XD This is such an awesome idea!

Auugh *blushes* I hate to admit it, but I have to say Boys Over Flowers. It was also my very first K-drama, my curiosity/devotion to the drama/manga pulling me over from my J-drama cocoon (this is also what led to me discovering Dramabeans~ a random internet search on the show before watching led me to your Ep. 1 recap and you were bookmarked forever). I can also say, that without the additional info, snark, and sanity brought via your recaps I probably would have never bothered with following additional K-dramas. Yes, BOF was addictive crack, but it was incredibly stupid crack with a topping of a delicious Lee Min-ho. It took Coffee Prince to make me fall head-over-heels in love with K-dramas for good.

Congratulations on your 5th anniversary.

My first love K-drama is "Full House". One day I discovered a new cable Asian TV station. I saw the drama "Full House" from episode 4 with English subtitles. I didn't know any of the actors' names at first but I used the internet to help me. To say that I was gobsmacked by Rain is an understatement. Eventually, through the tv station's website, I discovered that Rain was a singer. The station had 3 of his music videos and I was lost to Rain completely. I was lost to K-dramas completely. I was lost to K-Pop completely. I discovered South Korea.

The one and only. Goong. That drama had me swooning over the great almighty Joo Ji Hoon and then sobbing over Kim Jung Hoon with his sorrowful puppy eyes. It was one heck of a drama, and I always always am up for my one-hundred-and-fifty-seventh time of watching it! :D

Coffee Prince, of course!!!

Mine was 'Palace.' I loved the sets and costumes, and I loved the unique idea of the plot--a modern-day Korean monarchy! I could hardly sleep waiting for the next episode... :) Since then, I've never looked back and I happily continue to feed my drama addiction! :)

Shining Inheritance is the one that brought me to this k-drama addiction. Before I'm contented watching (tagalized or Filipino language) k-drama airing in TV here in PH but when shining inheritance knock at my door I'm truly mesmerized with its beauty inside and out. I started to surf the WWW to find the episodes and OST. BTW along with my k-drama addiction is my mom that always asking the new episodes of k-drama we are watching and we are doing this for about 3 years (OMG, 3 years of k-drama marathon and still going strong). My 500 GB hard disk is full of k-dramas, OST and pix. Now I'm thinking to upgrade it to 1TB, hahahaha that alot of drama to download. :)

Happy Birthday Dramabeans! Hope this site will live happily ever after... :)

Boys Before Flowers brought me over to the dark side at the end of ninth grade! I was at a study party the night before a huge biology test and two of my friends told me to watch the first episode. I had never been exposed to anything Korean before and I was totally hating on Gu Jun Pyo the first episode. xD Before I knew it, it was 4 AM and I hadn't done any studying. I finished the drama in 3 days and I've been in the dark side for the past four years. <3

my first K-drama crush is Winter Sonata. Love the storyline, cast, the chemistry, and scenery..it makes me a k-drama fans for the next ten years :)

This is kinda hard to remember, but I think it might have been Goong. I got really obsessed with kdramas back in 2005, but I remember growing up and watching kdramas here and there with my dad. I didn't have too much interest in them till Goong though. Then I saw My Girl and My Delightful Girl Choonhyang and those were totally my gateway drugs -ahem- I mean dramas... gateway dramas.

Uhh... my first drama would have to be stairway to heaven, long and melo but it gave me a taste of k drama and from then on...i was hooked.:))

I stumbled upon My Name Is Kim Sam Soon on local TV many years ago and the potty humor and cute leads had me hooked. I was taping episodes on my VCR (yep, this was a long time ago) when I knew I was going to miss an episode. I found Dramabeans when Coffee Prince started airing. Thank you for this site and the smart writing. Congrats!

Definitely My Girl. And I started watching it during the worst time ever: Finals week.
I just needed a break, and that break turned into a lifelong love!

My first love? God, this is hard. I've been watching kdramas since I was little. My mother would rent them from the korean market and I'll watch with her and my grandmother. The kdrama I remember the most clearly is Wedding Dress (1997). It was the first time seeing Kim Min Jong and I fell in love with him. I also started to crush on Shin Hyun Joon. I have such a big heart for a little kid. lol.

