I'm pretty sure it was IRIS. I had just gotten really into TOP (so hot, btw) and wanted to see him act. I googled IRIS and discovered Hulu has a crazy amount of kdramas. The rest is history.

Bad Guy! I know I was disappointed too but it was good for the beginning half.

My first ever kdrama, which was also the drama that got me addicted to kdramas, was Dae Jang Geum. One day, my mom was channel surfing and she found a subtitled drama filled with bright colors, palace intrigue, the role of women in medicine, and amazing acting. After watching one episode, she told me about it and I decided to give it a try. The rest is history...

for me it was MY GIRL,and also (if i don't count Goong) it was my first asian drama,with this (Lee Dong Wook) i started to like asian boys,and started to find asian girls so cute.In the last episodes she (Lee Da Hae) was crying for real,i was crying too :(( but it ended well (will she find him? will she find him?.....and yes finally! )and i trust in Hong Sisters dramas,watched all of them.My girl was a good start for me,and now i check the news in Dramabeans everyday.it must affect me so much :)

My lovely Kim Sam Soon :)

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My first Drama that turned me to the "Dark Side" was Coffee Prince!

Personal Preference, Coffee Prince, Que Sera Sera. I get hooked each time I watch a new drama. ^_^

The first drama I fell in love with was Full House cos it's so funny (I even managed to overlook the dead-kiss-finale and sulked only for a while heh). A few years went by and the one that really turned me into the dark side was Coffee Prince.

CP means so much more to me than just a drama cos it introduced me to your site JB and a love for korean indie music. Yup, can't believe u were just starting this site when CP came out and I've been to this site since then! I feel like I'm turning 5 too! I can't tell u enough how this site changed me.

Whatever it is, I'm glad I was a big Gong Yoo/eun hye couple fan then and it made me found ur site!

Happy Anniversary JB! You made my days brighter since then. <3

Cinderella's Sister.

Looking back, I know it kind of sucked but when I first found it on hulu it was the most addicting show I had ever seen.

MY GIRL :) So I'll always have a special thing for Hong Sister dramas. Basically, it was gold to my sisters and I. We laughed, cried, fell in love with Lee Dong-wook, got the cute ost stuck in our head, anddd laughed even more.
Can you believe it was my grandparents that got me on this kdrama thing? Man, that summer visit pretty much changed the spare hours of my life!
Good times.

Ohh, and Happy New Year javabeans and girlfriday! :)

Princess Hours... Goong... Silly me...

My first love was Jewel in The Palace. The gorgeous costumes, awesome acting and food porn made me fall head over heels for korean drama.

Now that I've finally bought a flat screen tv , I just finished rewatching it and I've fallen in love all over again.

Anyways, I've watched and bought hundreds of dramas since and I'm on an ongoing quest to convert everyone that comes into my circle, so watch out.

Also, Dramabeans has been an integral part of my kdrama enjoyment and I want to wish you a happy 5th birthday and thanks for sharing the fun and goodies. You're awesome as always.

Happy Anniversary! Thank you for maintaining such a wonderful website that is so creative (and filled with such humor!). The first drama that I watched was Winter Sonata, and then it kind of snowballed from there :)

Mine was Feeling. Loved it! Thanks again for all your hard work...Happy 5 years!

autumn story with mr. hand towel !!!

My first real KDrama Love was ... MY NAME IS KIM SAM SOON! :D ... Seriously, I got so hooked! Was able to relate to Sam Soon in so different levels. I would cry, laugh, and would think about the show long after I watched it. I would wake up for work at 6am, then continuously go on about my day doing 'life' stuff, and then arrive home at around 10pm from the commute, and then watch the show until I 4am... Whew! I don't even know how I did that... I remember feeling so grateful finding about the show, finding something I could relate to, providing me with the answers that I needed... I would have my notebook and pen with me everytime I watch it, and I'd write down Samsoon's memorable lines. I would always mull over what Samsoon said, how she tackled her problems, and I always feel emboldened to do the same. Her attitude in love and life is outstanding, and I don't think I would not be as alright as I am today if I have not encountered MNKSS... I never tire of it, and still watch it from time to time. It's really true, what they say, first love never dies. :)

