coz of kdramas: (in random order)

-fave noodle: nongshim ramen; also converted my family into followers..lol!
-beacame an admin for a JKS fansite
-roped hubby into buying soju and makeoli and drink it w/ the family..kekekek!^_^
-successfully cooked kimbap
-have sporadic cravings of eating at korean restos (esp. bulgogi and samgyeopsal)
-made my younger sister teach at an english school for koreans
-30% of the music on my pc are kpop
-watches korean channel on tv
-prerfers korean variety show(1N2D, running man..etc.) to local tv shows
-hunted for korean ice cream at our local supermarket(luuuv them!)
-drag my hubby to korean day at the mall and had my picture taken w/ a korean officer at the event
-uses 'YAH!' when calling my younger sister..lol!
-invited my younger sisters' korean students on my bday and had them sing 'happy birthday' in korean..LOL!
-adopted one of my younger sis' students as my 'korean dongseng'..and he luvs it coz he loves my kimbap..LOL!
-fave OL game: Ragnarok (korean made)
-beacame loyal to LG..lol!

..and a lot more to remember..^_^

NOT a resident of US/Canada

Watching kdramas has enabled me to learn more about the Korean culture--I often feel I know more about Kpop idols than my actual Korean friends, which they are both annoyed and fascinated by!

Haha, like some others, I pulled some all nighters in the name of K-drama. I'm usually a 9-hour sleep kind of person.

I started making kimchi at home for the first time! It probably didn't taste as good as the store bought ones but I was sooo proud of myself :D

I've made my friends fellow K-drama watchers and now they are just as engrossed as i am. Started eating and trying more Korean food. Pulled all nighters when watching last episodes or whole series. Increased my dvd collection with the purchasing of my favorite dramas. Searched and watched on multiple websites for dramas not streamed on main sites. Given up all hope of ever watching another American show again (just can't compete). Wrote down ideas for my own k-drama and try to figure out a way to break in to the biz. Become obbessed with your website...visit it atleast 3 times a day..no lie..you can check my web history on my computer.

I am going to South Korea this year because of kdramas!

Every time I see a korean restaurant, I get the urge to eat there. And I'm always recommending friends to try samgyupsal especially to those who haven't tried korean cuisine yet. Also, I can't go a week now without reading k-drama recaps or k-drama newsbits. It's like my day's not right/incomplete if I don't get my fill. And when I get hooked on a drama? It's madness I tell you! The long wait for the next episode is infuriating and frustrating, especially when the previous one ended with a killer cliffhanger. Alas, excellent k-dramas have a way turning even the most poised and intelligent of women into blubbering/giggling/squealing fangirls. And yet I wouldn't want it any other way. ^^

One of my favorite dramas is The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry. I loved it so much that i went out and bought some Makegoli, after of course first googling it! So now I bother the ajumma at my local Korean restaurant for soju and makegoli at least once a week and I LOVE kukktobi! My favorite. Yu-jin and Dong-Wook also started a Kimbap snacking habit! I buy all the ingredients and after Much trial and error I finally have it down. I even had to pick up my korean skills so the video store ajumma didnt look at me crazy every time i tried to tell her the name of a drama I wanted to find!.

Every since that fateful day when i stumbled upon You're Beautiful Korean Drama's have begun to consume my life! I even have a trip to korea planned for this summer!!!

Aaaahhhhh! <~ I'm excited hehe

I made kimchi! And many other Korean dishes.
I'm 17 & I'm not a fan of cooking, but I had to get some idea about the taste of Korean food.
Kdramas were also the gateway to my Kpop obsession, and my love for the Korean language.

*Not a resident of the US\Canada*

K drama has convinced me that Korea is a valid second if I can't get a job in Japan. Not only that, but I would like to take a year to teach there after I have had a few in Japan.

K-drama made me want to eat Bibimbap all the time! :-)

I started calling my daughter "ahjumma" and my son "ahjussi" when they are behaving like aunties and uncles :)

learning Hanguk-eo and listening to k-music (not just k-pop)

1. Visiting Dramabeans way too many times a day.
2. Making Korean friends who went to my college.
3. Visiting Korean restaurant EVERYTIME I get the chance.
4. Stalking many many korean blogs and sites to read about celebrity news.
5. Checking out korean celebrities' profiles and their skin care tips, etc. *embarrassed - hangs head down in shame*
6. Learn a lot about converting, downloading, etc. which I would not have cared a teeny tiny bit if not for korean dramas.
7. Downloading dramas (which occasionally come with their fair share of viruses) and pictures of celebrities (esp. Yoon Eun Hye - it's almost embarrassing how many pictures I own).
8. Using korean celebrities' pictures as avatars, wallpaper, etc. for my fb account, laptop, phone...you name it!
9. Begging people from youtube to provide english subs for interviews, behind the scenes stuff, etc.
10. Using words like omo, oppa, kamsahamnida, annyeonghaseyo, etc.
11. Try to convert my close friends to watch korean dramas, who on the other hand are tempted to call intervention on my behalf.

