My first love (not first drama, by far) was Empress Chun Chu. It was so long but I became hopelessly addicted to the characters and the story (I even came up with my own nicknames for some of my favorite characters, heh). And I appreciated learning some ancient Korean history at the same time. It was the first drama in which I was completely invested.

Definitely Coffee Prince; I loved it from the very first episode. Starting from there, it was a downhill spiral into the smashing world of kdramas. ^^

Happy New year ! And congrats for this 5-years blog !

I think Alone in love proves me korean dramas can be much more than they actually are. This is a wonderful, warming story about actual difficulties in everyday-life, with a more sensible and adult approach. I already said in my french blog that dramas can change life, and this was my first experience. The lesson is : happiness is always a work in progress.

My first ever drama was AUTUMN TALE <3 Yes, it's full of the same old drama plotlines,with all those birth secrets and whatnot, but i absolutely loved it. Well,except for the ending. Why the writer chose to off both main leads still remain a mystery to me but anyway back to my main point! :D It opened my eyes to the kdrama world with its plot (no matter how cliche) and well, ssh helped too ^_^ such pretty eye candy mhmmm

Wow look at all those comments!

OK, i think it would have to be My Lovely Kim Sam Soon (and what a suprise to me when i stumbled upon this site and found people that loved it as much as i did). I think it was my third/fourth korean drama ever after errrr.. sweety spy/full house/hello!miss (more than three years ago but at the same time that isn't very long is it? maybe in the middle of 08). It spawned my first kdrama crush Hyun Bin and i think i marathoned most of the episodes. It has remained one of my favourites - it was amusing, touching and it just took me along for the ride emotionally as i stared at eye candy Hyun Bin (one can not help but do such things).

Hello Dramabeans,

My drama first love was the First Shop of Coffee Prince. It was the first Korean drama I watched and I really enjoyed the story, the character and above all the culture. Actually, South Korea was an almost unknown country for me. Through this drama I wanted to know more about South Korea and its culture, that is in a lot of points different from what I know about the Chinese and the Japanese ones (as I am from Asian descent). Since then, I started watching more and more Korean dramas and I am learning more and more things about South Korean and Asian cultures.

Happy Birthday Dramabeans, Happy New Year everyone and keep on giving news about Kdramas !!

Take care,

FRsophiek

Happy 5th Anniversary, Dramabeans!!! May you go on for another 5 years, and another 5, and another...

Winter Sonata was my very very first and it just sucked me into kdramas for life! It was BYJ and CJW and the songs that they kept playing over and over again, and I had no idea there was this amazing world of dramas out there waiting to be watched. It's super dated and draggy now but back then, it was so so great. I still look back on it with fond memories.

my first love, the one that introduced me to the world that was k-drama, in my young teen years in a all girls school - WINTER SONATA! i watched it religously, i never missed an episode and i remember crying buckets and buckets over it..
now of course, i know better! lol.

Mine was Coffee Prince in 2008 and I have re-watched it too many times to count

The most memorable K-Drama for me was Goong because not only of the story and juicy romance scenes but the ost was really good as well. I love the ending teddy bear scenes! I fell in love with the traditional aspect of the drama because it was just so interesting and different. Maybe this is the reason why I'm so into historical dramas now rather than modern ones. In a way, Goong guided my way back to the past lol xD

My first Korean drama was Autumn in my Heart though I wasn't addicted to it until I watched Hyun Bin and Kim Sun Ah in My Name is Kim Sam Soon..HEHE

I watched it on telly and it was dubbed in Mandarin..But I couldn't wait for the next episode so I bought the DVD set and marathon the show in three days!

This is my first drama love which I can re-watch and never get bored.

Ever since then, I fell hook, line and sinker into the Hallyu wave and DRAMABEANS :D

Full House! Though some say their antics are silly, I can't help but watch how Young Jae and Ji Eun slowly fall in love with each other. :)

my first drama was Boys over Flowers
it was one of those 'good whilst your in it' dramas
and man was it good :L
LEE MIN HO <33
the hotness just made me swoon ♥

You're Beautiful.

I was trying to figure out what to do with my life, since America had somehow decided that English degrees were not useful to society, and forgot to tell me before I graduated. I had been considering coming to Korea to teach English. After mentioning it to a friend I hadn't seen in a while, she immediately said, "Oh! You should watch some Korean dramas! Maybe it will help you with the language." She then sent me a link tot he first episode of You're Beautiful on Hulu. I clicked it, not knowing what I was getting into, and I saw... a nun... and oddly dressed pretty boys... and levels of wackiness the likes of which I had never encountered before... and the rest is history. :-D

Many of my friends were addicted to kdramas and had been trying to entice me to join the crowd for years. Since I majored in French, my friends finally managed to coax me into trying "Lovers in Paris." The poor subtitles drove me nuts, but I loved the drama (apart from the ending). I've been watching and subbing ever since.

