Started learning Korean! (: And it also made me start eating Korean food, like kimchi ^^

*I'm not a resident of US/Canada.

Watching korean dramas has made me want to eat korean food whenever I can. Whenever there is an opportunity for korean food or soju I always find myself drawn to them because of all the delicious dishes I admire in the dramas. If it wasn't for korean dramas I cant imagine having as many good meals as I do now.

Listening to K-pop! My "Best rated" list is now filled with K-pop, especially OST. it's ridiculous, but oh so good!

Congrats to the winners! For me, I had never liked anything spicy. This was of course until I started to become obsess with kdramas. Now I am obsess with kimchi and even love a few other spicy dishes. Guess it was more psychological than anything. Go figure.

I think I did my first few all nighters in the name of Kdramas :P

Well in the name of K-drama I have started slanging some Korean and going aisshh....when things go wrong.....:D

i haven't done extreme things in the name of k-drama (yet..) but korean dramas have made me WANT to learn more korean (which is saying a lot, considering that i was almost a korean school dropout). it has also made me spend (i wouldn't call it waste because i think the laughters and tears are well worth the investment) a considerable amount of time that i could have spent doing other (more productive things).

I have done everything mentioned. LOL. Well almost.

I do eat kimchi now well cause of K-Drama. LOL.
And of course I want to visit Korea. Instead of you know the normal tourist-y things to do in Korea. I want to visit the Coffee Prince Coffee Shop instead. And the MBC-SBS-KBS building just because. Haha.

I frequent norebangs here in TX when I'm upset and mad cause you know thats the thing to do you know when your upset. And than sing my heart out.

I say Omona instead of Ohemgee. I say aigoo instead of oops. And I recently got into the habit of calling my parents Omma and Appa. And of course they think I am utterly weird lol

I want to drop of college and marry a chaebol. Korean of course. HAHA. Don't we all? Cause you know thats is possible living in America.

Oh how K-Drama's have changed me. LOL. And its only been 3 years.

Watching Korean dramas made me want to try all the delicious food! The one dish that I especially love and can actually make and home is rice cake. I know it's just a street food in Korea but here, it's like the easiest thing I can make! hehehehe Also, I'm taking Korean class in college right now. All thanks to Kdramas!
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Ever since I started watching Korean dramas, I have tried the foods I've seen on the dramas: foods such as jjangmyun (from watching Couple of Fantasy) and also hotteok from some drama I cant remember. Before watching k-dramas, I didnt like kimchi. But now I like kimchee. I've always been envious of the actresses' flawless skins so I've tried their makeup and beauty stuff too. my ultimate wish now is to travel to Korea and see everything in person :D

I've started eating more Asian food, finding recipes and cooking them! No matter the drama there is always foodporn -so I couldn't help but try to make some of what I saw. Also, now I am saving up money to go on a trip to Korea, and many other of the Asian countries.

I've started learning Korean. I started with the alphabet, and I'm pretty good at reading it now. But it's still blind reading, as I only understand 20% of what I read. It's a relatively slower process.

And I've realized I've become a more violent noona. Not violent in the sense that the police need to be involved, but a little smack across the head, or flick on the forehead when my dongsaeng says something ridiculous.

seeing as im obsessed with kdramas, i now love to eat korean food and kimchi. also, im annoying my brother by calling him "oppa" all the time and my new future goal is to learn korean <3 oh and im also in love with kpop although i dont understand it...

I've also started learning Korean! Nothing too serious, but it's amazing how much more I can understand dialogue now that I have some basic vocab and grammar points under my belt :) Shoutout to Talk To Me In Korean---those guys are awesome! :D

Ever since I've been watching Korean dramas I started learning Korean, freak out if I hear someone s

i started to eat almost everything with chopsticks, calling every body in my family Korean titles like appa,omma and so on. sitting in a yoga position when eating, learning korean, eating ramen and drinking every soda like soju with the small glass. say the word "ya" to all my friends and act cute. byuin byuin >_<

First of, I'm not Korean so it was a new experience trying kimchi for the very first time after watching a bunch of people eat kimchi in dramas. Now, it's like my favorite dish. I especially love kimchi stew! Especially with soju! That's the best combination ever! Watching korean dramas have probably changed my life in that it has taken over my life haha I spend more time with dramas than my friends that I've become distant with everyone. The way I talk has also changed as I say Korean phrases like aigoo, aish, and babo.

i started to learn how to speak korean (well more like understand korean). i think the main reason for this was because i went nuts waiting for english subs. my korean friend would always talk about how great an episode was and i would sit at my computer constantly refreshing a page, hoping for those goddamn subs. patience has never been my forte.

K-dramas made me start eating kimchi and also become obsessed with K-pop. Plus, I'm planning a trip to Korea this summer where I fully plan to stock up on cds and dvds at a much better price!

