Wow, there's a lot to tell... it has made me fall in love with the Korean language and culture and that has changed my life quite a bit.

- I enrolled for a language course at my university and have been studying Korean for almost 2 years now.

- I've gotten to know almost every Korean exchange student that has come to my city during the past year.

- Last summer I finally had the chance to visit South Korea and attend an intensive language course there.

- Nowadays I'm even helping to sub my favorite dramas. Oh, the obsession...

(not in US/Canada)

After graduation I took off and went to Korea for a year studying the language!

*I’m not a resident of US/Canada.
email: angelfaith84@hotmail.com

I call my husband yeobo normally, gu jyo pyo when i want to pamper and dokko jin when i m furious.

Other than Learning korean to speak and trying korean food at returants food i have booked 4 day trip to korea on my visit to my home country. I live in US and my home country is india , and am travelling thru seoul , am making a four day three night stop to see the famous spots - well not the tourist ones but the ones i watched in shows like namaan tower (bof) , the huge set of stairs in my name is kim sam son, the fountain on han river at night , han river where all actors go to brood, coffee prince shop, the list continues. I hope to run in to atleast one live shooting of a drama , donot care which one.

thats how korean drama changed me.

Dramas make everything look so awesome and delicious! After watching several dramas I've tried so many Korean dishes and went to Korea and visited some filming sites. I've developed a strong interest for Korean culture and language and even self-taught myself Korean. After many years of hard work, I'm now a translator for a forum for an idol group! So thanks, kdramas! :)

I'm 100% Korean but I suck at Korean. However, by having to watch raw videos without eng subtitles, I had to learn korean so I can watch a drama without having to wait for subs! :)

Oh gosh! This is all too embarrassing! My addiction to Kdrama is almost total! I took my honeymoon in Korea. When I was nursing my boy, I watched the whole series of Dae Jang Geum during my confinement. I spent my nights watching Princess Hours, Pure 19, You're Beautiful, etc and ended at work in the day with panda eyes. Now I have taken it up a notch, I have re-addicted myself to ramyun. There is something about the way ramyun is eaten in the dramas that make it so delicious, slurpi-licious and warm. My few favorite ramyun eaters include the ever-funny, 1N2D, BOF, Pure 19... I have also learnt to make many korean dishes and ate at least once a week at a korean restaurant. My favorites include the ahjumma's seafood stew, ddukbokki, pancake, korean bbq, kimchi stew, rice-rolls and many more. I cannot do without checking in on dramabeans daily for news, recaps etc. More than reading the daily news! My son listens to korean songs from my handphone. My next mission is to pick up Korean and go visit Korea again! :-)

Let's just say that i personally have the phone number of every Korean restaurant in my city and the next city listed on my phone. Half my fridge is filled with kimchi and other korean foods that i picked up from the nearest kmart, which is four hours away from me but near. I've started learning korean, i swear in korean really well and i have plans to stay with a friend of me living in Busan right now. I never actually got into kpop but i love indie korean music. i cheer anything korean, i mean i already consider myself half korean so please, if you know of any chaebols in the boston area, send to the nearest korean restaurant, i may have a table reserved!!! 크크

Watching kdramas has made me get really interested in Korea and it's culture. At first, my interest was only in the artists and nothing else, but as I kept watching more and more kdramas, my vision of this beautiful country started to change and I completely fell in love with it. I love it's culture, history and language, but sadly my knowledge isn't that great. Funny thing, I tried to eat kimchi and unfortunately it is to spicy for me, even though I come from Mexico, a country that loves to put chili pepper in everything. Apart from that, the other korean dishes I've tasted are delicious, especially bibimbap, probably one of my favorite breakfasts ever :D

Oh, like I said, I'm from Mexico

learning korean! i've also gotten into other types of korean programs -- think 1 night 2 days...

I LOVE korean food now! and I'm basically trying to learn Korean (not working). I also listen to kpop. Basically, I'm obsessed with anything having to do with kdrama.

Watching K-dramas is like hooking on a new leg to my body; it needs to be walked on to keep myself healthy and stuff...therefore i've bought korean cookbooks to make dishes and i've started to learn Hangul, all in the name of K-dramas. I listen to the OST's and try to learn as much as I can about the culture.

