I used to think that kdrama were tearjerkers...Autumn in my Heart & Winter Sonata were bandied about as the 'right' way to kdramas and I arrogantly pooh-poohed it... Then My Name is Kim Sam Soon brought me around. Kim Sun-ah hooked me good; & there's nothing NOT to love about freshfaced HyunBin...(Daniel Henney is the pivotal cherry on this mighty fine red velvet cupcake)

It started with a My Girl vcd. Later I discovered youtube videos and online streaming with You're Beautiful. Now I'm hooked forever!

When I began watching drama, I started with Japanese Drama. The very first one I watched was Hana Kimi. But the one that got me addicted to Korean dramas is Boys Over Flowers. It was just too good and I just couldn't stop watching; I loved how I cried when the characters cried and was able to feel their pain... through my laptop. After that, my school life has been intertwined with dramas. It's been almost a year and a half since I've watched Korean dramas and I've seen plenty. Some were worthwhile of my time and lack of sleep while others were just "eh" and have since then been forgotten.

First drama = My Girl

It's actually kinda funny because i didnt really mean to watch My Girl in the first place. My friend was lovestruck with the Korean movie, My Sassy Girl and when i tried to look for it, i ended up with My Girl.

It was boys over flowers, on hulu. Never would have dreamed of watching non-american TV but it popped up as a recommendation one sleepless night. Never been able to convert anyone, so I am very glad that you brought together this little community that helps fuel my obsession.

My first Drama Love would have to be Delightful Girl Chun Hyang...
it wasn't the first K drama I watched, though.. (that was Coffee Prince, which despite being a good drama didn't really make me crazy for the next episode)
I stumbled onto the site looking for recaps of Witch Amusement, and browsing the ratings section, found DGCH to be highly recommended, so thought I'd give it a try..
The first 2 or so mins of the first episode made me go 'erk?' a bit, but from then on in, it was like I was in a feverish trance of some sort, heh...
since then I've become a slave to K-everything, really (and most especially Hong sister dramas :-)

My Name is Kim Sam Soon was the original gateway to Kdrama heaven/hell!

Happy 5-Year anniversary !
Pass the soju around!

Anyways... The first K-Drama that got me addicted was 'My Girl'. I started watching Korean Movies and I don't remember exactly how I ran into Lee Junki's profile on asianmediawiki...but I remember clicking on the current drama and I was hooked. =)

Now instead of doing homework or studying I'm watching Korean Dramas or movies.

My first one dated back to the 90s with "First love" and Bae Yong Joon. How much i miss the old days.
At that time I was 9 and the idea of a price riding white horse was no different from Bae Yong Joon. He still is one of the most handsome actor to date. That smile just melt me >.<

The first drama that I wathced was Delightful Girl Choon Hyang, and I loved it!!
I think my obsession not only for kdramas but for dramas where people had to get married started. Which led to me loving dramas like Full House(seariously I love fake marriage dramas!, If you think there is one I've missed please post a comment <3). But back to Choon Hyang, I think I watched that whole show in a weekend. It has all the classic kdrama qualities, the bickering couple who fall in love without realizing it. The Noona cruch that couldn't be, the obsessive second male lead who thinks he has a chance and the many break ups and a time jump. What's not to love?!?

My number one drama would be All In with Lee Byung Hyun and Song Hye Kyo! Love of my life <3
My first drama, I would probably not remember because I've been watching dramas since I was in kindergarten ㅎㅎ;

Congratulations to Dramabeans on its 5th anniversary and may it have many more years to come, because I honestly don't know what I'd do without it. :)

My first drama love has to be Coffee Prince. I had just started watching Asian dramas and I was in a j-drama slump and had been scarred by my first tw-drama, so I thought I should try k-dramas and why not Coffee Prince, since it was so highly recommended?

It was pretty much love at first sight. How could I resist Gong Yoo and the Voice? It was over before I knew it, but it wasn't enough. There must be more, right? I started watching other k-dramas in order to find that sweet love I had with Coffee Prince. It's been 4 years since then and though I've watched and loved many a drama since then, Coffee Prince will always be the most special one as it started my k-drama obsession.

Definitely My Girl :)

It all started in 2004 when our local tv stations started airing Korean dramas dubbed in our language. I wasn't really into it back then, but after the first episode of My Girl aired sometime in 2006 - I got hooked immediately.

To be honest, I started watching it because Lee Dong Wook's pretty-boy features lured me in. I literally had sleepless nights because of it. Our TV format is different from other parts of the world, so an episode that's good for 50 minutes in Korea is stretched into 2-3 days with gazzillion commercials in 5-7 minute intervals. 8)

After watching that show, I realized that Korean dramas are definitely my thing. I think I might have watched every Korean drama aired in our local tv stations. When we were hooked up to a faster internet connection, I discovered a whole new world of Korean drama.

