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[oyceter]

I'm doing (yet another) presentation on kdramas for Korean class and was wondering off I could get anecdotes from people.

Frex, have you heard of kdramas? What are your general impressions? What kinds do you like? What have you seen?

Also, what vocabulary have you learned? Are you Korean? Are kdramas popular in the country you're from?

I won't individually identify people in my presentation, but I'll probably summarize
and paraphrase things in Korean.

Also also, please feel free to pass this around as much as possible!

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[aldanise]

Here via anenko's post in drama_llamas, if you don't mind my butting in.

Have you heard of kdramas?
Yes. I started off introduced by a friend to jdramas (we're both Japanese lang/lit majors), and I went looking for recs sites. I found dramabeans and rainscene, which sucked me into kdramas, too.

What are your general impressions? What kinds do you like? What have you seen?
I've been told I'm "doing it wrong", but I tend to watch primarily cop dramas (Kang Jeok Deul, Time Between Dog and Wolf), though I'm also working on Coffee Prince and Legend, because they came highly recommended. It's been my impression that kdramas have more kickass female characters than jdramas, though I'm not sure how accurate that is on mature, considered, numerical reflection. Family and the significance thereof has sneaked into everything I've watched so far, more so than I've found with either jdramas or twdramas. Shipper wars are fairly common, especially when the OTP isn't made clear early on (KJD fannish reactions scarred me). Umm. Always depression and tears at some point near the end, even if the last episode may or may not turn it around. Can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

What vocabulary have you learned? Are you Korean?
Vocabulary: family words only. Plus the sound of formal verb endings. I have the feeling I'd be learning more if I had any kind of base in Korean, but I don't. And I'm not Korean.

Are kdramas popular in the country you're from?
So far as I know, kdramas are not popular in the USA, but I could be wrong.

Hope I'm not too late to be useful!

[aldanise]

Er. I should add that I'm East Coast USA, which may have an effect on popularity.