Watching K-drama have me listen to korean music and also eating korean food. The good thing is that my husband's co-worker makes kimchi, marinated meat and dopokki and give them to us. His co-worker is a very good cook!

Ahhhh, k-dramas have changed my life immensely. I think the two biggest areas are in FOOD and LANGUAGE.

Every time the characters slurp up some jajamyung, it makes me drool. Every time the main character mixes up a metal bowl of bibimbap, I wish I had one too. Kimchi looks delicious. Same with japchae. Can't forget about kimbap either. And ramyun. They make convenient store ramyun look so delicious. K-dramas in themselves are literally CFs for Korean food. Seriously. I live in a small town so it's hard to access these ingredients without having to travel over an hour to a decent Asian grocery store. Since then, I've only tried a small selection of Korean cuisine but daily, I crave something of the sort. My family vacationed in Georgia for a week and my parents and I were so in love with H-Mart. I bought metal chopsticks as a souvenir and I love love love using them.

K-dramas have also been a huge factor in learning the language. I originally was a fan of Japanese pop culture so I learned it in high school and in my first year of uni as well. I started to get back into the swing of K-dramas and K-pop and learned it for a semester before transferring out. I regret leaving that school because I'd love to learn more Korean. At the moment, I'm self-learning but it's always fun to watch a drama and pick up phrases as well as recognize phases you've already learned. Definitely worth it.

There's a lot more that K-drama's done to change my daily life. My writing has changed a lot because of K-dramas (and I secretly dream about being a successful K-drama writer some day). My musical tastes (Coffee Prince and Soulmate have killer OSTs). And even my future. I want to be in Korea. I want to LIVE there even though I know it's not going to be like a K-drama when I'm there. It just seems like an awesome place to grow in social aspects.

:) Well, that was a long one. I would like to confirm that I am a US resident hailing from the cheesy state called Wisconsin.

Now, I shall continue to lurk...

For many years, I boycotted TV because commercials drove me crazy. My kids and I used to watch our movies over and over but now I've rediscovered the small screen through K-drama, a daily dose of pure escape.

My daughter and I speak to each other in Korean over the phone even though I'm Chinese and she is Sino-Caucasian. We listen to K-pop and dance to it... we invented our own japchae with rapini and drove 4 hours to eat seulongtang.

I'm separated from my daughter now and when I visited Seoul last month and I basically took a "K-drama" photo shoot at every spot associated with shows that we've seen so that she could have some vicarious fun. I got to practice my Korean (all learned from TV) to the point where some vendors in Namdaemun told me they thought I was Korean American... 8)

By the way, everybody... skip the Coffee Prince place in Hongdae (It's become a sad shadow and the owner is very unfriendly).

We ate soondae... bindattuk and raw nakji (octopus)... and everything weird in sight...

I'm back in Singapore where I'm from and recently at a exhibition, somebody asked me if I was Korean and my mischievious self couldn't help telling her: choi seung hamnida, cheonan hangkuk saram aneyo... (I'm sorry I'm not Korean). We had a good laugh once she got over my prank. The big change for me is to be able to pull phrases like that out of my head.

*I’m no longer a resident of US/Canada.

I don't know why, but watching K-dramas (or any dramas actually) always has me hungry. Maybe it's the continuous array of food on the tables of the drama. Hence, my favorite snacking item is now: kimbap. That and ramen with egg.

It's amazing how many people have actually started to learn Korean though, perhaps that's the next change I'll make.

*Looks at kimchi in fridge and hides the soju*
Probably the most change is eating more korean food but I blame that entirely on 1N2D, after watching an episode I always try and recreate what they ate....except that whole egg/bread mess they had with the supporting actors special!
Learning korean was fun too mostly because my teacher was a linguist and used korean music as a learning tool.

