Boys over Flowers!!

This drama changed my life!! Thanks to this drama i got to know a whole new wold :D Back then i was hooked, and my love for Lee Minho and Kim Bum began :D Gosh it's been so long.....
Thank God i stumbled across this drama. It made me a drama addict (don't really know if i should be happy or not :S)

My first drama love was My Name is Kim Samsoon. I had seen other dramas before then, and enjoyed them, but not until Samsoon had I discovered that I could fall so deeply into a drama that I was on tenterhooks every week waiting for the next episode, and shouting at my screen at Samshik! It even hooked me to the point that I needed my very own Samsook pig.

Happy 5th Anniversary and looking forward to many more anniversaries to come!

My first and the one that made me love kdramas was My Girl. :-)
Lee Dong Wook was also my first K-actor crush :P

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Mine was My Girl and I still love it! I watched Personal Taste, Playful Kiss, and BOF before that but My Girl was the one who won me over. I would rewatch it every now and then and would never get tired of it. Therefore, the pairing of Lee Da Hae and Lee Dong Wook will always hold a special place in my heart and will always be a loyal follower of the Hong Sisters. My biggest wish is for Lee Da Hae and Lee Dong Wook to team up in another project, but I do know it's a long shot xD. I still hold some hope tho :D I will forever be happy if it does happen. My first year of obsession = 2010 ^.^
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the drama that started it all for me was Boys Over Flowers...i fell hard, and hadn't regret turning into a drama addict:)

I would have to say Full House, I couldn't resist falling in love with the adorkable Rain. *drool* After seeing quite a bit more dramas I know it had many pitfalls, nevertheless it was my first XD

My first drama love was 9 End 2 Outs, which coincidentally was the drama that took my drama virginity. Although it's in my top favourites it isn't my favourite of all time (Because there's City Hall & Coffee Prince - Dramas that have forever stolen my heart...they refuse to give it back).
But 9 End 2 Outs is a really good drama - one that I owe my addiction to dramas to.

Boys Over Flowers! It wasn't the best drama but c'mon, all that eyecandy *o*

-cough- lee min ho -cough-

Ever since then I've never turned back and have been officially sucked into the kdrama world!

The first drama that brought me into the k-drama craze was Full House. I thought it was such a cute story and I even liked the repetitiveness of plot! After this, I searched up dramas that had similar stories and came across Delightful Chun Hyang. For some reason, however, it took me several attempts to start Goong even though Goond also has a bickering pair living together. Thanks Dramabeans for being a wonderful source of info/insights/critiques of k-drama!

The first k-drama that got me addicted was Stairway to Heaven. I'm in my 20s, so I've watched a lot of dramas. That one opened the doors to K-drama craziness for me. It had your typical girl who loses her memory, it had the evil family members who tried to sabotage the main characters. And it had the typical infamous korean tragedy that always befalls on k-drama main characters: a terminal illness. Plus it got me addicted to Kwon Sang Woo. I used to think he was hot and was such a big fan of his back in the day.

Goong, with Yoon Eun Hye! I was instantly in love, and I never looked back.

My drama first love was Boys before flowers in the year 2009, and I'm been addicted to K-dramas ever since..when you see Lee-Min- Ho in a swim suit there's no going back. ^^

+My first love for K-drama is "All About Eve"... even till now after re-watching it... It's still have a special feeling in my heart...:)

Stairway to Heaven :)
Though I also love historical dramas

For K-dramas it was Jewel in the Palace. I had watched others before (Full House) but it was this one which sucked me in. It was all thanks to the AZN channel which was the only channel I had that aired K-dramas and their weekend marathons of Jewel in the Palace. I still remember the frustration I felt every weekend when the marathon ended. It brought me into the world of dramas and frantically searching up the Internet to find out what happened!
However, the one that really sucked me into K-dramas specifically was 49 Days and Prosecutor Princess. I love those two dramas with every inch of my being.

Congrats on 5 years! Its even crazier to think that I have visiting this site for 3 of those 5 years now. How time flies indeed.

The drama that brought me to the dark side was Goong. I watched it in 1 weekend and I've never looked back.

Congratulations on your 5th anniversary.