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My Drama First Love was probably Goong, although it's hard to pinpoint when I became sucked into this world. I remember watching Dae Jang Geum with my family since my mom had it constantly playing on the television, but Goong was one of the first Korean dramas I watched on my own. It eventually led me to Coffee Prince, which I'll always love :)

can i choose two dramas: goong and bof. but i'll go for bof if i am not allowed to choose 2 dramas. i really, really love lmh.

i feet like it was... dang through all those drama i feel it was shinning inheritance AKA brilliant legacy it was the first that made me feel like oh another drama with a singer but had the intense stresses and depressing moments and taught me that those little ups (yes even love, even tho it's scary) and make your day in a hellish life. also kudos to the evil step mom for she was some one evil mother and her messed up daughter

Autum fairy tale! the glorious makjang mellow that make me, my sister and my mother tearing at 3 AM to finish mr.Handtowel and Song Hye Kyo romance.
It was my hook.

But my first love is Dalja's Spring.. it helped me cope through some personal difficulties with smiles.. ;)

Boys Over Flowers :)
I hadn't cried that much since my mom died.

my first drama was Model staring Jang Dong Gun in 1997 but the ones that glued me to Kdrama were the The last game (1994- also with Jang Dong Gun) and Wish upon a star 1997 with Choil Jin Sil and An Jae Wook. Another unforgetable one was Medical brothers.
Indeed, this question make me want to watch those dramas once again.

My first drama that let me pass to the dark side was "Full House". Actually my favorite and the one that make me into Kdrama was "Alone in Love". What a masterpiece!!! But Full House was the first one that tied me in front my laptop one Sunday in 2009. For 18 hours straight I watched all series! without a break! It was my first "Marathon" day...but not the last for sure!!!!

What really got me obessive to Korean dramas was 'Stairway to Heaven'. Kwon Sang Woo was a great actor with a sexy face. If it weren't for Stairway to Heaven, I wouldn't even be this obsessive with Korean movies! ;)

Stairway to heaven all because of kwon sang woo.

Little old school but Sandglass or Moraeshigae got me hooked!

Well, first drama I ever watched or saw an episode of was BBF. I thought it was so crazy and cliche....but then... I started watching other Kdrama and fell in LOOOOVE. Haha, Personal Taste was the first drama I really loved and I bought the DVD because I loved it so much. Looking back it isn't such a great drama but I still have a big ol soft spot for it. :D

Congratulations Dramabeans!!!!
wish you all the best for the year ahead...

My drama first love was Autumn in My Heart/ Autumn Tale with Song he gyo, Song seung heun and Won bin.
A tear jerker story that made me and my mom (who rarely watched TV) always tuned up in front of TV and took over the TV remote control from my dad and my brother. I never forget the story and I even watched it on the re-run broadcast.

My very first drama was "all about eve". I was freshly graduate and went to Paris to work for my first job. I was on internet looking around for some chinese drama to download for my mom. I have never heard about Korean dramas before and my mom neither. We were at this period were everything could be download via bittorent. with my slowy internet connection and my primary understanding of bittoring, i was surfing on every forums and I found this forum created by Shirley (I can t simply thank her cos she was the first one who got me hook to forums and korean dramas. she taught me everything without knowing and her forum linked me to others and like a snow ball I didn t notice that I enter in the Kdrama world. huh, that freaking me out if I think about it.Sooo twilight zone!). Shirley uploaded a drama called all about eve with this perfect guy with a perfect look with so much kindness and romantism "The Man". my first crush. Jang Dong Gun! who could resist to this man! not the heroin anyway. she was perfect too and there was this perfect bad girl. everything was perfect! so each week I was waiting to watch one episode of this perfect drama (imagine one episode took me one week to download. a hell!)
and now with the new technology and the xtra high speed, I can watch 10 episodes per day without sleeping. wouah i have just realized that i passed ten years watching dramas. time flies! me going to cry! welcome to 2012!

Full House. After watching the whole drama I watched it twice back to back. I was in my late thirties then and I thought I was going mad to be so fallen over a drama.

It would Winter Sonata!!!
I fell in love with choi ji woo and bae yong jun then and have been their fans ever since....seriously they can do no wrong in my book...

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My Name is Kim Sam Soon it was the most hilarious drama i've watched before. That got my attention i started watching more KDramas :D

My Lovely Sam-Soon/MNIKSS! Followed swiftly by Coffee Prince. I lost a few months of my life to drama-watching after that (worth it!).

Emperor of the Sea on the now defunct AZN Channel!

My first taste of BROMANCE. Yummm!
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Happy 5th Anniversary!