I have no idea which drama I picked this habit up from, but whenever I am drinking (soda that is :D), I keep making a "WHAAAAA" sound with my throat after finishing a glass. I can't help saying it despite the fact that everyone around me thinks I am CRAZY! If only my friends watched Korean dramas... *sigh*

This is not really an everyday thing but, whenever i see the people eat something that looks good, i ask my mom to make it for me because she is korean..for example the other day i was watching Coffee Prince (for the 1000000 time) and Go Eun Chan was eating jja jang myun..and i really craved it so the next day i asked my mom to make it for me XDD.

I cant really do this as much because i am now in college and my mom is not here all the time but whenever i am home, i ask her to make FOOD haha XDD

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On my children's birthdays (I have two girls and one boy) I sing Happy Birthday to them in Korean.

I guess the first thing K-drama had ever changed me was by influencing me to listen to K-pop. Then it was finding and going to authentic Korean restaurants to try what all that food porn was about. The biggest change of all would probably be my view on romance. Damn you kdrama, you probably ruined by chances of dating forever. No real guy will probably compare to those perfect gentlemen in those dramas. They're sweet and addicting. Can't stop watching.

I help give my friends relationship advice based on what I've seen in dramas...and it works! haha.

In addition to having to schedule out which days I watch which episodes, I also use random Korean phrases ALL THE TIME - in my head, out loud, in writing.. I should just learn the language already! I have freaked out my sister more than once by yelling "Arasso?" at her...

Since seeing my first two Korean dramas, Lovers in Paris and Someday, I've become interested in Korean culture, history, music, TV and film.

The best part, other than getting to enjoy entertainment different from what I've been used to, I've learned about many similarities between Korea and my own Filipino heritage. My eyes have been opened to an entire culture.

Eating Korean food and watching out for latest fashion

Eating Korean food and watching out for latest fashion!!! =)

Watching korean dramas made me listen to MANY korean songs besides TVXQ/JYJ songs. Kdramas also forced me to watch MORE Kdramas!!!! LOL (>_<)

* Not a US/Canada resident but currently residing in US

Watching Korean dramas has changed me a lot!
Since I'm Chinese, my family would get our weekly groceries from this Chinese place (called 99 Ranch Market). Just after watching my first k-drama, I've been pushing my parents to drive a couple miles extra to this Korean place (called Zion Marketplace).
I suprised my family by talking to the Korean workers and shoppers with basic phrases. lol my parents' expressions were completely dumbstruck (I told them that I picked up phrases from my Korean friends because they are totally oblivious to my k-drama obsession).
I have also started calling my family in Korean; like oppa, appa, omma, etc. They still stare at me awkwardly.
My music variety has extended to k-pop and k-drama OSTs. (Thanks to Dream High, I've started to love IU, miss a, 2PM, and T-ara)
I have started to eat ramen after watching Flower Boy Ramyun Shop kimchi flavor due to Chi-soo licking Eun-bi's fingers when they made kimchi. (I still totally swoon just thinking about that scene lol)
I'm starting to believe in fate and coincidences, and how the guy you will always end up with is has the most annoying and/or rude personality when you first meet him..
And of course, I so badly want to visit South Korea! I want to eat the street food first hand and haggle with vendors and drink coffee and all that.
I guess I can say that k-dramas have changed me a bit :)

first off i became addicted
second i got addicted to kpop
third i got my friends addicted
fourth i started speaking korean phrases, which annoyed my friends
fifth i joined websites like these reading about dramas and kpop

but most of all, i'm supper thankful because kdramas and kpop inspired me to keep looking forward for tomorrow! if i didn't have people like you to read comments off of, i think i would be suffocating as a student. so thanks so much, you guys make me smile everyday when there's sometimes nothing that makes me smile. and because of kdramas i find inspiration in the little things that sometimes are overlooked. and that inspiration is what i thank you guys for. so keep up the gr8 work >_< :D
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It's a good question.. K-drama changed me? yes. i started going crazy learn the language and all the slangs. downloading the tutorial in internet, making a new korean friends teaching me. i finally can read the words and write thing in korean after only one hours learning. I've never been that fast when i learn things. even though i'm not that good at translate them but i can understand some of the conversation in drama or when i met some koreans who have conversations.

i'm getting excited whenever I see a display product with hangul on them and try to read them even though people keep staring at me. and the biggest thing for me is it even turned me into a college student with korea as my next level aim of study.

thank you dramabeans..congrats for the winners

I'm not resident of US/Canada

The biggest life change is that nearly all of the music I listen to now is Korean. I have so many Korean songs on my phone and if I'm in my car, you better believe I'm listening to/singing loudly along with Korean music. And I drive a lot. So basically I listen to kdrama ost songs, kpop, Korean rap and so so so much Korean music it's insane, (or normal I guess, if I was in Korea, or at all Korean).

