METEOR GARDEN. I watched it when I was 10. But my first korean drama was FULL HOUSE. My mother - who disliked Asian dramas - and I watched it when she was pregnant with my youngest sister. She was bedridden and nothing else to do after reading the Twilight saga. So I introduced her to Hana Yori Dango, but she thought Oguri Shun had weird expressions so we moved on to Full House next because I heard good reviews of the show. After that I assimilated to K-drama land, leaving J-drama land except for the occassional gems like Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge.

My first K-drama was when I was in high school. I discovered it channel surfing basic tv and landed on a asian international channel that was broadcasting Country Princess starring Bae Doo Naa with subs. I was hooked! Every time it hit 2:50pm, I would scramble for a blank vhs to record the episode played that day. I still have my collection of vhs! Soon after that, internet developed and amazing websites like dramacrazy and viikii would post new eps of kdrama and I became a permanent fan.

Secret (2001) It was my first drama and I was obsessed. The drama is does have some problems but I loved how Ji-Eun's (played by Ha Ji-Won) hair got all black and spikey as she went to the dark side and then changed again when she started coming back from her evil ways. It is 18 episodes of cheesy goodness that shouldn't be missed.

Lessee. It was the summer of 2007 and I had gotten back from studying abroad in Australia, of all places, where I got slightly hooked on anime. I finished the animated Gokusen, and noticed on wikipedia that there was a live action version. I resolved to try one episode and never tell anyone because God knows, how would that EVER work...

Five and a half years later and I'm still hooked. Gokusen, which is more low budget than usual, led to Hana Yori Dango, which is still probably my favorite. I think it was Japanese HYD that led to this site and Boys Before Flowers, so that one is the gateway to the Korean drama world for me. My first real Korean drama love, though, was probably Coffee Prince.

My first love was My Girl. I had somehow stumbled upon mysoju.com after watching Meteor Garden (Taiwanese version of Hana Yori Dango/Boys Before Flowers) and at the time, My Girl was listed as one of their most popular dramas of all time. I was immediately hooked and watched the show over a single weekend. So, as you can see, it didn't take me long at all to cross over to the dark side :) It's still my second-favorite drama after four+ years (barely beat out by another Hong sisters drama), and I re-watch it every once in a while, most recently in October. It's still magical every time.

Wow. This is very generous. And holy cow! 1,500 comments already?! People do like freebies. Including me :)

My first Drama Love was with Stairway to Heaven. I went weeks of withdrawal and even wrote a different version in my head.

The first Kdrama I fell in love with was the first one I saw,
about 15 months ago: Pasta. Since then I've seen many
more and fallen in love with many of them, but I'll aways
remember my first love with affection. Am currently watching
Brain, Fermentation Family, and (when the subtitles ooze
out) Me Too, Flower.

For me it was Coffee Prince, just like many others here. My sister starting watching k dramas way before me. I always wondered what all the hype was about, why she went non-stop watching episode after episode, squealing and swooning a lot. Until I saw Coffee Prince...then I understood it ALL!!! I was unable to stop myself from being sucked in to KDRAMA-LAND.l have become a permanent resident here, I won't be moving anytime soon.... >_<

My first drama was "Boys Before Flowers", (which I am guessing is probably a first for many people). I was out of school and work because of surgery and re-runs and DVDs just weren't cutting it... I was surfing the net and stumbled on a blog about "Boys Before Flowers", and it was drama love at first watch. But it didn't just birth a love for dramas, but for the Korean culture as well. Since surgery (almost two years ago), I have delved into learning the language and even visited Korea for a month. Now I am planing on moving there and working with an organization for the next two years. So dramas have not only entertained me, but have given me a new direction to travel.

Started watching Japanese dramas - loved PRIDE with Takuya Kimura and Yuko Takeuchi.
Korean dramas? One of the first was ALL ABOUT EVE with Chae Rim and Jang Dong Gun (sooooo suave!).

You're Beautiful is my first drama love. It was actually my second k-drama, after Personal Taste, but it was the first I fell in love with completely. I watched it over the span of about three days. I don't usually get worked up because of movies or TV shows, but this show made me laugh, made me cry, made me wish I was in love. Tae-kyung's grand gesture at the end is still my favorite last episode scene ever. I think I watched it over at least four times. I don't really get attached to dramas, but this is one of the few that I'd actually go back and rewatch.

