What Was the Very First Drama You Ever Watched (or the drama that started your addiction)?

Jan 2, 2022 08:32 pm

Tell us what drama got you hooked. Why/how did it happen? (optional)

Jan 2, 2022 08:45 pm

Go, Go Squid

2 yrs ago I was watching a Dimash video I Couldn't Leave and scenes from the Chinese drama Go, Go Squid were played. I tracked it down, watched it and 115 dramas later still very much addicted.

Saygo

Jan 2, 2022 09:23 pm

1st ever Asian Drama was Korean

It was either Itaewon Class or Stranger in early-mid 2020. I can't remember which was first between the two. I really liked Bae Doona in Sense8 and wanted to watch her in other stuff so Stranger was on my list for a long while before I took the plunge. ( When I watched Six Flying Dragons was when I was really sold i think)

1st C-Drama- The Untamed

Totoro

Jan 2, 2022 10:46 pm

Waterboys

James

Jan 3, 2022 04:58 am

Strong Woman Bong Soon. Wasn't my first ever drama, but was one of the first and is the drama that made me fall in love. I still consider it my favorite drama of all time!

hiphop123

Jan 3, 2022 06:34 am

It Boys Over Flowers in 2009.

My friend in high school (we were in anime club at the time) introduced me to it. Since I did like the manga and anime at the time, I decided to try and I was a goner. It was a hot mess even when I was first watching it, but the men... Ohhh! There was so much pretty and it was following the story well.

sjay

Jan 3, 2022 05:18 pm

My first ever Asian drama was "The K2" (Korean). I liked it and I was curious about Yoona since I really liked her voice in her Amazing grace part. Then I watched "Exit" and it just spiraled towards other shows and languages.

zalcu VIP

Jan 4, 2022 02:09 am

Technically, my introduction was with movies (Kaiji being my first) which I bought randomly at a store. Didn't check out the drama side at the time, but I was planning to. A few years later, I saw a .gif on Tumblr of Lee Hyunwoo looking like a caterpillar in a sleeping bag in To the Beautiful You and decided to search what it was and give it a go. 700+ dramas later, I'm stuck here, lmao.

aad

Jan 4, 2022 02:47 am

my first ever drama was taiwanese and it was called before we get married. i don't remember how I started it so I will say my first kdrama.

my first kdrama was true beauty.
my friend read the webtoon and suggested me to watch the drama and I watched it although I didn't pay attention that much since it was my first kdrama and I wasn't sure what's happening and anything.

but the drama that started my addiction was penthouse. i saw penthouse a lot on my tiktok and I thought I should watch it. at that time I wasn't picky if it was romance or not (I used to be later on but now I'm not), I didn't even care about the genres. i just started it and I ended up falling in love with the first 2 seasons so I started watching season 3 and officially started watching kdramas

Mon

Jan 4, 2022 02:56 am

Legend of the blue sea

rika

Jan 4, 2022 03:52 am

First ever Asian drama I ever watched was You're Beautiful but my drama addiction actually started from A Love So Beautiful and The Legend of the Blue Sea .

M-L

Jan 6, 2022 12:41 pm

As a teenager I was really into manga and started to watch some live action adaptations. I also watched some korean movies. Then I stopped for a really long time until I started to watch Age of Youth (which I actually never finished).

But I think the dramas that really got me into watching kdramas were Let's Eat and Reply 1994. I really like how most dramas are just one season instead of 3+ seasons like in western TV. I only started to really watch non-korean dramas 2021.

daydreaming

Jan 6, 2022 09:46 pm

I've seen a couple East Asian movies growing up but my first dramas were Shine or Go Crazy and W: Two Worlds (can't remember which one those I saw first) back in 2016 and they got me hooked!