*NOT a resident of US/Canada.

Ever since i started to watch korean dramas, I have enjoyed eating korean food more. The food in the dramas looks so yummy! I have also started to listen to kpop too. & i love kim hyun joong's OST from playful kiss, One more time. Also, i call my brother ahjussi. I love etude house stuff too cos it has cute and awesome freebies with korean stars like SHINEE.

Not a resident of US/Canada :)

Many, many things! I started learning Korean, I ate Korean food, which I never had before, listening to K-indie songs (thanks to some K-dramas and Dramabeans, I got to know lots of really good K-indie group.), visited Korea 2 years ago... am planning to visit Korea again end of this year! :)

*Not a resident of US/Canada*

Well, since I started watch dramas .... i'm like my other fellas here.... start learning Korean, trying korean food, went to Korea and look for every place that I know a drama was filming in like Building 63 (My Girl) hahahha .. change music Style... I used to be an american pop music fan... now is more like K-pop,J-pop,Tw-pop in my mp3... and of course my taste in men is really different now, have u heard the expression "Once you go yellow, you never go back" that's me! ... love asian men!! :D

*not US/Canada resident
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Dramas quickly went from being a hobby to a part of my life. Like many other obsessed fans who've replied I started learning Korean bit by bit. I also tried making kimchi which as you might have guessed didn't turn out so well ^^ I also went to my first, and the state's only, kpop concert when the WonderGirls were touring, even though it meant getting a drink spilled on me from the upper level, and even though I'm not even a JYP fan it was awesome!

But my biggest obsessed move is probably starting a blog about Asian dramas and now trying to post more and more so I can make it part of my livelihood. I would have never imagined myself even wanting to watch Asian dramas six years back!

1) Started self-learning Korean
2) Look for food I see in Korean dramas in my country, try them and then try to recreate them at home
3) Lost sleep keeping up with Korean dramas
4) Tried (and succeeded!) to convert my friends into kdrama addicts (:

*I'm not a US/Canada resident.

- I have named our dogs after and stuffed toys after kdrama characters :) My teddy bears are named Goong and Kim Shin. My dogs are named Mishil and Deokman!
- I have travelled to Korea and arranged my itinerary around kdrama locations. I surprised my travel companion when in Nami Island, I started singing along to 'Noreul Saranghe' (one of the songs from 'Coffee Prince') which was being played in one of the establishments. :)
- I tune in to KBS more than to the local free TV channels (KBS is part of our cable TV package)
- I watch live Korean channel even if they are not yet sub-titled and even if i have a limited understanding of Korean. :)
- Sometimes, if a Korean show that I like is being recapped, I checked dramabeans.com more than my FB account.

*I'm not a resident of US/Canada

Watching dramas has made me Korea CRAZY! I do all of it now! I eat kimchi, drink soju, and listen to Kpop. But most life changing of all is my new obsession with visiting my local Korean spa. I have made all my girlfriends try a ‘hip bath’ (reference Women That Want to Marry Ep 7 for a visual)

-Spicy Korean ramyun noodles is now my hangover food, replacing pho!!:)

-Trying to learn Korean so if I end up watching a drama raw, I can still follow along.

Hmmm....let's see....

Listening to Korean songs...started after I got hooked with K-dramas.

Visiting Korea....several times because I became obsessed of visiting places in Korea after watching K-dramas.

Using Korean brand cosmetics...FaceShop...Skin79...Missha...Etude...because my fav actors and actresses endorse those brands....

Visiting dramabeans website at least once a day...because of Korean dramas ;-P

The list never ends....

PS: I am not a resident of the US / Canada.

I've started to learn to speak Korean! Sometimes even in my head....kinda weird, but it happened.

Sometimes when I pick up the phone, I start to say "Yeobosayoo?" lol...you get the picture!

