congratulations!!!

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Woaaah I didn't know that it's the 11th year this site has been running! I started reading recaps ever since I started watching kdramas in 2011/2012! Thank you all so much for providing recaps that are entertaining for us! Of course, I won't be able to attend the party since I'm from Singapore. But for those who are going, enjoy!!^^

Happy 10th Anniversary!!

When I just started dipping my toe into K-Drama a little over 10 years ago I happened to stumble upon this site in it's infancy.

Over those years you have helped me navigate the K-Drama world in a way I don't think I would have ever been able to find and access on my own. You have created a warm inviting community of like minded drama fans who come to share and connect.

And let's not leave out the jewel of Dramabeans:
The Recaps!

I have to be honest. There are many times, that even though I have access to the full drama, I will only ever just read your recaps. There are just some dramas I am just not quite sure I want to go down a 16 to 20 episode rabbit hole with. So your recaps let me feel as though I have 'watched' the show. And there are times when after reading your recaps I have been convinced to give a drama a try I would otherwise never try.

So thank you Javabeans and girlfriday for sharing with us all your excitement and fangirling with us.!

10 years? Hooray!

I can't come in person, but I'll definitely be there in spirit to toast y'all for providing this fun space to indulge my k-drama habit. :)

Wow, congratulations dramabeans! I honestly just found this site two years ago and you guys are the best recaps site that i ever seen. I love how each of you taking time to recap the drama perfectly it feels like i could always come here to enjoy the drama(s) i love in the novel version. Yes, you guys really rock at writing recap it felt so natural and i just love it. Thank you for these past two years i've known you and the eight years before of your hard work. I wish i could come to your party and talk about drama with all the dramabeans staff, but since i live in Indonesia i can only wish you all to enjoy it! And hope for many good things return to all the dramabeans staff for the eleventh year~

Happy Anniversary!! The kdrama insight I get on Dramabeans, plus the camaraderie and otp shipping has become a essential part of my day. Thank you so much for everything you do!

Congratulations! I'm sure you all already know that this site means so much to us kdrama fans. I regularly find myself thinking about how lucky we are, so thank you for all the hard work that has gone into running and maintaining this site. From my first meeting through Gaksital to endless nights because of Healer, the podcasts and all the drama news, you guys fuel my addiction.

Wish I could be there at the meet-up because I would love to be able to meet the real people who love kdramas (why are there so few of us?), but unfortunately, I would have to be there in spirit.

I'm one among the many readers here who are extra grateful to this lovely,happy place. I was going through a tough time last year when I stumbled across kdramas. While the dramas themselves were a distraction,your laugh-out-loud recaps and meta posts were the ones that finally brought a smile on my face after a long time. I wonder if you know how much you've helped people like me!??
Thank youJavaBeans,Girlfriday,Heads,Lollypip and every other writer who has contributed to Dramabeans. May you have many many years of enthusiasm and the ability to truly enjoy happiness in life! Cheers!!??

I wish I could attend. I always have nobody to talk about my love for kdramas with. If such event was happening in England I could go.

?? Its okay. I hope those who attend, have tons of fun.

You guys have made such a loving community out here for drama lovers. This platform is truly one-of-a-kind!
Kudos for your constant efforts to make drama watching a much more fun experience. Have an amazing time!

Love from India ♡

Congratulations! Also, thanks! Because running the site might be fun, but it also requires a lot of hard work and discipline, and these days good management skills for the minions. We sincerely appreciate it.

Congrats DB! May I add how thoughtful is it of you guys to remember beanies, the DB community in celebrating your anniversary. That's one of the things about DB that I like a lot. You value your audience.

I wish I could fly from Brazil to attend this party!

I've just found DB in the last year, but is an addiction to me. Happy Anniversary!

congratulations! wow you deserve a birthday card - wish I knew you actual address. do you want one? I can send it.

Happy 10 year anniversary Dramabeans! I feel like I've missed out on so much because I'm barely approaching one year of watching dramas.. ? But I've absolutely loved being involved in this community and look forward to many more years of dramas with my fellow beanies!

Congratulations dramabeans team!!! You guys are the bestest :) I think I've been reading dramabeans since Coffee Prince and hooked ever since!!