I am now a complete sucker for Korean drama (&& the whole Korean entertainment to be exact) and I haven't looked back ever since. :)

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autumn sonata (autumn in my heart) who could not love song seung heon and song hye kyo? cried my eyes out...

You're Beautifulll~~~ Haha, my friends had told me about this suuuuper cool korean drama, and there was this suuuuper cute blonde guy named Jeremy, and I remember thinking "Pshh, a Blonde Korean guy called 'Jeremy'? What weird stuff..." But then I watched it and was hooked. Gahhhh the days of swooning over Lee Hongki...sighhh

I think that I am late replying but what the heck...I am going to answer just because... :)

My Name Is Kim Sam Soon...but My Girl as a quick second

I started watching Japanese dramas a couple months before and was having a blast. I hadn't seen anything Korean and didn't think that I could enjoy Korean dramas as much...I know...stupid me...but then I was "forced" into watching MNIKSS's first episode and was hooked...no force needed to watch the rest...but many other dramas followed after that since I felt this need to watch more great kdramas...I feel like I am still catching up! Thanks for this site...it is always a blast to read any of y'alls recaps! :)

I have ALWAYS loved watching dramas, mostly English and TVB dramas though. I did not understand what the hype for Korean dramas was about when Autumn in my Heart was aired with Canto dubs.

It was not until I watched Dae Jang Geum (Canto dubbed) that I understood the hype, but the drama didn't own me yet. It was the Hongs' sisters "My Girl" that totally leashed me in. Since then I've been totally owned by kdramas and the Korean culture. My obsession for kdramas and the Korean culture has only increased each day for the past 4 years. This site is a big contributor of that. :) The only thing I regret was not discovering Korean dramas sooner.

Full house got me started and Goong got me addicted to K-Dramas :)

Hmm, hard question. It's so weird to think that there was life before dramas! Ah, the days when I knew nothing about Korean culture or language and half the time the subtitles felt like they were in a foreign language (I could NOT figure out what oppa meant because it was used in so many different contexts). I actually think I have to say Goong, which is kind of weird. But it was the first drama I watched beginning to end without skipping the episodes I didn't like. And it was the first drama I watched with any traditional dress I think it helped me transition into sageuks in a way.

Hands down, my first drama love was My Name is Kim Sam Soon.
I believe I caught wind of that lovely series way back when...I was a freshman in high school. And when I was still watching on a tv that was like 8"x8" haha! Oh geez, so 8 years ago. But that's when the obsession started.
(Cue in dreamy flashback sequence) I was surfing through the abundance of basic cable channels--hah!--and stopped on channel 18, the Asian station. I only paused to watch it because it had subtitles and it totally caught my attention with the humor and good lookin' cast. Little did I know that I actually struck gold that opened my eyes to the world that is kdramas. And I've been basking in the dark side ever since then...

With that aside, cheers to 5 years!

Oh wow, everyone's first korean drama sounds so long ago! I kinda just got hooked up on korean dramas the year before...
The first korean drama I remember watching is winter sonata when my mum starts seeing it on the tv! It was so sad seeing those two lovers that really love each other overcoming so many things just to be together but just can't be together at the end ='(
Anyway, the kdrama that got me hooked up is SECRET GARDEN! I don't actually know why but the way they talk to each other is just so funny! The storyline is cheesy and realistic in a way! I don't find it overated at all! Love it <3
After finishing SG, I've coming back dramabeans to read recaps for 49Days, City Hunter, Vampire Prosecutor to name a few. Refreshing the page every 5 minutes... I knew that I'm hooked to kdrama!
Well, I'm actually watching What Happened At Bali now! So far, it's awesome ;)

Boys over flowers!!!

Okay so technically Playful Kiss in hulu, i got trap in by the colors, the fantasy, the silliness, and the new and different Asian culture that i am now obsesses with. Plus my first crush develop with Kim Hyun Joong. -^_^-
So while waiting for new episodes, BOF came into my life and i was done and over with!!! >.<
Even when others don't like it or may feel embarrassed to admit it, i love BOF! a girl never ever forgets her first love, even when i have shared deeper more emotional and/or silly, devastating relationships, I'm attached to that innocence that first love gives you with sweeping you off your feet and taking you to the clouds into dramaland!!!