1) I started listening almost exclusively to Korean music.
2) Thanks to Boys Over Flowers, I used SS501 as a research topic for my class.
3) Stayed up all night watching dramas on more than one occasion. ;)
4) Went to YesAsia and bought various DVDs.
There's a lot of other things I want to do...such as try Korean food, especially kimchi; I get so hungry when I watch those shows! I've also got Rosetta Stone in my budget for this year so I can learn Korean.

For the sake of Korean dramas? I've been pretty obsessively looking for a online Korean class that I could earn high school/ college credit for, and because that's amounted to pretty much nothing, I force my Korean friends to teach me Korean ^0^ During English one of my friends and I pass notes to each other, and while I write in English, she writes in Korean.
My dad's boss's wife is also Korean and on my birthday last year, she sent us a big pickle jar filled with kimchi....Despite the fact I'm Indian, I had a really hard time eating it because the amount of red chilli flakes, but I ate it with dinner everyday and ended up getting a super sore throat -_______-

I started blogging recaps of Sungkyunkwan Scandal, which then led to creating my own blogsite recapping random episodes of shows that catch my interest. =O.o=

I started learning Korean and met some Korean friends along the way.

Watching kdramas made me get interested in korean music, mostly kpop and ballads. I'm Korean-American, so the soju and kimchi were already present, but I wasn't really a fan of korean music until the kdrama obsession set in. And now, half my ipod is korean music!

Kimchi is definitely among my newer experiences - and the direct result of my less-than-a-year-old, social-life-sucking Kdrama addiction.

I've also been trying to learn (to speak) Korean - for that trip to Seoul that Doey and I keep swearing we're going to take as soon as we're gainfully employed...Doey is learning to read Korean and I'm just trying to understand it (she's doing much better)

Kdramas have made me more open to trying new experiences and new foods (because it all eventually comes back to food with me), but I've found that their lure rather crimps my plans most days...I've frequently caught myself saying, "Just one more episode, then I'll go XYZ." I finally had to get Doey hooked on them so that I would have someone to talk about them with!

I've purposely tried to put myself in situations where a K-drama hero could come find me so we could fall madly in love.
haha too bad that hasn't worked out.

I found the Korean restaurants in my area and started to frequent them. I started to follow a bunch of blogs about Korea/Korean culture/Korean drama, as well as bookmarked all the Korean drama free viewing websites so that I could access as many of these dramas as possible. I started to also learn Korean.

*I am a resident of the U.S.

P.S. Can links to the winning responses be provided, please? With so many people responding, it's hard to go back to so many pages to find the winners' entries.

Thanks.

Ever since I've been watching Korean dramas I started learning Korean, freak out if I hear someone speaking in Korean, WANTING to go to Korea Town :3, been eating ramen A LOT more, and bothering my parents to go to South Korea for vacation or asking my parents if they would let me move to South Korea.. You can say it's kinda changed me..

In the name of Kdrama, I stopped watching regular (American) Television and only watch drama,
-I've been teaching everyone in my house some Korean phrases
-Trying to sign up for korean language classes as well as writing so I won't have to wait for the subs and I can read hangul (lol, this is just a joke by the way) (:
-I've become more closer to my Korean friends and I've stopped making rude Asian jokes. I respect Korean, Asians in general, a lot more now that I've seen some of their culture and where they're coming from.

Started researching jobs teaching English in Korea... -______-

My excessive watching of kdramas has caused me to try to learn Korean, listen to Koop music, say stuff in Korean randomly and try out Korean food at any restaurant I go to that supplies them
I love to eat with chop sticks whenever they are eating in the show and I keep up with my favorite actors, a thing I had never done before when I watched shows from any other nation

I began learning 한국어! First I taught myself 한글 (which is easy enough to do) and then I took a year of 한국어 in school. I plan to continue self-studying because it's an awesome language. Being able to actually sing 한국 노래들 at a 노래방 like the characters do in dramas is the coolest thing ever. Put another way, the whole experience has been 대박!

Like pretty much everyone else, K-dramas spurred to take lessons in Korean. Also, eating raw fish/seafood with gojujang dip in Korea.

Eating kimchi of course! And I went to the Korean festival in my city this summer and got a wicked sunburn.

Learning Korean has become a favourite pastime, which is a problem because now I don't want to study for uni...

And I constantly recap drama plotlines to my friends who don't watch dramas to their annoyance haha. Sometimes you just gotta watch to understand...

Hmmm... this is a toughie, since I don't think anything "new" has really been added since eating kimchi, spouting out random Korean phrases out of context, listening to Korean music, planning a trip to Korea to drama & 1N2D locations are now just so much a part of daily life for me that they don't seem new anymore.

But if I had to pick, it would be the music and food, nothing spells out love more than actively seeking out all the Korean restaurants and trying them or listening to drama soundtracks on replay non-stop. Or better yet, searching for fan made mv full of drama moments.

Having an interest in the Korean culture and language. It's funny, because I am a Taekwondo athlete (which is a Korean sport) but was never interested in learning the culture and language. That is until I started watching them kdramas. LOL. But it's all good, because I do believe that since I am in the sport I should also learn the culture and language as well.