- I have named our dogs after and stuffed toys after kdrama characters My teddy bears are named Goong and Kim Shin. My dogs are named Mishil and Deokman!
- I have travelled to Korea and arranged my itinerary around kdrama locations. I surprised my travel companion when in Nami Island, I started singing along to ‘Noreul Saranghe’ (one of the songs from ‘Coffee Prince’) which was being played in one of the establishments.
- I tune in to KBS more than to the local free TV channels (KBS is part of our cable TV package)
- I watch live Korean channel even if they are not yet sub-titled and even if i have a limited understanding of Korean.
- a lot of times, if a Korean show that I like is being recapped, I check dramabeans.com more than my FB account.
- I have become a Bon Chon chicken addict.

after watching kdrama i started exploring korean foods..i even learned how to make few of them...i am now learning korean..still at beginners level :(

from uk.

I have become a male fanboy of Lee Seung Gi, following his variety shows, loving kimchi and deokbokki, and pretty much any korean food and loving the korean culture in general.

''Question: What new thing have you done in the name of K-drama? Has becoming a K-drama watcher made you start eating kimchi, travel to Korea, or switch to soju as your drink of choice? Tell us about some way in which watching dramas has changed your everyday life. (*Don’t forget to use a valid email address, and this time please indicate at the bottom of your comment if you are NOT a resident of US/Canada.)''

My Answer: YESS! Oh MY GOODNESS when I was little I HATED SPICY FOODSS I REPEAT ''I HATE IT!!''
But When I started Korean dramas and started eating Ramyun,kimchi,I forgot what ''spicy''means!
I freak when I see Korean people here,"ANYONGHASEEYOOO''!
I love seing Korean people here,since there is not much K people here.
Goodness I had my mom addicted to Kdrama too and my brother got addicted to dramas!OMG,Kimchi I put it with my chicken,With Mcdonalds nuggets,Burger!
Goodness Korean food!!WAHHHH!!!

For my 18th birthday my dad promise me to buy me tickets to go to Korea!OMG I can die now imagining me in Korea!!WOO,ROCK ON!!

Someone my age shouldn't be this obsessed with asian drama. I started my own tumblr and twitter dedicated to my obsession. I stalk any/every blog that talks about asian drama or k/jpop. I started watching anime and reading manga!!! WTH? I have teenage daughters who shake their heads at me wondering why I spend all my free time glued to my laptop.

My fav playlist consists of OST from my favorite dramas and artists. My boss walks in and asks me why I am listening to music in another language. I tell him it brings back all the emotions I felt when watching the dramas. He shakes his head and walks out. I moved my monitors on my desk so no one can see me while I am watching my dramas online at work. I may just find myself fired for this!

I love Dramabeans. I check in daily and religiously read the recaps and year end reviews. You are directly responsible for my dependency. Thank you!

Watching K-dramas has definitely made me crave Korean food.

It has also led to several awkward interactions with a co-worker. I'm a plain vanilla American - 7/8 German/Austrian but all parts have been here for several hundred years. Basically Ms. Whitey Whiterson, and I grew up in Vermont, which was at the time the whitest state in the nation (I think Maine bumped us) so despite our school's earnest attempts to promote multi-culturalism I don't think I actually knew any Koreans until I went to college. One of my roommates was dating a Korean guy and that's how I ended up getting hooked on K-dramas.

However, in watching K-dramas sometimes questions come up about cultural references or things happen and I want/need to know if that's normal for Korea as a country or normal in K-drama-la-la-land. So, since I work with a Korean graduate student, I decided to ask him. Alas, the stereotype of science PhD students being socially awkward and not that into pop culture/fashion was a bit overly spot-on in this case (and he's been living here since he went to undergrad), so my questions about the zaniness of some of the fashions didn't go over so well. Luckily, a new Korean lab tech got hired by the lab next to mine and she is an actual K-drama fan! (Albeit one with no time to watch due to studying for the MCATs, so I actually end up getting her mother's impressions of shows instead) So now I can discuss cultural references and other things with her and the grad student has been let of the hook.

Lastly, I got one of my other co-workers to watch BOF and she thought that a friend of hers from college would like it so she got her friend to watch it. The friend watched it and liked it and got her sister to watch it - so now the three of us (co-worker's friend, co-worker's friend's sister and me) have loooong email conversations about what we're watching, what we think, what we want to watch next, etc. despite me having never met the two of them. But at least I found two fellow K-drama fans!