Goong! This started me with my obsession with KDramas because then I moved onto Full House, Delightful Girl, etc!

Never regretted it!

My first Kdrama love had to be I'm Sorry, I Love You back when I was still in middle school. Damn that was such a long time ago.. In that drama I was introduced to the hotness of So Ji Sub~ and the over dramatic-ness of Korean dramas~

Boys Over Flowers all the way. I look back now and shake my head, but it was the gateway to K-drama crack...and Lee Min Ho love.

Well...
Hana Yori Dango was my first drama -ever. Granted, it was a jdrama, but it was the one that introduced me to this world of fun. My first kdrama was Goong -and I hated it. I hated kdramas for the longest time, actually. I wasnt use to the language, and I found them to be quite draggy -especially when I was use to the 9-to-11-episode-straight-to-the-point-fast-pace that Jdramas gave me. It wasn`t until coffee prince that really won me over. I got use to the language, and the style of it (Jdramas also seem to be overly animated, and I was use to that), and now I cant seem to go back to the land of jdramas. Haha. Anyway. Congrats for making it to 5 years! I love what you guys do with this site, and spreading the awesome and more sane side of the drama fandom. Haha. LOVE YALL XOXO

My Name is Kim Sam Soon.

The first ever Korean drama that I watched which I didn't even know was Korean because I was watching it in dubbed Cantonese. But my goodness was it good and definitely took me to the dark side. Although adjusting to the constant (and what I deemed very unusual back then) scenes in the bathroom was a rather new and interesting. And it was also the first time when both me and my mum found the same drama guy HOT aka Hyun Bin :)

5th anniversary and still growing strong,ya'll doing some good.congrats.
My first kdrama experience was Dae Jang Geum.I remember the first time I watched it I thot it was so long and so slow I ended up switching thr tv off.then I didn't watch for like three episodes.the next time my sis told me she is watching a korean drama and its very nice and I was like no thanks,but then I changed my mind.....I was hooked since then.I fell in love with lee young ae and this drama is what got me interested in knowing mo about korea,not even winter sonata or BOF and they are among my favorites.I am definitely sure jewel in the palace is my all time favorite kdrama and since then I haven't stopped watching korean dramas.

@javabeans and @girlfriday

I see you have nothing organised for your african readers so I will not leave my email,thot I shud just share

The Last Scandal of My Life! Oh, how I loved, loved, loved it! My first encounter with the grownup man-child rich guy star and the suffering heroine turned awesome! It was the first K-Drama I ever watched, and it brought me to this website, and Dramabeans got me addicted to even more K-Dramas! Forever I will <3 The Last Scandal! (^_^)

the first Korean series that I saw was Thank You, Life, which sadly, I did not get to see the end because the cable went out. But that's not the drama that got me into Korean dramas. The one that got me hooked was You're Beautiful. I did enjoy the series but wished there weren't so many odd outfits on the lead actor. the pigrabbit is instill in my mind. when I see rabbits, I'll think of the show.

happy 5-year anniversary. hope great and beautiful things will come for the dramabeans team. happy new years!

My Name is Kim Samsoon will always be my favorite. It was the first K-drama I saw that made me think that Korean dramas could be witty, sexy, funny, poignant, and heartwarming. And no cancer!

Full House!! It was the first kdrama that made me a drama addict. And my made my close friends get into kdramas as well :]

My Drama First love is "You're Beautiful!" I loved all the quirky characters and the whole Idol and girl acting as a guy was exciting! It was my first drama and it was the reason I really got into Korean Dramas in the first place. It also started my obsession with Lee Hong Ki, haha

My name is Kim Sam soon. After all these years, it is still my favorite.

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Before that all I watched was Japanese stuff.

