I guess many addicts like me would say:
1) so many handsome (flower or non flower) boys and man
2) funny and heart tugging stories
I was no a big movie/drama watcher, the most i used to watch was the weekly Macgyver series, CSI, NCSI, Criminal Minds, so on. Even when I used to watch korean dramas those days (winter sonata, autumn in my heart) I never really got addicted. So, why today I am labelled as a korean drama addict?
I don't think it's merely the actors or the story itself, it's more than that, it is what connects with me. What feels like it has everything to do with me. The truth I don watch all korean dramas, but just a selectively few ones that I watch repetitiously. in fact, the first drama I ever got addicted to was not a korean drama, it was a latin drama "yo soy betty la fea". It was one drama that hit very close to home. At that age, suffering from low esteem, I felt like Betty, the ugly one, everyday I had to sit and watch her grow, watch her pain, because most of the times I felt like that. With Betty, I had hope perhaps one day someone would love me for who I am and not what I look like.
Then, there was a gap where I hardly got addicted to anything. Until, one day when I turned 24, I watched "coffee prince". Again, the theme was about the same, it gave me hope. But I grew wiser, I knew that happy endings only happen in books and movies and dramas, not in real life. So, I just watched because the actors and the actresses did an excellent job at acting.
At 25, when I suffered from loneliness, and a period of so much confusion, heartache, pain, and so much of the unknown, I become officially addicted to korean dramas. They were the ones who got rid of my misery and unhappiness. I watched for hours and hours, with my pillow and blanket, a bowl of noodles, a cup of milo, a tin of biscuits, locked up in my room, watching and rewatching the dramas that made me laugh, again and again. There is one in particular, " You're beautiful", a sensational hit around the world, that really captured me, just because that was when i was truly lost and in pain. I hid myself into their world, a world where there was Hwang taeKyung, and I only. Until today, I still have to thank Jang Geun Suk-shi for that time, because i would have collapsed without him (of course, there were my friends and family as well). But my point is that the drama became my fantasy land, whenever I had problems, issues, all i needed to do was to switch on my laptop and watch those I love. Immediately, I was transported into a world without pain, without hurt.
These days, I still watch k-dramas, not as addicted as I was last two years, but I choose what I watch, only watching those that are funny and interesting. I still wait for the latest episodes to be uploaded, watching with chinese subs first, then with english subs. But no where near to the craziness i felt two years ago.
So, will I ever leave K-dramas to themselves and spend more quality time with people I love? I guess not, btw, i only spend like 16hours (not even a day) watching the whole drama!!!