The first Korean drama I saw was Take Care of the Young Lady. After that I saw YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, that´s when I also fell in love with Korean dramas. I was tired of the Spanish ones that are in the tv - they have the same plot all the time. And the America ones aren't that interesting. From the dramas I also fell in love with the Korean culture, it´s so different from the European one, where I live. Now I am always looking new dramas to watch, after finishing one.

Winter Sonata! My mum was hooked onto this and i watched with her! I remember crying buckets and feeling lost when it ended.

Happy birthday!

Full House during my last year of high school in 2005. Second was Samsoon...drama perfection which pretty much cemented my love for all things kdrama!

Hi! I simply love your website! I also absolutely love you and girlfriday! Your analogies make my life, jussayin'<3 Oh! And Happy 5th Anniversary :D

Okay, so my first-drama-love was Hi My Sweetheartwhich was this adorable Taiwanese drama about a dork who falls in love with the "tough bad girl" haha(:

But my first kdrama love is BOYS OVER FLOWERS!<3 Honey you can serve me an order of Flower Boys anyday! That's how I met my first k-love Lee Min Ho UHHHH it was love at first insult!<333

Well anyways I love Dramabeans and may it live forever :D

My first love is Stairway to Heaven, it was the first K-drama that had me hooked. I got engrossed with the characters and the story itself. I cried bucket of tears specially when Han Jung suh (Choi Ji woo) was already going blind and she pretended she was not in front of Cha Song joo (Kwon Sang woo), I was really crying so hard. Then the sacrifice of Han Chul Soo/ Han Tae-Hwa (Shin Hyun Joon) of giving up his life so he can give Han Jung suh his eyes, I almost wished that he should have gotten the girl. I am a happy-ending kind of woman, but this K-drama was something I will remember for the rest of my life and made me a k-drama addict.

My first K-drama love? It's none other than All About Eve. The drama that got me spazzing over Jang Dong Gun and Chaerim. LoL, good times. That was more than 10 years ago, I saw AAE on vcd back in 2001, me thinks.

OMGOMGOMG!

My drama first love will DEFINITELY be My Name Is Kim Sam-Soon.. while i was so concentrated on American Tv Series' i got curious and decided to watch a Korean Drama named my Name Is Kim Sam-Soon. I worried that i might waste time watching this but after the first episode i started laughing and i got infatuated with the drama's plot and characters... that's the time i found a new hobby and started to watch more and more that i spend most of my time watching

Well that's my life story :D

I'm not 100% sure which drama I watched first and fell in love with but I know definitely there was a wonderful drama that I could not stop talking about after watching. This drama is Autumn in My Heart. Even though I was only about 7 or 8, I almost fully understood the whole drama and still remember it to this day. After watching this drama with my whole family, we could not stop watching Korean dramas. Two other 'first loves' of mine are probably Green Rose and Sassy Girl Choonhyang! These dramas have definitely brought me over to the dark side and even though I have watched dramas from other countries like Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, I will always be watching dramas in Korean.

And congratulations on turning 5, Dramabeans! ♥

My first drama was Save The Last Dance for me. It was the first drama that started my Korean drama obsession and it was also the drama that f***ed my summer over, literally. I ended up failing my high school finals(just one paper actually lol) and had to resit during the summer. But now I've learnt my lesson and vow to never start a drama till after exams! ;)

endless love which brought me to know about K-dramas. then, stairway to heaven was the one which made me crazy about K-dramas. after that, I knew about other K-dramas like Boys before flowers, 49 days, flower boy ramyun shop, and other addicting dramas

Boys Over Flowers!!!
Lee Min Ho pulled me over with his brilliance, and the drama was just really fun and addicting:) I couldn't stop watching, even though I recall that I had a test the next day lol. Seriously, I've only started watching kdramas last November/December, and im in 10th grade. My friends started since 7th grade, but at that time I was trying to veer away from getting addicted because once I love something, it's really hard to let go...which is why I'm still here today spending 3/4 of my sleep invested on dramas haha. Although I guess I'm not completely out of the loop since I've seen taiwanese dramas since I was 5, but now, it's pretty much kdramas all the way, and I'm ready to fly into acting. Maybe I'll be able to go to s. Korea one day and be able to speak and act with Lee Min Ho?

Actually a friend made me watch waterboys, and I loved it. Then she reccomended devil beside you and omg that one is awesome totally got addicted xD

My first was boys before flowers (like most people it seems). I was about 16 and had little taste in what was good and bad - watching any and all Jdramas like they were crack - but while watching BBF I found javabeans and have truly become hooked on Kdramas and this site since.