I've not only started to learn Korean, I'm actual going to pick up an move there. Watching dramas and movies, in particular Please Teach Me English, opened my eyes to the country and culture and I actually applied, and was accepted, as an English teacher in the public school system there. I shall be moving there in the next couple of months.

So for now I am a US resident, but that could change shortly.

Fighting!!

If there's a great struggle in my life, K-dramas made me say Fighting!

It's my new motto!

Also, I wiped out all Michael Jackson in my iPod. Replacing him with singers like Baek Ji Young, 4Men, and Lee Sueng Gi!!

I started to eat more noodles. It's always about food for me. And maybe use more Korean cosmetics. Everyone around these parts are always in awe of the clear Korean skin.

Providing me with entertainment and giving me the chance to take a break from reality and explore the vast lands Dramaland has to offer.

i would have to say that kdramas have affected me on both an emotional and a physical level. yes, kdramas have introduced me to the korean culture. i catch myself slipping the occasional aigoo and omo. actually it's more than occasional. i also call my mom umma and my dad appa. they respond. haha. i find myself driving 20 minutes away to the nearest korean grocery store in new jersey to buy kimchi, kimbap, dukbokki, soju, etc. and kpop is a necessity to my music library. but on a more emotional level, kdramas got me to be open-minded about relationships because the person you find yourself hating the most when you initially meet can be the one you fall in love with. kdramas have also taught me to go for what i want. it hurts more knowing that something you wanted was right in front of you and you didn't try to get it than trying hard to get what you want and failing in the end. at least in the end, you can say you tried.

My friends and I created a new game of "Go Fish" with cards that have Korean actors and singers on them instead of numbers/shapes/colors. We play all the time, and every game ends up being a vicious battle in claiming our favorite stars. In addition, for the last two years I have held "Kdrama" nights with my friends where I cook TONS of Korean food and then we all sit around my large tea table in my basement to eat, drink tea, play "Go Fish," and watch Kdramas!

hah, well there are actually loads of things. im just gunna sum them up
*made me want to eat korean food (which i did, although its really hard to get korean-ish seasonings)

*made me want to travel to korea. and i am gonna do it in the near future.

*made me like asians more that whites (and i am far from being asian)

*made me seem weird to my friends

*made me actually bow sometimes when i say ''hello'' or stuff like that.

*made me want to actually write my own drama, which would star lee min ho. and other great *cough*hot*cough* actors.

*made me loose my sleep

*whenever we have rice or pasta im eating them with chopsticks, which is like the coolest way to eat.. evaar

*made me addicted to them

those were just the thing on the top of my mind. haha i am pretty sure there are loads more.

meow@inbox.lv

and i am a resident of Latvia :)

from seoul, went to full house, was a whole-day affair. 730pm to 8pm!!!

1. euljiro (hotel) to unseo mrt station (right at the back of the lotte mart is the bus to sammock ferry)

2. bus ride to sammock port

3. riding the barge - we were the only two without cars. (payment to be made when coming back.)

4. bus ride from the port to sido island (one bus per hour, the same bus stop han ji eun would wait in)

5. tandem bike to full house - got frostbites!!!

and then the reverse going back

tasted the best authentic korean food in sido island (pension place)

rode a taxi from sido island to the port (point no. 4)

arrived in sammock port and took the wrong bus (bus went to airport and then to unseo. well at least i got more than an hour's rest and grocery shopped in unseo's lotte mart)

I started to adopt the “little” language things typically Korean: Michyeoganda, Chincha, Aish, Jeongmal (or the three at the same time!) I’m really trying to swear less in French (I live in Belgium) so instead I’m doing it in Korean: Nappeunnom, Nappeunnyeon, Michinnom, Kkojora. And at home we are like mianhae, gomawo, jeh-bahl, jalja. Every time that it’s possible for us to place a Korean word we do it! So sometimes when we used those words we seem like aliens among others…and we like it actually! Thanks dramaland!

My family is wondering why we're suddenly having bulgogi and Jim dak for dinner. Thank God for Korean cooking videos!

Oh my k-dramas have altered my lifestyle.... pulling allnighters to keep up with my drama list... stopped watched regular tv

730am i mean

730am-8pm

Watching dramas, specifically, Cinderella's Sister and The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, got me into drinking makgoelli. I had to try it--shaken and unshaken (like Da-jung in WWSWTM). Also, my computer desktop background features all the hot men of kdramas. The more dramas I watch, the new dudes I discover. Win-win.