It was Boys Over Flowers who brought me to the dark side. Before that, I was oblivious about what K dramas were. After that, I was never the same. Addicted ever since. :)

my Drama First Love was.....*drum roll*........BOYS OVER FLOWERS!! :)

when I was in high school, I had a friend in last period...and usually she would wait for me and we would walk together....then I started noticing that some days she stopped waiting for me....I later learned that she was running home to watch the latest episode of BOF!! I thought she was CRAZY! ....that was until...I came to the dark side MUHAHAHAHAHA >:)

I watched in again a year later with my MOM!! (I come from a non-asian background, so it is awesome that I got my mom into it)

BEST STORY EVER: My older BROTHER was playing World of Warcraft on the computer in the same room we were watching BOF on the tv...and then he got OFF the computer to watch the FINALE with US!! HAHAHA i always tease him for it~ :P

Since then, I have watched over 30 dramas....just finished watching Iljimae!! 20 episodes in 48 hours!! woohooo for Christmas break!!! :D would definitely recommend! One of my absolute favorites is Shining Inheritance! :)

oh my, there are just so many dramas that i love!
i think the first drama that got me into this drama craze was full house or winter sonata.
then there were just so many awesome dramas after - i cant name them all.

Strangely enough I found k-dramas for the first time on Hulu about a year and a half ago. On the home page they had an ad to watch Personal Preference so I checked it out. That was the beginning of my love for Lee Min Ho and my search for my k-dramas. I watched some more on Hulu but back then the offerings were sparse so I looked for more sites. I eventually found Viki where I began watching more and more. This lead to Playful Kiss - the drama that brought me to the dark side. It was the first drama I ever watched as it aired, staying up late to watch as soon as the subbed version was out. I thought about, talked about it, and through my love found blogs that were dedicated to k-dramas (which is how I eventually found this site!). Since Playful Kiss ended I have watched hundreds of other dramas, both old, new, and currently airing. I have also expanded to watching japanese, taiwanese, and chinese dramas and movies. I read two blogs daily and others periodically. I even got another one of my friends into dramas as well. I still don't know a word of Korean, (or Japanese, or really any other language besides English) but I still enjoy my dramas immensely. lPlayful Kiss was probably not the best written, best acted, or best directed drama I've seen, but it will always have a place in my heart.

Mine is You are Beautiful. It was so wacky and hilarious. And I fell in love with the JGS and PSH pairing. I've never found an OTP that can top that one for me to this day.
Coffee Prince is another drama that cemented my addiction :P

my first dramas were Winter Sonata and Autumn in my Heart, but the one that got me hooked was Glass Slippers.

I think i was about 8 years old when i first saw it and i always wanted to watch it. I fell in love with So Jisub of course :) I honestly don't know why i thought it was so amazing, i just did. I remember the time i ried the most was when the dad got hit by the truck? and So Jisub got stabbed.

Now when i think back about it, i feel like it's the only drama i've seen that the main female character goes with the side male character. Since So Jisub was always wooing her but she didn't like him at the start. She ends up being with him instead of the other guy / the other guy was ehh. HAHA

:)

Happy 5 years !

My first Kdrama was Autumn in my Heart.

But my first Kdrama love was Boys Over Flowers. Though I loved Autumn in my Heart, I was only a kid back then... It was Boys Over Flowers that made me into the Kdrama addict that I am today.

After the 1st generation of Kpop (H.O.T, SES, Fin K.L, Baby VOX, *Shinhwa's youth*) I drifted far far away from the Kpop culture... Of course I watched the occasional kdrama recommendations, (Sad Love Story, Wonderful Life, What Star Are You From.) but it wasn't til 2010, when my cousin recommended my little sister watch Boys Over Flowers and let my sister borrow her dvd set. I just happened to watch because it was the Summer and I had nothing better to do.

It was Boys Over Flowers that led me to Dramabeans. After watching, I just had to google and youtube EVERYTHING Boys Over Flowers. I know that alot of people don't like BOF, and that there are flaws in the drama. But every time I watch it, it has this way of sucking me in and making me fall in love with it all over again. It had everything I wanted in life, loving siblings like Junpyo and Junhee, friends for life who has each
other's backs no matter what like the F4s, Junpyo Lol. Also, I could really relate to the sense of growing up in the drama and first loves....

My first drama was All About Eve and I've been hooked ever since!!!