My sister was actually saying the other day, that if we're together and I'm singing along to a newer American song, she'll look at me quizzically, like, 'you know this?' because all I listen to is Korean music.

I've been affected in other ways too, like I started learning Korean, I've gone grocery shopping at the H mart multiple times, I buy a bunch of my clothes from yesstyle.com, and my boyfriend and I go out to eat a Korean places. My favorite dish so far it Japchae! Sooo good. I also have a bottle of soju in my fridge. ;)

Kdramas have sucked so much of the sanity out of me, to the point that I have almost missed grad school applications deadlines to just.finish.that.last.few.episodes of a drama that's hooked me. My Korean friends call me their Korean friend who isn't Korean.

After watching Fantasy Couple, I had to have jajangmyun. Park Shi-Hoo made ramen look so good in Prosecutor Princess that I had to go out an buy a family-pack (ditto that on countless other dramas). I /had/ to learn to read Korean so that I could understand people's names on phones in dramas because the subs don't always translate them. I go to a nearby Korean restaurant so frequently that the couple who owns it knows me by name and are always super happy to see me.

I have a pig-bunny doll.

Dramas have introduced me to kpop (and once I had my fill of that, some really awesome indie-style Korean music), 1N2D (which I watched from the beginning), and wonderful Korean glass tupperware.

^This sounds really sad, but I promise I'm a well-rounded person with a variety of interests and friends (except for, let's be honest, while I'm watching a drama that's managed to hook me)

Because of the OSTs from kdramas, I listen exclusively to music in Korean. My ipod is filled with k-pop and k-indie, which I listen to everyday on my commute to work.

I have started to eat kimchi, forever in search of nice Korean food or restaurants in Singapore especially in the recent two years where kpop has dominated the ASEAN region.

I want to try makgullli(after watching the woman who still wants to marry) , but haven't gotten the chance yet :(. there aren't many korean mart in Singapore(sadly) except in the town area.

I WANT TO GO KOREA! (Have bookmarked the page on DB since) Ever since I started watching Korean drama 6 years old, last year my obsession was at an all time peak (City Hunter perpetually drove me crazy ;) I was staying up in the middle of the night to catch the raw episodes of City Hunter as soon as it is out. I even started posting comments on DB. (I was very much a silent reader).

Used to have KBS World at home and I often follow closely to the variety shows showing. Damn and I LOVE DREAM TEAM! (pretty long ago though, my dad cancelled cable subscription cos i was so obsessed)
There's also chit chat of the pretty ladies which shows how foreigners adapt to life in Korea with Korean Celebrities as guests. Always want to try out those "korean habits". Some of which are Kimchi and rice for supper, though it's very simple. yum yum!

My love for Kpop started from 5 years ago. DBSK! I am sure many of us know what has happened for the past 3 years to the members. It saddens me to see them split up and appearing on the same charts, competing each other.

My first concert in my whole life is JYJ The Beginning Showcase in Singapore 2010. This sounds pathetic seriously but due to restrictions from my parents, I am not allowed to go fangirling:(((( Until I grew older till High school.

I am not a resident of US/Canada.

The biggest life change is that nearly all of the music I listen to now is Korean. I have so many Korean songs on my phone and if I'm in my car, you better believe I'm listening to/singing loudly along with Korean music. And I drive a lot. So basically I listen to kdrama ost songs, kpop, Korean rap and so so so much Korean music it's insane, (or normal I guess, if I was in Korea, or at all Korean).

My sister was actually saying the other day, that if we're together and I'm singing along to a newer American song, she'll look at me quizzically, like, 'you know this?' because all I listen to is Korean music.