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!Thank you for being a big part of my everyday fun.
Back in 2007 It was the first time I came across Dramas...First japanese and taiwan Dramas but finally korean.
I think everything started with "I'm Sorry, I Love you" and I looooooveeeed it :-D and came addicted ever since.
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What Happened in Bali!- I saw the dubbed one on our local channel station but it was just 30 mins per day so it always left me for more. I was in grade school then and it was like I met my first love..I just can't sleep thinking whats gonna happen next, and I kept daydreaming about it. I was so crazy about the drama to the point that I research everything about the actors and drama.Back then, watching online was not yet "in" but I discovered there was a dvd I can get with subtitles worth 299$..I begged my mom for it and I watched it nonstop for 2 days..and then I re-watched the drama so many times I was able to memorize some lines and the plot and even the theme song. JO IN SUNG was my first love kdrama actor (I like the rest of the cast too).then I started to expand... I researched to everything the cast acted on from movies to drama..until I just cant stop watching them until now..its been 9 years...lol

Hotelier!!

My first drama was full house. I had not idea about dramas at that time, my friends told me that they like rain and that drama was the best. It was so funny and with that love-hate relationship it was difficult to miss an episode. I had to watched it in youtube and finished it like in one week. I was like why he can be so cute and mean at the same time. I just loved it!.... Then, I started to watch a love to kill also staring by Rain.

My First K Drama I think was Star in my Heart. After that I was hooked. hehe

It's definitely You're Beautiful for me. While I've always been a tv & drama watcher since young, YB brought me over to the dark side of drama-watching. For the first time ever, the week never seemed to pass by quickly enough till the next 2 episodes came out. In the meantime, I was just like a drug addict craving for his/her next dose of crack, resorting to desperate means: Spent hours replaying the drama over and over again, swoon about Shinwoo with thousands of others on soompi forums, watching episodes raw and basically attempting to get my hands on anything about the drama & its cast...

Which eventually led me to Dramabeans in my desperation to figure out what the characters were saying since I can't understand Korean. Here was a 2nd home for fellow drama addicts to rave about & update each other about dramas.

That was in 2009. This first love has blossomed into a love for k-dramas & k-pop, and thanks to Hongki & Yonghwa from YB, I'm now a hardcore Primadonna & Boice as well as ''k-drama queen'', spreading the love of all things korean to my friends!

Once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DRAMABEANS! Here's to many more good years of dramas to come =D

My first Drama Love was Sungkyunkwan Scandal. I didn't watch dramas before that. I saw an article about JYJ in yahoo.com and I googled the group's name to know more about them. That led me to SKKS and oh boy, it was all so new to me, as I am from Puerto Rico, everything from the costumes, the language, etc. fascinated me. And obviously the story was wonderful and I fell in love with the characters, specially with Moon Jae Shin and his mane of glory :D I marathoned to watch it and although the ending wasn't the greatest, I will always love this drama because it introduced me to Korean dramas and Korean culture. Oh, and I found this wonderful blog as well! It amazes me how popular Kdramas are in Latin America and now dramas like My Name is Kim Sam Soon, Goong and Boys Before Flowers have been transmitted in local TV. Now my sisters love Korean dramas too and I've met many people who like them. So that's my first Drama Love Story :)

My first drama was 'All In'! It was fresh and completely different from what I was used to watching. I loved the romance and the angst. It then led me to watch other popular k-dramas at the time, such as Lee Byung Hun's 'Beautiful Days', Kwon Sang Woo's 'Stairway to Heaven', and etc.

H Y D...Hana Yori Dango (Boys over flowers) the Japanese version was the trap...then I discovered that Korea did dramas and from then on there was no going back ....this was 2007 O_o

Wow Dramabeans it Our anniversary loool yay for us for being five...

My Drama First Love was definitely Secret Garden. I've been watching K-dramas for a very long time, but the one I truly fell in love with was Secret Garden. The banter, quirks, and character dynamics made it so lovable!!

I've been on this site for more than a year now and it's still the most informative and fun-loving site. Congrats on your fifth anniversary!