I started dressing up like a Korean and started coordinating my outfits to look more like the Korean actresses in dramas. Also, I started copying the way they do their make up and hair.
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*I'm not a resident of US/Canada.

thanks for the giveaways!

K-drama, made me use my internet wayyy too much. I'm usally left with no internet, and slowly going broke at my ever expanding bill of internet use ><"
Also it's made me use catch-phrases or hand symbols or anything cool from k-drama. e.g.the pif rabbit pose from your beautiful, got teased from looking too much like a pig.

I've started eating Korean food (wasn't a fan of spicy food before, but Korean food changed that. I love Kimchi jigae!) Watching dramas led me to listening to K-Pop since I enjoyed the OSTs. My best friend and I would randomly speak in Korean (just the simple terms). I even took an Intro to Korean Culture class last semester and I learned Hangul. Also, but random fact, on my phone, my mom is even listed under "umma" hahaha :) And, I do hope that I can travel to South Korea one day.

I owe my current proficiency in Korean to Kdramas. I'm Korean but living in Canada all my life has made me lose most of it. Watching kdramas without subs is pretty much one of the best ways of retaining the language.

I've also become way more immersed in korean culture since I started watching dramas regularly. And here's the big change that came about; I recently got into contact with my relatives in Korea to talk about dramas! I literally haven't spoken to them in years. It's wonderful.

Watching dramas has made me start to pick up korean phrases. They have also made me start saying aish every time i'm frustrated. I also use aigoo a lot amoung various other phrases. My friends all think i'm weird, but i LOVE dramas.

This is a good question.
Actually, watching Korean dramas has changed alot about me. First would be, me being interested with the korean language. Yes, i tried my very best. I downloaded every tutorial i can find, i bought every dictionary and guides i can afford and luckily, it paid off. Now, i can understand basic korean sentences and i can also write korean words. Hooray! Of course there is a disadvantage about it. I speak english and sometimes it has become engrish! haha. who cares, atleast another language is another skill added on my list.

Secondly is the food. The first korean food i ate is Shin Ramyun. To be honest, i didnt like it but after seeing Goo Jun Pyo going gaga over the noodles, I ask my mom to buy me a pack of it and now, it's my favorite! :"> I also started to appreciate korean cuisine.

Lastly, kdramas made me into a fanfic writer. There are always times in dramas that we've watched that we wished a certain scene will happen but it never did. Because of that, it made me write my own stories and the result, readers like it. :)

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**I've started to think that every a**hole that I meet might turn into a romantic man at the end of 16 hours.

**I think now that everyone dies of either cancer or a car accident.

** I've started kissing my boyfriend with my lips closed tightly and my eyes wide open.

** I get drunk 3 times a week just to have people piggy back me.

** I back hug strangers just to make sure they aren't my "fate"

** DAMN YOU KDRAMAS why do I love you soooo much :D

Melanie
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congrats to all the winners!

haha, i love the conversation posts. i am one of the lurkers, but will delurk from now on! i used to think that the japanese language was so cute until i got into k-drama, then there is no contest, i LOVE the korean language now. i actually listened to a tape on learning korean; and wished that i had stay in school to learn chinese cuz the chinese subs come out faster! hahaa

also, everyday, i check on various websites to get my korean fix! i LOVE this website! keep up the great work, girls!

Learning Korean is just the start of my madness. I started using Korean emoticons and expressions on my facebook ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. I also added Korean language in my computer after that. In high school, I always use Korea as my topic for my Speech class. Then, I preferred hanging out with my Korean friends and sunbaes at school because they are really awesome and they teach and inform me EVERYTHING about Korean-related stuff (they even taught me how to do sign of the cross in Korean ^_^). Then, I started eating Korean food (my first Korean food is 갈국수 and kimchi) But my favorite is Korean BBQ! It's the BEST!!!. After food, I started listening to Korean songs (kpop to trot to OSTs). From Korean songs, I also went to 노래방 and sang Korean songs. Then, when I turned 21, soju was my first drink! I loved it so much that I even drive 1 hour to go to asian market where they sell soju ^_^ I also drink Hite, the Korean brand beer endorsed by. Now, I even hunt down and shop for Korean-brand cosmetics endorsed by Korean artists. I also like to google Korean fashion and sometimes, I copy the way they wear their accessories and hair.

I am a US resident and my email address is [email protected]

I've become obsessed with learning Korean (I'm taking classes at school), and I constantly have bits of drama OSTs or even dialogue stuck in my head. I also learned how to make kimchi fried rice (saw it for the first time in my first drama, Coffee Prince, and HAD to have it) and ddukbokki, and will walk a mile in freezing weather to get the best bibimbap in town. Breakfast everyday has also become rice and seaweed instead of cereal... my roommate definitely thinks I weird. (Unfortunately I can't keep kimchi in my dorm fridge because it would make everything else smell lol.) And best of all - next year, if things go right, I'll be able to take a year off from college and spend the whole time studying in Korea :D