I've been affected in other ways too: like I started learning Korean, I've gone grocery shopping at the H mart multiple times, I buy a bunch of my clothes from yesstyle.com, I drag my boyfriend to a movie theater 45 minutes away to see Korean movies when they have US openings, and I love eating at this great Korean restaurant in my city. My favorite dish so far it Japchae! Sooo good. I also keep a bottle of soju in my fridge. ;)

picking up more and more korean cultures and customs..
also eating korean food..and pulling all nighters..just to watch dramas~

first i got addicted
second i got addicted to kpop
third i got my friends addicted
fourth i started speaking korean phrases, which annoyed my firnends
fifth i joined and started reading websites like these

but most importantly kdramas and kpop made me anticipate what would come tomorrow. it gave me a reason to keep wanting to reach for tomorrow. what i learned from all these stuff is that inspiration can come from the smallest of places. i thank people like all you guys for letting me read your own opinions. and even if i don't believe them, i love reading them anyway. If i didn't have kdramas and kpop in my life, i might be lost. THANKS SO MUCH, AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! CHEE >_<
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I've done many things because of Korean Dramas.. I basically speak the language now or understand it without subtitles. I basically dream about all the kdramas I watched or are watching and sometimes I find myself becoming a screen writer or director of a drama in order to come up with a good drama.. it's crazy. Through all the years of watching korean dramas, I felt that I was able to witness alot of different perspectives people have in life and it has changed my overall thinking of life. In addition, I have tried most of the korean foods that I have watched in the dramas such as the street foods and black bean noodles ahhh! (:

After watching Kdramas, my whole life changed.
I started learning korean and i help sub some korean dramas time permitting. My choice alcohol is soju and makgolli. I love eating ramyun and watching dramas. I started making more korean foods and going to local korean festivals to just get the feeling of pojangmachas.
I go to a local korean bakery and enjoy their baked goods and on a hot summer day have a patbingsoo.
Eventually among a few friends of mine, it has become a habit that whenever we finish our finals, we hit up a korean barbeque place and then later it the evening go crazy at a noraebang. My life has become very korean for an Indian girl that is.

pulling all nighters to watch dramas

Watching Kdrama has changed many aspects of my life. It opened up a world of great music, shows, and movies. This then changed certain goals I had in my life.

I now want to move to Korea and try having a career as an english teacher. Never before have I even thought about it before watch Kdramas. Now its all I want to do in my life. It seems like it would be a great experience.

I have also tried learning Korean. Which is really hard but like I said before it will help me later. Watching the shows and movies have actually helped a lot. I can understand basic sentences and words :)

It has also opened up a new culture to me. I now love Korean food (however, you guys know what spicy really means lol) and understand your culture much better. Which led to me taking classes about Korea in my university.

So it's safe to say that Kdrama has had a huge impact on my life and I am grateful that you guys have helped me learn more about it :)

Started learning Korean; timing and editing subbed vids so my mom can watch, and since my mom got into K-dramas she makes rolled eggs for breakfast all the time.

After downloading some OST's, I naturally drifted into obsessing over KPop and arguing with forum members about why Kim Hyung Joon deserved an award for his acting in Boys Over Flowers.

Forgive me.

But seriously, my KPop obsession is ridiculous now.

skoroma@media.ucla.edu

me? keke...
it's embarassing, somehow...
first of all, I don't drink alcohol, but the 'getting-shots-of-soju-while-pouring-your-heart-content-till-you-puke-scenes' (it's too long, isn't it? sorry for that) looks so appealing to me...
so, every time I want to tell my friends about anything, I prepare cans of soda, or coffee, or milk, and I waste myself on it while talking like a drunken female lead character (can't miss the 'kheeekkkk' sound after each shot)...
you never know that milk can get you drunk, don't you?

KPOP KPOP KPOP! Those kdramas sure know how to pick their OSTs! Kpop= idol groups= learning korean= korean food = i am broke

On an interesting note, I've conquered Korean language on my own after many years of Kdramas! So I guess I do gain something in expenses of my time~ and OH!! tears TT_TT
those sad sad dramas LOL