It would be awesome if you guys made it out to NYC for all the east coast beanies sometime!! <3

Congratulations to the entire dramabeans team! It's been a great 10 years with you guys.

Any chance beanies could organize similar meet-ups in other major cities (ex. NY, Seattle, Toronto)?

I've been lurking on DB for at least 5 years now. I can't tell you how much I appreciate this site and your awesome recaps! :) Here's to another year of DB awesomeness :)

Oh wow, this post made me realize that 2017 will be my fifth year watching k-dramas. From being someone who hated watching foreign language features and didn't appreciate subtitled-works, I've now come to understand a language just because I've seen so many subtitled features in it. My Korean friends are always surprised by how much of their conversations I can pick up (it's also a standing joke that I've seen more dramas than any of them, and am way more in touch with all recent industry happenings, and thus get asked for recommendations often.)

Reply 1997 was my first k-drama, my first love truly, and the one I still look back with that hazy idea of absolute perfection that nothing will match up to, perhaps, because it was the first. I consumed much more standard fare immediately after that and loved it madly too (*coughBOFcough*), but I think my first drama being that one was the reason that all my preconceived biases about watching TV in an unknown language were blown away all at once, because it was just that good, just that relatable. I hadn't been a teenage in Korea in 1997, but I had been a teenager and that was enough, because, despite being so deeply situated in its time and age, the feelings it evoked were so universal, that the language barrier, the cultural barrier melted away, and Siwon and her dad were the best representation of me and my dad that I had ever come across. It made me realize how much closer these dramas and their characters and their culture were to my own life in a way that Western teen dramas had never been, since they depicted a culture I was familiar with through TV but never saw replicated around me in my country.

And that, indeed, is how I found Dramabeans, wanting to read more about this new world, and get my hands on everything that related to it. Which was especially helpful for a newbie starting with Reply 1997, because that drama had so much nuance and referentiality and clever language puns, that I could have never possibly caught on my own. Reading through the recaps, having aspects detailed that I'd have completely missed, enhanced an already amazing experience manifold. Now we're in the age of Reply 1988 and I get quite a lot of the cultural and language puns without aid, but reading recaps is just as engaging as it used to be all those years back when I was just dipping my feet in to test the waters (...and then fell in headfirst, right into the depths of it).

Thank you girls for a wonderful journey! How lovely it is to grow old together with the Dramabeans community!

Aw, I can't believe how long it's been! I'm so grateful to you and GF and all the beanies who have joined in along the way to keep this wonderful site going.

I still remember when I first stumbled on DB in 2007 after a girl at school got me to watch Coffee Prince. I had actually already watched Dal Ja's Spring and a few other older dramas with her, but Coffee Prince was the first show I caught up with by myself during its run. When the episode 6 ending sent my crying, looking for the song that played, I found your post on the lyrics to As One's White Love Story and then, much later, your recaps on Mixed Up Investigative Agency and Que Sera Sera.

It was only after my roommate from college brought me back to k-dramas in late 2011 with You're Beautiful that I really found the site and stuck with it though. I think it was the You're Beautiful recommendation post that I stumbled on? It had several of my early favorites + many shows I'd missed out on. And so DB became my guide to dramas ever since! Haha, it actually wasn't until I rewatched Coffee Prince in 2012 that I even realized DB was the same site I came across way back in 2007.

Hopefully I can make it to the party this time, but, if not, I hope you all have an amazing time :)

Thank you Dramabeans for making this blog even more wonderful with each year! I started reading your articles wayyy back when it first began, and it continues to be the one and only blog I turn to for thoughtful articles and discussions on Korean dramas. Congratulations and Happy New Year!!

Wow!! 10 years and still going strong!!! Here's to 10 more years of drama fun!!

To bad the party isn't in April. I will be in LA for the BTS concert. But, 7hrs is too long to drive to just attend a party, even though it's hosted by the wonderful Dramabeans staff. I will celebrate with you all in spirit!!

Thank you Dramabeans for providing us insightful commentary, funny annecdotes, and a community for all us drama addicts!! Cheers to 2017!!!