I actually became familiar with korean drama after a friend had me watch the movie Daisy (Jeon Ji Hyun and Jung Woo Sung). I remember crying buckets but still being so satisfied with the story and feel of the whole thing.

That same friend and I actively sought out more korean movies until one day we said 'hey why don't we watch this tv series that everyone is raving about!' - and so the first drama we watched was, predictably, Boys Before Flowers. (I recall another friend referring to it as a korean gossip girl haha).

Since then - almost 3 years ago now - I've watched more than a few dramas and found many favourites and a few duds along the way!

Oh wow... The first drama I actually fell in love with was Hana Yori Dango. I found it on accident while I was looking for some anime. I just thought WOW.. this is like watching Anime with real people, and it's hilarious because you can connect better with them. So after I finished that series I started looking for other ones. I actually didn't find Korean Dramas until about 5 months into my addiction. I had seen a couple Japanese... Girl dresses as boy.. dramas, so when I saw the ad for Coffee Prince, I was like.. sure! I don't care if it's in another language. Coffee Prince sold me on Korean drama.. I feel in love with Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun-hye, I also preferred the Korean culture. Now it has been about 5-6 years with my addiction and I am planning to move to South Korea on a teaching internship as soon as I finish getting my degree.

Congrats on hitting 5 years guys! I always look to this website for my recaps and recommendations for my next drama.

oh my goodness.

the absolutely first drama that started this addiction of mine was Full House! I have heard all the rave reviews and wanted to give it a try... and I've been watching dramas ever since.

"A Prince's First Love" was my intro to Kdramas. After a painful university exam, I came home and just wanted to veg on the couch. Flipped through the channels, saw Sung Yu-ri ordering sushi on her way to Japan, and thought, "What is this? A movie? Full of characters that 'look like me' and in original language? I must learn more about this!"

Happy 5th anniversary, Dramabeans!! Here's to you, drama addicts! Being part of the drama community has made drama viewing so much more fun!

my first ever drama love would have to be MY NAME IS KIM SAM SOON!!!! That's also when Hyun Bin became my fantasy love too <3 that drama inspired me to learn korean and i slowly but surely become injected with drama fever <3 I loved Sam Soons personality and kim sun ah became one of my favoriteee korean actresses ever! shes so spunky!

Okay, so if I think back... waaaaaaay back...

It was All About Eve in 2000. That was really the drama that kicked it off. I loved the poppy OST, the petty revenges. I enjoyed hating Kim So Yeon and relishing her downfall. I guess that drama really showed me the world to K-drama and its magnificent emotional rollercoaster.

Also, I found that after K-drama was introduced into my life, my TV/laptop screen can sustain more screaming, crying and screen-banging than I originally thought.

Happy Birthday, Dramabeans! Don't worry, you still look three - must be the facelifts ;)

My first ever watched Korean drama was Boys over Flowers. The day I stumbled watching on BOF's one of the episodes, hooked me completely. I started to search more and more other dramas to watch, but this cheesy, funny and yet, sweet BOF is the one I could start watching again and a reason that took me in the dark side :D mmmmm.....

My first drama love wasn't actually what is expected. It wasn't a smash hit or even a big drama. It didn't have an explosive cast or any shower scenes. I was living in a predominantly Korean neighborhood in LA and I came across KBS on the TV and tuned into a drama called "Sunok". Oh, it was melodramatic, with at-birth switches, revenge, and the oh-so familiar female heroine who sacrifices anything and everything. I LOVED IT. It had everything I wasn't finding with TV those days and since then, I haven't looked back. Sunok will always be my first love, my first drama.

GOONG! and then...... Boys Over Flower~~ kkk

My sister first introduced me to Coffee Prince, however it was quick succession of Goong and Boys over Flowers that truly sucked me into this vortex of kimchi-flavored, wrist-grabbing goodness. Coffee Prince is my first love and my comfort drama (kfr is my comfort food whilst watching cp) ^^

its has to be You're Beautiful. I was just flipping through channels randomly and I got a split second of Jang Guen Suk in a suit. That was all I needed.