It has to be Delightful girl Choon Hyang! Jae Hee <3 Happy anniversary btw!

My first k-drama was boys over flowers. And probably unlike a lot of people I really liked Woo Bin, just because his character seemed more flawed than the others. But I didn't really get to see enough of his actual character. Ah well.

Comparativel newbie here - Jolly Widows, episode 67 and IRIS, seeing Kim Tae Hee shoot Lee Byung Hun and thinking WTF?! And HOW DOES HE KNOW HER?

Saw them while on holiday and when I returned to England I felt that desperate longing, that craving that needed to be satisfied... the feeling that I am now oh SO familiar with...

And I thought "surely I could watch online? And maybe there's a place people talk about this... addiction?

Which led me here to the home of JB and GF. Congratulations to you both for creating and then growing something that has proven to be so uniquely amazing, you have prompted others to start their own version of this work and that is probably the greatest compliment of all.

Can't believe the number of comments, must be a record?!

As for the dark side, I think the Stone Roses said it best:

"I don't need to sell my soul, He's already in me" !!!

oh. mine definitely started off with Goong/Princess Hours. That was when dramas were still 24 episodes long instead of 16! :D haha

Simple Answer: 1st Shop Coffee Prince.

The more complicated and complete answer:
I had a three phase soul sucker when it comes to dramas.

A.)Youtube: The Beginning
Phase one was commenced in 2006 (while I was in college, the WORST POSSIBLE TIME to become dramacrazy) when I discovered Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (yes, I know, a Japanese show the Korean soul sucking comes later amazingness comes later). It was love at first site with this show for a girl who grew up in the 90s (and I brought my friends all down low with me for this.). This show was my introduction "hurts so good" show but I wasn't crazy when it came to dramas.

B.) Mysoju:The Descent
Then I stumbled upon Mysoju.com (precursor to watched a few other Asian dramas next (no Korean ones) including MARS, Hana Yori Dango, First Kiss, etc. Slowly but surely I was in a downward spiral. However, the friends I have brought with me were worse (skipping days upon days of classes to watch shows).

C.) Dramafever: The Crash and Burn of My Social Life
Then one day in 2009 (while still in college), my friend Mollz, shows me this subtitle-less youtube video from a Korean Drama. It was from Episode 10 of 1st Shop Coffee Prince (and anyone who has seen the show should know the clip). My mind exploded. What was this show, I had to find and watch it?! So I went scouring the internet for this show and like love at first site, I found Dramafever (in it's early stages). I missed a week of classes watching everything I could on there, growling every time my friends wanted to socialize because I was watching a new drama.

And I have never looked back. I have dragged numerous people down the drama road with me (not all of whom have thanked me due to their addiction) and it is all thanks to Coffee Prince.

Coffee Prince!
I grew up watching Hong Kong/Taiwanese dramas and I discovered Coffee Prince after running out of things to watch, and I never really looked back haha.
Well I fell in love with Yoon Eunhye, so I kind of marathoned Coffee Prince and Goong at the same time and in a ridiculously short period.

Hana Yori Dangi, the j-dorama. If ever there was a dorama that brought me over to the Asian drama loving community. It was hanadan. I was Jun-baited in the purest form. Inoue Mao and Oguri Shun did not make things any more easier. I was in some sense following the manga and just finished the anime in college, when I realized there was a jdorama for it. Next thing you know I was hunting down the best of the best. Been hooked to dramas ever since. X)

My first drama was Boys Before Flowers. After re-watching it, I don't know how that won me over - it's nothing compared to the other dramas I've watched! But the first time I saw it I was home sick from university and PMS as well.. Watched the full show in one day, and after the final episode I had to go take a shower so that my parents wouldn't question my swollen eyes and dead-like stare when they got home from work. :p

Happy 5th anniversary to Dramabeans, and I can't even express my thanks in words alone to Girlfriday and especially Javabeans for providing us K-drama addicts with so many drama goodies. Despite all the time I've spent on dramas and this site, I still thank my lucky stars for the day I came across Dramabeans!

My first-ever Korean drama was Autumn Tale, but the one that hooked me was Hong Gil Dong. And of course, it made me fall hopelessly in love with Kang Ji Hwan. Sorry Javabeans, you'll have to share him! :)

BOYS OVER FLOWERS did it for me... the one that started this madness over hallyu... and just about anything Korean. My love for it made me flew all the way to Seoul :)

Happy 5th anniv! More wonderful years to come!

Coffee Prince. Marathoned it during debate camp.