Lovers in Paris is my drama first love. I watched it in 2007. Three years after it first aired and it was also the year that I stumbled to this wonderful website.

Here's a toast to many more years to come! *clink glasses*

I'm probably the only person who feels this way, but it was Alone in Love. It was heart-wrenching and sad and I was blown away by it. It was understated, and I think to this day it is still in my top 3.

congratulations on your 5th anniversary!

my first k-drama was Autumn in My Heart...gosh, i'm feeling old.. ^.^

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Have always had this weird thing for gender benders. I was watching the Japanese version to learn some Japanese for my Japanese class and my friends recommended (strongly!) the Korean version. When I couldn't wait for the Japanese episodes to finally come out, I gave in and peeked ahead in the Korean version. In fact, I didn't even watch them. I found your site and fell in love. Thank you so much! :)

The first drama I watched was Nodame Cantabile out of boredom. Coffee Prince was second, and I think that's what got me hooked. I can't complain about my introduction because... it's Coffee Prince. Enough said.

And happy anniversary!

Happy Big 5 Dramabeans!!!

Aww, like so many my first drama love was Coffee Prince (such a ladykiller). It was also the one that led me to this wonderful site. I'm ashamed to say this, but I used to be one of those people who thought all kdramas were melodramas filled with fauxcest, birth secrets, terminal illnesses, and lots of angry screaming without having actually watched a full drama.... and I'm so glad to be proven wrong.

Our love story started with me being somewhat melodramatic in real life and in need of a some light entertainment to lift me from my stupor. TV is the answer to the universe's question. Prior to converting to kdramas, I had been raised on TVB dramas and was getting increasingly disappointed with their productions. So I stumbled upon mysoju.com and was just browsing through their blurbs for dramas and the story for Coffee Prince had caught my eye. I've always been a sucker for gender benders, so I gave it a shot, and the rest as they say was history.

All About Eve :)))
I fell totally with Jang Dong Gun and Chae Rim <33 They're still my favourite couple of all times^^

Happy New Year!!

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The first ever K-Drama I watched was Full House years ago. The same drama pulled me family, and almost every other friends I have into K-Drama-Love (Gotta love Song Hye-Gyo :D). Surprising really, since the constant bickering did tire us ALL. Then, Sassy Girl Chun Hyang came along, and we've been following K-Dramas ever since.

tbh.. I can't remember which exact K-Drama brought me to Dramabeans. It was around my 2nd year in university tho (2008) xD

ps: Happi Birthday Dramabeans!

pps: Happi New Year 2012 too! :D

It was jdrama that first got me into drama, the first one I ever watched was Densha Otoko, which I liked, but it was the second I watched, around 5 years ago, Nodame Cantabile that really got me addicted.

I watched the first episode of Full House two years and many jdramas after, and funny enough, I liked it so little I decided kdrama was not for me.

However, after watching the japanese adaptation, I decided to watch The Devil. I loved it! Every minute, every bit! I thought maybe I had been wrong thinking kdrama wasn't for me. And that was the real beginning! Many kdramas after, and having been learning Korean for two months, I'm so grateful The Devil came to the rescue ^^

Like a lot of others, my first k-drama was Full House. However, I have to say my first drama love was Goong and a Yoon Eun Hye fan ever since.

my first love was boys over flowers! i stumbled over playful kiss one day on hulu back in 2010. i just fell in love with kim hyun joong so much! so i found out about boys over dramas! i watched the entire series in just 4 days! in the process, it completely screwed me over in school because i put off my homework so much! ever since then, i've been a k-drama-holic! :D

My drama first love was My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, or, as I knew it then, My Lovely Samsoon. It was completely random. I was bored at home, flipping lazily through the now-deceased AZN channel. Suddenly, some crazy lady was screaming about her hair being caught on some hot guy's jacket button. I watched with interest for five minutes... and ended up for the next few weeks watching it at midnight every night. Completely, and utterly, unhealthy, but yup, that was my foray.

Then I began searching up NGs on youtube, watching recommended k-romcoms like My Girl, Goong... Before I knew it, I was hooked on kdramas, and on dramabeans (which I forget how I found, though). Now that I looked back, I was pretty damn lucky my first love was such an outstanding drama, else I would've forsworn kdramas forever.

my first love would always be full house.. it was so fully and dreamy like you would want it to happen in real life and those times their clothes are really fashionable and you would also like to try if song hye gyo's hairstyles would suit you.. :)