Anyways its been more than a year of sleepless nights, non-stop giggling and laughter with over-dramitic-won't-stop tears and i-think-i'll-die-of-happiness crazy fantasies and dreams.....thank you dramaland for continuing to feed this oh-so-good infatuated girl =))

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My first drama & also my first love is "Princess Hours." I was introduced to this drama when I was on vacation in the Philippines. At first glance, I thought "who are those girly guys???" But as I kept on watching, I was suddenly hooked and interested as to what would happen next. I was going to stay in the Philippines for only two weeks so there was no way for me to finish the drama... So that was when my buying of Kdramas addiction started...
So here I am, still in love with Kdramas, although my love now is "Coffee Prince"... I still remember "Princess Hours" very fondly... plus the lead is still "Yoon Eun Hye" who I am still hoping to produce a new drama that I would fall for again...
Besides the Kdrama dvd buying addiction, (w/c is a very expensive addiction btw) I think the dark side for me is when I just drop everything else & watch until 5am just to see "what will happen next" & end up finishing the whole drama in one sitting...
Anyway, Happy 5 yr anniversary to Dramabeans!!!

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Happy Anniversary Dramabeans!
Borrowing a line from YAB, "Thank you for being born." :)

My first ever drama was Hana Yori Dango, and I found it absurd but was incredibly hooked (It was Nakatsu! He's sooo cute!)

But my REAL addiction began with Full House. A full work day's worth of hours spent on having my insides twisted coz I felt for their draggy episodes of lurrrve unconfessed and i wept watching them look at each other with that absurd longing). I had the OST playing in my head the whole day, and my life was never the same again.
Boys over Flowers was another trip. Sheer absurdity and total addiction! I'd retell the entire episode to my co-worker and i was looking for a recap online to remember some of the details of this episode and THAT was when I found your site, Dramabeans! I had hit a goldmine! Since then, my drama watching experience has been incomplete without reading your recaps. I watched Protect the Boss and I had imaginary conversations in my head with JB and GF the whole time. I could practically see what your screencaps would be like and which scenes would warrant the LMAO's and OMG's and I knew then that rom-coms watching experiences are incomplete without you! *sob*

I'm in Nepal so the prizes wouldn't really be applicable to me. And we get to buy Kdrama DVD's for less than a dollar here, so I'm not a contendor. But I just wanted to share :).

(I don't comment often enough coz I only get to watch after the dvds come out after the series ends.)

Coffee Prince ftw!

I remember when my korean friend introduced me to kdrama and recommend me to watch Coffee Prince. This was it. The gates of kdrama-land were opened. This was the drama that got me screaming, laughing, crying, everything! Watching episodes after episodes, lack of sleep and being sad why it ended so soon, but running to the next drama cause you're a crazy addict.

One thing I love about Korean drama is that it's so.. different, different than other drama's from other countries. Great storylines, great actors (not to mention very handsome at times ;)) and the list goes on! Kdrama also introduced me to variety shows and kpop and this blog! And now, after 3 years, I'm still holding on to it and never letting go :D

And seriously, I cannot imagine what I would be doing right this moment without kdrama.

The first drama that sucked me into this black hole (and I mean that in a good way) was Boys Before Flowers, my first Kdrama. *SIGH* I remember like it was yesterday. I went over to my best friend's house and she was watching Episode 2, where Goo Jun Pyo had dragged Geum Jan Di to his house and gave her a makeover. I watched five minutes of the episode with her and instantly, I was hooked. I went home and watched the first episode with my sister and we've been hooked ever since. I remember watching until 2 in the morning and waking up at 8 after my mom went to work to watch again. I was able to finish that 25-episode drama in just over two days. I watched Hong Kong dramas before that, and I didn't feel the feelings that I felt while watching Boys Before Flowers. Boys Before Flowers was the first time where I felt crazy about a couple, the first time I felt butterflies while watching a drama. The first time I sacrificed SLEEP for a drama. Since it was the first Kdrama I fell in love with, I've watched it about 3 or 4 times, since I was so reluctant to watch another Kdrama because I wanted to keep that first experience in my mind forever. I still love Boys Before Flowers and intend on watching it again sometime over the summer, to relive those moments. One thing's for sure, I've never procrastinated so much before discovering Kdramas, but I do not regret it one bit!

First drama? sadly, BBF... haha

First to get me totally hooked? You're Beautiful. That drama made me discover the meaning of 'drama crack'. At the time I was still a little embarrassed about my weird interest in cheesy korean dramas, so there was the added excitement of watching the episodes in secret, trying not to laugh too loudly, lest my flatmates heard me... needless to say, being able to read the comments here was a godsend.

