Awesome! Will be looking forward to reading/hearing about you guys!:)

yeah, me too! i want to hear the interview. Please post it in the site =). Please advise also when it will air, maybe we would be able to catch it. I have BBC radio in my cable =)

아싸! (Assa!)

Eeeep!! The bbc ?? Why can't they interview people in England ? We love kdramas too =_=.

Hallyu wave FTW lol. And aww you guys keep getting more popular! BBC is no easy feat... It would be fun hearing from everyone so I hope the interview link is posted here. Good luck guys! :)

OT: From what drama/movie is that image from?

wow! darn! i'm not from la! so sad!

We nigerians r lovers of kdramas too

Epic win for Hallyu & the Beanies :D Javabeans & Girlfriday have been instrumental in growing my love for K-dramas, so congrats on the interview!! Can't wait to hear all the great origin stories from our So Cal Beanies too!! Big Hallyu Wave, Fighting!!!

CA, REPRESENT!!

What about Canada?! We Canadians love kdramas too!

i don't think i'm ready to oust myself to everyone i know yet!!!

am i the only one that doesn't get the hoopla. is it not common knowledge ppl will watch good shows no matter where they come from?

I'd go if my English was good lol.

If you can convince them that other regions of the United States (and beyond! *GAAASSPP!*) enjoy good entertainment, I will be happy to help!

Hailing from the Deep South, United States…

I wish you the BEST of interviews with the BBC. I have long been a fan of Dramabeans.com and the BBC!

The reporter should speak to prominent Princeton University economics professor Uwe E. Reinhardt. Under the publications page on his princeton.edu web site is a document named Introductory Korean Drama in which he writes he has been watching Korean Dramas daily for over six years.

A few years ago, dramabeans had a contest which awarded a prize for the account of the most incredible lenghts drama fans/addicts had gone through because of their k-drama addiction. Many stories were hilarious and/or over the top. Wouldn't it be nice to share some of these stories with the world?

Strange the BBC are doing a story on kdrama in the US when in their home country here in the UK, kdrama is completely unknown.

I just forwarded this post to my teenage Bulgarian immigrant student (in Los Angeles) who learned Korean in the last year or so from watching Korean drama.

I plodded through much of Heirs just so he had someone he could squee with.

I'm always plugged into npr when driving, and I'm sure I'll be hearing your segment when it airs. I can't wait!

Awww, I'm not going to be in L.A. 'til the Fall! I hope someone does this, though!

Awww! Looking forward to this lovely podcast! Jung Man-shik and Lee Min-jung both look great in that pic!

I'm guessing there's more than enough LA Beanies for this, but would San Diego Beanies count too?

I've got a convoluted story so I submitted it. At least I find it entertaining. The longer version is far more entertaining than the condensed. Or I can make it so.

Plus I'm a K-culture nerd apparently. Even the Korean people I run across occasionally are really impressed at what I know. (My language skills are still touch and go though. Sometimes I'm on the mark and sometimes I slip into satoori too much (Without realizing it and then the seoulites get on my case about my pronunciation being too lazy or wrong. *sniff*) or sometimes I don't feel like it at all.)

A Korean friend of mine (born and raised, where I was born and only raised there a few years before being exported to American parents) occasionally says I'm more Korean than she is. I know more Korean lit than apparently she does, know more Korean history and care more about Korean food in the old Korean ways than she does. Also Korean customs... ^^ But she's more American than I am. Yeah... it can end up like that too.

Most of my friends are Koreans, some were born and raised in Korea and some were born here in the US. They are always impressed that I know so much about their history, culture, and the K-ent industry.
When we get together they know that they don't need to tell me what to do, how to eat or how to act when we go to their parents house. I know to take my shoes off at the door, bow and greet their parents in Korean lol.

I love sageuks so when we watch one together I'm the one telling them who is who, what's real and what's not, and all about the actors, director, writer, production team and other related dramas.

QSD was not my best sageuk but it was the most fun to watch together with friends because Kim Young Hyun kept introducing many real life historical figures with their own story in history so there was so much to talk about.

Congratulations!!! Let us know when this interview happens!

Yes! I listen to the world most days when I'm at work (if I can hear the radio over the squawking of 16 one-year-olds). Be sure to update us when the interview is going to air. I'll make the kids play "The Quiet Game" and have a listen.

When is the interview? I might be in the area and I would love to take part in this experience!