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KiaWilliams

Hey guys! 

   Its a little difficult for those of us who are new to lakorns or are trying to find websites to download/stream the episodes. Here on my blog I've put together a guide that will life much easier for you. I have included popular terms, lakorn themes, and popular places to find Thai dramas. I even included a few recommendations for those who are looking to get into Thai dramas but don't know where to start. 

Hope this helps you! Click Here!

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Yuanwei Volunteer Staff
You could try and turn this into an article if you want :D 
This way more people will read it and even though we can't put the links to the streaming sites, we can just put a link to your page.
Let me know if you are interested. 
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KiaWilliams
Thanks the advice! I'll go ahead and make some adjustments!
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Yuanwei Volunteer Staff
I'll be waiting for your article. :D
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Silver_Sylphy
Agreed.
Also MDL needs more articles on T-Dramas.
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Zig
Hi. That is a great article, and pretty accurate coming from someone who's not Thai. I'm so glad people are writing about Thai dramas (but I'm a Thai guy who prefers Korean dramas. In my country, they call people like me "selling off home country" LOL -- it's a joke I hope you understand, but hey for some conservative people this is a serious issue as well) Anywayy, some things I wanna say:

1. Leading actress is not Nong'ek but Nang'ek
2. The common plot lines - ON. POINT. Standing ovation.
3. Lakorns are actually a term to use only with dramas that air on national TV networks (Channel 3, 5, 7 with a side of Channel 9 who is now becoming semi-cable network). Those are such as Leh Ratee, Dao Kiang Duen, from the ones you mentioned. 
4. The other ones that you mentioned, such as Diary of Tootsies, U-Prince, Ugly Duckling, are called "series" and they're the product of cabel TV networks (GMM, One, GDH, Channel 8, etc.)

You can refer to my comment in this thread: http://mydramalist.com/discussions/thai-dramas-lak...

I read your other articles on your blog. This one is also great: http://lovekoreana.com/thai-drama-cliches/

For this article http://lovekoreana.com/favorite-thai-actors/ I'm surprised you know Golf! He's really famous as a celebrity and a singer, but he's not famous as an actor. Boy Pakorn, Nadech, Mark Prin are so famous along with James Jirayu and James Ma. These five are the Channel 3 top stars, mostly because they appear as "Pra-ek" (lead male characters) every. single. day. They can be leads in up to 4 lakorns that air in the same period of time. And some of them starred together in the Gentleman of Jutathep (these "Khun Chai" ones: http://mydramalist.com/10020-khun-chai-taratorn)

I wish you write about actresses too. ^^
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Yuanwei Volunteer Staff
@Zig ofc we know Golf as an actor since we know his brother Mike :)))

funny story: back when I got into Japanese music, I also got into Golf & Mike's songs. I seriously thought they were Japanese for a while =)) until I found some of their songs in Thai and looked more about them. So somehow they are the ones that brought me into Thai dramas and movies.

But another funny story, it's that my first Thai drama had none of them but it had Bie http://mydramalist.com/people/7387-wisetkaew-sukri... and the drama was Dok Ruk RIm Tang http://mydramalist.com/9965-dok-ruk-rim-tang which I watched while it was airing back in 2010. :D

btw, Zig, have you thought about writing some (short) articles for MDL about Thai dramas and movies whenever you have time? It will be great for more users to read about a Thai person's opinion on the dramas/movies they like. Since you live there and have more background information about the culture, language, etc. Just an idea. ^~^
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