My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. :3

My mom started watching dramas ages ago, so I've technically been watching dramas almost my whole life (I'm a high school student. Heh.) When my mom stopped watching (sob), I stopped too. Then while being obsessed with K-pop, I picked up MGIAF randomly. Fell in love, researched about it, found Dramabeans....and it pulled me over to the dark side (again!)

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Goong--- love the story and OST. I"m now in the dark side :)

I was sure I could pull back in time, but before I knew what happened I was sucked in by wounded eyes under a paperboy hat, a tearful kiss in a small alley, and a love that is heart wrenching as it is tender. 7 years later I'm still pye-in for.. I'm Sorry I Love You.

It was Secret Garden! My friend forced me to watch it and 15 minutes into it, I was hooked already!

Winter Sonata - beautiful people, touching music, and tragic dramatic twists!

My Name is Kim Sam Soon

Which Star Are You From!
Thinking back, it was really cheesy! But it was my first drama and I've been hooked ever since! KRW is such a cutie! & I'm glad he's back from military service!!

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My first Kdrama love had to be "Autumn in my Heart". The thing was, I DIDN'T even watched it in english sub titles! It was dubbed into my own language! and I was hook with WON BIN and was ROOTING for him the whole way!! Beside that, after watching the drama, I found out that, it wasn't the complete ending! nor was it the full drama! APPARENTLY they cut and choose scene they wanted (that choppiness made sense after finding out that it was cut and paste!) and the ending wasn't a complete ending! (in my version, they were both still alive!)... I sure did felt cheated! So I researched, google and found kdrama sites and where you can watch with ENGLISH SUBTITLES! there was a GOD! and re-watched it in its full version! and *whew* was a teary jerky!!! definitely left a mark in my heart forever! and learning it in its full entirely sure turned me into a kdrama and kpop fan, even at my age of flirty _ _'s! hahaha

Congratulations, Dramabeans!! You are my internet happy place. :-)

The drama that got me was The Star in My Heart (1997). That was the first time one of my mother's many Korean videos ended up resonating with me. Of course, it took yeeeeears for another drama to have the same impact. My Name is Kim Sam Soon is the one that pulled me back in and I've been stuck, happily stuck, ever since!

Congrats and Happy Anniversary! :)

You're Beautiful... not my first drama, but the one which ignited the obsession. I liked the story, characters, music, the angelic voice of Go Minam and how the series ended with the fan concert.

Thank you for this awesome site to share our passion and insight!

It was 2004 = baby = maternity leave for 1 year = free time = Full House (the bait was the house, which I wanted to escape to) = no more time for myself but was able to feed the baby = addiction to K-drama!

Chukaeyeo!

Glass Slipper! Feels so old school now but it was one of my first few K-dramas and then I got smacked with the awesomeness that was Full House.

The first drama i ever watched was Winter Sonata and so i guess that was what crossed me over to the dark side haha Now i can't stand to watch the drama anymore but at the time i was obsessed with it and it made me interested in watching other dramas. :D

My first drama was Coffee Prince- somehow I watched the first episode and then watched the whole thing on YouTube in a week. Thought it was amazing and started watching other dramas right away. The downside of this is that it's ruined me for other dramas forever, although i may like them, nothing will ever measure up T_T
Ah, memories. Happy birthday Dramabeans!

My first drama love would have to be the Japanese version of Boys Over Flowers. I remember reading the manga and crying my eyes out. I loved the way the drama and the manga were hand in hand and the acting was legit.

My first Korean Drama love was Shinning Inheritance. After watching J-drama version of BOF, i looked around and ended up watching Full House and Coffee Prince. I think I enjoyed them because I was new to them and curious. I tried watching them again, and I realized I didn't like them as much as I did the first time I watched them.

Shinning Inheritance was amazing though! That was where I discovered Lee Seung Gi, my first Korean celebrity crush ever, lol! Not only that, I thought the story was amazing and everybody's acting was just as great. I re-watched it, and I still loved it a billion times more. I suggested it to all my friends too.

Boys Over Flowers! Still remember the day I watched it, it was already airing ep 6 and I loved the actors in the drama... first drama EVER in my life to make me cry for such a small kiss or break up... ;)