Thank you dramabeans! For feeding me the delicious crack these last few years. om nom nom and congratulations!!

~~~autumn in my heart! :-)

Happy Anniversary Dramabeans!!! I think I've become a bigger fan of yours because of your <3 for TPM. Anyway, my first kdrama was Autumn of my Heart/Autumn Love/Autumn Tales. I watched a dubbed version of it, but I never got hook (or crossed over to the dark side) until Stairway to Heaven, Full House, and finally My Girl. Those were the days……:)

My first drama love was My Girl. It was so funny. Growing up in America, it was my introduction to Asian dramas. After that, I was hooked on K-dramas. Anyways, Happy Anniversary DRAMABEANS!!!

Happy 5th anniversary!!

Stairway to Heaven got me started. It was around 2006, and my best friend told me to watch the drama. I was hesitant at first because I never watched a Korean drama before, but I got hooked! I cried so much in that drama haha

woo. over 1000 replies already. this will get lost in this but: my first and favorite: my name is kim samsoon.

i started off with japanese dramas but the humor was so goofy and nothing really caught my attention. i ended up watching kim sam soon on a whim and instantly fell in love. it was refreshing and great to see a love story that featured an 'imperfect' woman. given how most television shows (at least here in the states) depict overweight/over 30 women as gross sexless trolls, it was great to see a show that treated a woman like this as a human being deserving of love (even from a rich chaebol!)

from there i went on to watch winter sonata, my girl, what's up fox, coffee prince and many more. haven't looked back ever since!

Wow this brings me back. My first drama was My Girl. I don't even know how many times I have re-watched it. I know how corny the elevator scene is, but it gets me every time. I always use that drama to lure other people to the dark side. Haha.

Delightful girl choon hyang

Happy anniversary =)

A long time ago my family moved from our apartment building into a house that was in a completely different city and during my final year of elementary school, where I had been ever since kindergarten. (Grade 8 was also the year I was gonna get to go to wonderland - Yup I'm Canadian- for free!) Alas this did not happen.

So because of the move and the fact that my parents are procrastinators (that's where I get it from) they didn't set up our TV service for months but we did have internet, because I needed it for school. Being friendless and TV-less an e-mail I got from my aunt (who lives in Korea) was a sort of God-Send. She send me a link to a show called My Girl.

I figured I had nothing better to do so I'd watch it since she seemed to have enjoyed it. That became the first TV(computer?) marathon of my life! My butt did not leave my computer chair at least until episode ten. (It was so funny and sweet and I loved the sub plot with the aunt! OMG I died laughing! I recall French music in the background when she envisioned a love scene!)

What made it all the more difficult was that my best friend was coming over the next day. I kept telling myself that I wouldn't have energy the next day so I should only watch one more ep then convinced myself to watch another and another, etc. The good thing was I finished the series the bad thing was the next day, when my friend came over, I was asleep for most of the visit. Since then Ive become part of this global online love for Kdramas and know more Korean actors than I do American!

That, ladies and gents was when my decent into Kdrama madness began...

Meteor Garden (Taiwan 2001) trigerred my drama love but I can't recall what comes after that, then Full House (Korean 2004) woke up my love for it, then there was Hana Yori Dango (Japan 2005) but Boys over Flower (Korean 2009) really made me fall in love, over and over again. I watched it at least 3 times, all episodes straight like I haven't watched it. So, I think it is my first true love. Jun Pyo oppa~ ^^

Full House! It's my most-watched drama as well:)

Well, the first drama I'd ever heard about was Goong, because I loved the manga and got super excited when the scanlation group announced there was going to be a live-action version. I was like "WHAT?!?!" And then I started looking into Kdramas and getting super excited! I watched Full House and My Girl at the same time, because those were the most recommended from what I could tell, and I instantly fell in love! And of course, after that I realized there was a Jdrama of Hana Yori Dango, my favorite manga series ever, so then I got on those...yeah. (: So it was manga/manwha that turned me over to the dark side, really.

Happy 5th year dramabeans! Wish you the best for the future - otherwise I will pester you in any way possible about the reason that you're not feeding me updates on current/new dramas (Do you smell something?...No?...It's my heart burning XP from the agony I will feel if you don't keep it up!).

"Cinderella's Sister"
This drama made me bawl my eyes out but it only pulled me into the heart clenching korean drama world because I was obsessed with Korean music or to be specific, 2PM ---> Taecyeon >.<

*Disclaimer on the quote!*

Coffee Prince. I fell in love with Han Kyul and Korean dramas. That was in April. Now I watch Korean dramas and hardly any American TV shows. I am truly addicted.

The first drama who bring me to the dark side was "full house" keke this drama was funny, cute and I likes so much the six packs scene ^__^
and the three beers song was so cute, I was totally addicted and now I'm still here looking for more drama keke
one you start, you really are on the dark side but a really good one keke

Happy 5th Birthday Dramabeans!! "THE" drama that brought me over to the dark side was My Name is Kim Sam Soon. This drama had me drawn in from the very first episode. Kim Sam Soon was sort of like an alter ego & I fell in love with Kim Sun Ah's superb acting. From then I've been following all of her dramas and movies. I have watched them all! & Because of this drama, I started getting curious about other korean dramas... from there, it just went all downhill... well uphill really. :D & Let's not get me started on Hyun Bin... the love of my life <3! ;]

happy birthday dramabeans, you guys deserve a lot of good things for this new year :)

Anime=HanaDan=Boys Before Flowers. So I guess Goo Jun Pyo is to blame.