The first drama that started my K-drama addiction was Lovers in Paris. I remember stumbling upon it by chance on youtube then did a marathon on veoh...from start to finish, I think it took me around 22-23 hours to finish... I watched it straight taking only bathroom breaks and time to heat food...hahaha... If I remember correctly, I watched this around the beginning of 2005...from that point on, it became a full-blown addiction with me soending countless hours watching every possible K-drama that I could get my hands on... lol... 2005 to 2009 have been crazy years for my k-drama addiction but it has (in my opinion) waned a bit since 2009 since I do not watch every single drama that comes out anymore but instead watch only those that are interesting to me plus I have also dropped several that was not to my liking :) part of the reason might have been due to the fact that I watch more k-variety shows now.

Although I have been watching korean dramas for a while now, my first love would have to be My Girlfriend is a Gumiho! Best drama ever

Princess Hours. I was sick at home and cable was out of service that particular day. So I started surfing through local channels and I saw this amazing scenery at this palace and some hot Asian dudes and I fell in love right away. Needless to say, I called the channel, asked for info regarding the tv show that was being aired, and found myself watching the entire series at crunchyroll.com in less than two days. And thus, my kdrama obsession began!!!! :)

full house! that's for sure.
by that time, internet was still out of my reach so i just watch any korean dramas aired on tv station. it was the time when local dramas started to get really really tiresome that even one of the most-tiring-korean-drama-ever was like a drop of water in the middle of my 'entertainment' desert.
*sigh* (not so) good ol' days.

oooh, it was definitely you're beautiful. there was no turning back for me after 16 episodes of tae-kyung's guyliner.

"Personal Taste" was my first Korean Drama. A little over a year ago, I randomly stumbled accross it on hulu and tried it out. Then after I had watched a few episodes and my addiction was really starting to take hold...they pulled it off hulu! So then I had to go search it out on other websites...which led me to discover that there were other Korean dramas out there. And evenutally I stumbled accross a great site called "Dramabeans" which helped me navigate the cultural nuances of the dramas lost on this very non-Korean woman from the U.S.

First of all, congratulations to us all! But especially to JB and GF :D
(also can't believe the amount of pages this post has! MAN...

Oh well, here's my two cents...

My Girl.
It was hilarious, fun, and totally addictive! Not to mention, I totally LOVED Lee Da Hae in it. And we mustn't forget Lee Dong Wook ;)

A netflix suggestion of BOYS OVER FLOWERS, brought me over to the right side, lol

Totally out of left field, I stumbled across THE juggernaut of K-drama, "Dae Jang Geum", on a public access channel. No, I'm not BS-ing you: Public access.

Somehow, a guy who works out of a closet in his folks' house (purely guesswork on my part) had gotten the U.S. distribution rights.

Anyway, he worked it out with a rinky-dink student-run station to broadcast it throughout that summer. If I recall, each episode was shown 4 or 5 times a day!

For years, the only Korean stuff I knew were, DJG, Memories of Murder (purchased from a video club because I had to make one more buy before cancelling -- do you remember video clubs?) and of course the jars of kimchee next to the plastic tubs of tofu in the supermarket. But, for only 3 things, they're 3 very good things, right? I think I lucked out; you can let me know if I'm mistaken.

Congrats on the milestone and the excellence you achieved in the process. As they say on weekend dramas when someone gives birth, "Good job!"

WOW Happy Anniversary Dramabeans !!!

My very first drama, the one that got me into this this whole wonderful mess, was Boys Before Flowers. I found it totally by accident one day while playing around on Hulu and I was totally hooked after one episode. I've actually gotten a lot of my family and friends into Korean dramas because of BBF, and even though its not the best written drama it will always have a very special place in my heart because...well...it was my first !

My drama first love is What Happened in Bali. I was rooting for Soo Jung and Jae Min. Since then i watched many dramas, i am still has weak spot for Jo In Sung's tears.

1st ever Autumn Sonata but not finished then Dae Jang Geum all 50+ eps cos it was just so great and different from the standard tear jerkers that had been k-dramas before. Plus its all about the power of woman!! yeah

For me, when I was younger, I use to watch tons of hindi dramas. The world of extra marital affairs, revenge, lust, social class etc was very interesting to my 14 yr old girl inner self. Yes I was 14 at the time when all this intrigued me. But unlike K-Dramas which have a set number of episodes, Hindi Serials as the call it, goes on and on and on and on sometimes of even 1000 episodes. Until finally the show loses popularity and they create the most bizarre endings ever possible to man.

So I guess K-dramas was replacing my childhood love for dramas.

