LOL... I don't celebrate Christmas but I do experience the holiday itself. But without snow (since I live in tropic country)
Christmas in dramaland indeed looks really romantic. And this post makes me miss Enrique Geum!!

Happy Holidays everyone! :D

For the past 6 years, I've been inviting friends over to spend the holidays with me...so that we could watch/rewatch all the good kdramas that aired that year.

I don't mind late recaps (I enjoy watching more if I read recaps after not before) so I hope you just enjoy time with your family/friends even if you're watching kdramas with them too like me.

Ahahaha I just can't help lol-ing at this:
"My parents pester me for months to
come, I do, and then Mom and Dad go off pursuing their own interests while I’m in my room doing nothing.
I think they just like knowing I’m stuck at home."
I thought only my mom does that...and all these years I thought what's the purpose of asking us to come when we never really spend time together?

Flower boy next door had just finish airing on local TV, now its Will it snow for Christmas (my Go Soo...), Dream High. All snowy dramas. And I'm living in a tropical country. I have experienced snow in the states, and all I remember was falling on the slippery sidewalk on my way to school lol

I don't think we're getting snow where I live before Christmas day. :( I work at the mall and I can see everyone doing their Christmas shopping and looking so happy enjoying their vacations while I'm working. Ugh, I guess I'll watch dramas again on Christmas this year. Me and my laptop, maybe some hot chocolate. Merry Christmas!

I've been meaning to ask this since forever.

Is there a special meaning to first snow of the year in korea? K dramas always seem to make a big deal of it and I always get that asked by my friends...

"Christmas without dramas? What are you, a barbarian?!" LOL!

Merry Christmas Javabeans and Girlfriday and the rest of the Dramabeans Team! Thank you so much for a year full of kdrama news and recaps!!! You're a blessing for someone like me who looove Korean Dramas (and Korean actors, hee) but could not understand Hangul except for some short phrases like "picho so?" :-)

Well, it's a sweltering Christmas here Down Under but I still decorate my room with Santas in parka and sleds. Uh, now I'm thinking this is all so weird. But I think it is quite odd to have a santa in shorts who may decide to shave off his beard because of the heat, don't you think? Eww, that's gross.

Christmas should have some semblance of snow, I mean it should be chilly because it's the time to find someone who'd keep you warm, or give you a swoony back hug like what you see in all these winter kdramas. But in temperatures like this wherein lipsticks melt into a hapless goo? Nah, that attracts absolute zero romance. I guess it's really weird living in the southern hemisphere...

But still, I feel Christmassy today as my family is coming to visit me here! With them is a new batch of Kdramas packed in an external drive! Awesome! But Pinocchio is only up until ep 12, Awe..no...!!!

Happy Holidays JB and GF!!

Where I live Christmas officially finish on the 7th of January so as you can see we have a very looong one. I don't mind Chritmas, although I don't really celebrate it, in my family New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are the important ones.

As for the dramas, I keep on my dramas not matter what the time of the year is but it's true that dramas do really well making snow seem really pretty and romantic, as we all have seen it in Pinocchio with PSH and LJS.

Anyway, Happy Holidays for all the dramabeans family!!!

Happy Holiday one and all , may Santa bring you every thing you wish for.

Mostly take the time to enjoy your family's.

i've been wondering about the romantic connect to christmas in korea as well. Apparently it's the same case in Japan, where christmas eve is a festival almost exclusively for couples. In both places christmas seems to be celebrated like valentines day, while valentines day itself has got attached to more material aspects- such as gifting chocolates.

I guess one reason could be that new gen non-christians who wish to relate to western culture or ideas have found a non-religious way to incorporate the festival into their lives, and I'm sure the market with its eye on lucrative sales had a role to play in popularizing it as well.

However that still doesn't explain why the festival got linked to romance in particular. So I hunted around for answers and got one that may somewhat explain the situation in japan at least:

"It was since Yuuming’s [singer Matsuyoya Yumi] song ‘My Lover Is Santa Clause’ that Christmas Eve became a day to spend with your lover. People became richer, […], hotels, who had their eye on this, offered loads of Christmas plans. […]. It was the natural flow of things that Christmas Eve then became thought of as a day you spend with your lover.’（IDii24さん）"
and
"it seems that even Yuuming’s song, that is played at this time every year, can be said to have played an important part in creating the image of Christmas as a time you spend with your lover."

So a question for those more familiar with S.Korea- was this song popular in S.Korea as well? Could the japanese take on the festival have influenced S.Korea? I'm assuming here (correct me if I'm wrong) that Japan was introduced to christmas before Korea, since Wikipedia says that the oldest christmas celebrated there is recorded as being in the Meiji period, and that the custom of spending Christmas Eve with the opposite sex had already become common by the early Showa period.

Me too, I am not much of a festive season person and therefore not ready for everyone else to be either. It just makes me feel extra sad. Where did the time go? Seems like I just woke up and it's december. I'm from Australia and it's summer atm. I wonder what's it's like to have a snowy Christmas in a cold city. Not that we celebrate Christmas much. I just want it to be over and done with so the we can go back to normal. No crazy queues at the shops, no people on a mission on the roads, no more talks about christmas.

I am in Wisconsin, USA with my honey to visit his family. Usually it snows here and I can tell you I do not find the cold romantic and there's a reason we moves to Georgua, USA where it rarely snows.

Hehe I actually just finished re-marathoning White Christmas since its that time of year. Because I'm weird like that, it actually gives me warm and fuzzy feelings. We need more dramas like that.

The merriest of Christmas to all beanies. Wherever you are take care. Peace, joy, health, happiness and all the goodness i wish for this world. And may everyday be a happy ending for you beanies. No grouchypants, you. Just go with the flow.