dvd player) to our band trip to JAPAN>.<

for me, it's Goong. I love Yoon Eun Hye in that drama together with Joo Ji Hoon. That's the only drama that I've watched 4 times. They were so cute and lovable together. The love story plot line was also very sweet. It evoke a feeling of fantasy daydreaming and it feels good. Then, Full House, follows. I love the rom-com plot of Full House.

I have to say: Tamra, the Island! I had watched a few dramas here and there before, heard of the BOF craze but something about Tamra brought up the warm fuzzies that are necessary for a lifetime of obsession. So much culture, legend, spaz and bubbliness in one go! Something about the female-dominated awesomeness that I can't get over!

Boys over Flowers =)

Attic Cat....rented it from the Korean Video Store about an hr from my house many yrs ago. Loved it. That was before i had a fast enuf internet connection to watch any video on line. Last yr a friend introduced me to drama fever. new comptuer was fast enuf and I got hooked. Slogged thru Jewel in the Palace...liked it, but it was long. Then Jumong and my crush with Song Il Kuk bloomed and I was hooked. I found DramaBeans about 8 months ago and I'm also hooked on you!!

I think my first kdrama was endless love.They aired it every evening on tthe tv(and subbed into indonesian).Basically I watched whatever kdrama they aired on the tv,like sassy girl chun hyang,memories in bali,lovers in paris,etc.Later they aired goong on tv,but they aired it every sunday afternoon instead of everyday.It pissed me because I felt goong was different with other kdrama i ever watch.remembered I was recovering from surgery,and my friend bought me a dvd set of goong.SO,goong was the first kdrama i watch in korean language with english subs.goong also the one which introduced me to dramabeans.i was so obsessed to goong and want to know more about it.when i searched for the synopsis,Google brought me to dramabeans

Full House! It was showing on a Chinese channel here and it was dubbed but I loved it anyways.

The funny thing is that I use to HATE dramas and I refused to watch it when my grandma watched. Two years later during winter break, I decided to watch Lovers In Paris for lack of anything better to watch. I thought it was okay, and after watching I did some research and found out it was part of series. Then I watched Lovers, and then I was a goner. Now I'm a sixteen year old stuck talking with ahjummas about my kdrama obsession. I would feel sad for myself if they weren't so good. T_T

The first drama I watched and literally got me sucked into kdramas was Full House. Ever since I was little, I've always watched Hong Kong dramas. However, I never watched Korean dramas because I didn't like the idea of watching something not of my own language. It wasn't until this guy friend of mine showed me Full House and then subsequently Boys Over Flowers, that I ended up spending all my afternoons 10th, 11th, and 12th grade years watching korean dramas.

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