My first drama love was def Boys Over Flowers. I got into K-Pop Nov 2008. So I was pretty interested in all things Korean. By around Feb 2009, all these K-Pop idols I were fans of were talking about this drama called Boys Over Flowers. I was like what is this show. I youtube-ed it and ended up watching like 8 eps in one sitting. CRAZY. And of course in a couple of days I like caught up and couldnt wait for the next eps. Hello, to the world of K-DRAMA ADDICTION. Since than I have watched tons and tons of dramas. I even have a journal where I write down the dramas I have watched. I know I am that obsessed.

Now that I look back on it, this drama is kind of silly, with few material and TONS OF FLUFF. But hey wont like it was first love. All the hot guys, pretty girls and just plain fluff and dream like story intrigued me when I was teenager in high school. My drama tastes have now changed but BoF will forever me the first shot of soju *coughdramacough* that brought me into this whimsical world of K-Dramas.

Ahh, so mainstream, but Boys Over Flowers!
I mean, who could resist that never-ending whirlwind of feelings?

You're Beautiful!!!!!!
A.N.JELL all the way! <3 <3

My first love kdrama was Hong Gil Dong...
In the first 5 minutes, i was not really in. But Sung Yuri was so natural that i feel in love with the serie... She make me cried a lot...

The first drama that made me fall in love with dramas is Boys Over Flowers. This drama made me discover what made korean television so interesting and made me a big fan of lee min ho t the point that I had to watch anything else he was in(City Hunter, Personal Taste:P)

Boys over flowers....
I <3 Gu Jun Pyo :))))))

My first kdrama was City Hall, the chemistry between the leads was sizzling hot! I was especially hooked by the kissing scene in episode 14. It was so sensuous, I replayed the scene over and over!

My first drama I fell in love with was Goong/Princess Hours.
At the beginning I did not know anything about K-Dramas because there are not that popular here in Germany.
But it all started when I read the manga of Goong. I was so interested that I researched about it and then I found out that there is a korean drama about it , so I decided to give it a try. I really enjoyed every minute of this drama and I was so upset that it ended. I found the actress was really good so I started to watch other dramas from her. I realized that not only the series in Germany or in America are good but the dramas in South Korea aswell. I am really thankful that I watched Goong and find the K-drama world. If not I would not have seen those beautiful dramas and this site so I NEVER REGRET IT and I WILL NEVER REGRET IT!

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Pasta was my first K-Drama - all thanks to one bored summer night and hulu! Since, it was my first drama I loved it. It was cheesy, cute, and something better than the cable and Chinese TV shows that I was watching! Thanks to Pasta, I watched Personal Taste. My first love - Lee Min Ho! And I bet you know what my next drama love was - no, not BOF that was the fourth, it was You're Beautiful- by that time I was addicted! Now, I knew the meaning of a K-Drama addict. At times I wouldn't sleep until the sun rose or 15 mins. late to work just because I couldn't wait until the next day/after work to watch the next episode. Because of my new addiction I found you, dramabeans. You were and still are my best friend the K-drama world next to allkpop :p I go on your site almost everyday just to catch up on my dramas (that you recap) to keep up in case I can't watch or won't watch, but just read and let you do all the work, kekeke ^.^ Because of my addiction I came to love K-pop and K-music in general then onto Korean culture and especially their food! I don't know how my life would be if it weren't for that faithful night. Happy anniversary dramabeans and may there be more years to come for us to rant about dramas we love and hate!! ^_*

Happy Birthday! :)
My first drama (and drama love) was Playful Kiss, early last year.

I was sick, in bed, and I had just cancelled cable due to my addiction to Jersey Shore (don't judge!!) . So I logged on to Hulu to wtch something, and somehow decided to watch PK (Must have been KHJ's looks ;-) ).

16 hours later, I realized I'd marathoned through the entire thing. Obsession doesn't even begin to describe the first few weeks - I watched PK a couple of times, and then off I went in search of more! And the rest, as they say, is history :)

You're Beautiful!

It's funny because I remember watching kdramas in the past that were shown in our local tv channels, but You're Beautiful was the first I got addicted to and watched in my computer on my own. It was the start of my love for kdramas.:D

Definately Coffee Prince..
By watching this drama, make me want to persuit my dream. Finally taking a barista course and now have a small coffee shop in town.

My first love was the japanese of Hana Yori Dango. Til lthis day that drama gives me chills! After that I found my way in to other dramas and i NEVER went back!! ^^