Congulaturations and happy anniversary, i wish you the best.
For me it's the fourth year since i've been to dramabeans and iam here to stay. Yeah you heard me.
I just wish i was somewhere near LA so i could attend. But AFRICA, oh wait, ZAMBIA to LA? That's a loooooong way.

CONGRATS ON 10 YEARS! Although I'm a relatively new beanie (I started dramas in 2014), I stumbled upon this website when I was in the midst of watching Heirs (my very first drama), thinking it was the most amazing drama ever. It was not until reading the analysis of it on DB that I realized that there were much better dramas out there (at least in my opinion). Besides discovering that, I also found a community of drama lovers who were as invested in dramas as I soon became. Though I don't have as much time to watch dramas anymore (I'd like to attribute this to the relentless amount of work my teachers pile on us and college apps), with DB, I've been able to keep up with what's going on the Drama-verse without having to sacrifice too much sleep. And for that, I will be forever grateful. I hope that my teachers this semester will lay off a bit (since we're almost about to graduate!!) and I'll be able to spend a bit more time watching dramas again. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the 10th anniversary party, but I just want to say thank you all for changing my life in unimaginable ways--exposing me to new perspectives and shaping me to be a more inquisitive and discerning human bean. Who knows? Maybe I'll end up going to college in LA and being able to make these future events! :)

congrats on your 10th anniversary!!
i've followed this blog daily for 6 years now, was just looking at your other links (top posts, FAQs, etc.) and noticed the 2007-9 date stamps...

i understand what you say about not being able to keep a "proper job", being your own boss(es) - hopefully this business will allow you all the flexibility to manage and balance your personal lives with your professional lives (i.e., marriage, children...)!

who wants a "proper job" anyway?
*winks*

Wow, how quick time flies!! Although my love for kdramas dwindled a bit, I still enjoy coming to this site to read recaps. So thank you to everyone who has made this site a delightful experience! All that hard work has been worth it :)

Wow! Congratulations to dramabeans for your 10th year of making us drama addicts look completely normal and loved. It's always hard to find someone around who has the same passion about kdramas as I do but dramabeans is full of that kind of people! Yep. This is not just a kdrama site but a whole lovely community of people who are similar to me. I love the discussions going on here so I always come back. A day is not the same without visiting dramabeans.

I wish I could go but I can't. I'm celebrating with everyone though. Congratulations!

Gah Has it really been this long???

I can't believe it and yet I can. I honestly don't think my kdrama obsession would have stayed so strong without this blog's existence. Because it's kept this window open to me that links me to so many other addicted fans. It also helped me provide context and better understanding of the nuances of a drama so many times when subtitles alone could not. And man, that makes me think of the sheer number of dramas I've watched over the years.

I've been following y'all since late 2007 and it's been so much fun watching this site grow into this amazing fanbase. New faces and old fans, it's always interesting watching us bond from all over the world.

Congratulations JB and GF and staff! You are all awesome and amazing and I thank you so much for existing and for giving us all a space to write our krdrama dissertations with abandon!

Hah, I even won a laptop because of this site! Which is still in use!

Congrats you guys! Here's too ten more tears! I love reading all the post of the international beanies! If only we could persuade Korean Air as a sponsor to fly all of us out to LA! Maybe Subway will do it for some product placement :D!

I am sending my love from the Netherlands and wish you a blast of a party!

Congratulations DB team! I've been a reader since 2009/2010 (circa Boys Over Flowers/You Are Beautiful). I come to DB for your amazingly detailed recaps and reviews, and walk away educated about the Korean culture. Thank you for creating and nurturing the Beanies community. Reading everyone's theses and jokes truly brings the kdrama watching experience to the next level! I always look forward to hearing all the different takes on the same scenes and acts. A beautiful reminder to stay humble and keep an open mind--lessons I never thought I would learn from my kdrama addiction :)

Happy 10th Anniversary and Happy New Year!! ❤

My life wouldn't be the same without this website honestly. Thank you dramabeans for always keeping us drama fans on top of drama news and providing us with these helpful recaps \^0^/ Cheers to more years to come!

Happy 10th Anniversary!!! :D

I have checked this site almost everyday since 2007 when Coffee Prince was being recapped. I was still a teenager then, and now I'm almost 30! It's been a blast, and I really thank you all for making drama watching even more awesome.