female, 43, married to a wonderfully tolerant man, two daughters (11,14 who also dig drama and K-pop), of German and English descent, living near Philadelphia, PA, USA

My love of Korean stuff started with the food. Next came a visit to Korea, then Korean dramas, Korean friends, and Korean language lessons and K-pop. Yes, I am a 43 year old BigBang fan girl/fan ahjumma. It's been a natural progression over about 16 years.

Don't be embarrassed, rejoice! You are not alone!

I hope more people answer!

Married, female, 40 in the Chicago area. Of Asian Indian descent who got into Kdramas because I love all Asian cultures.

married, mum of 1, 35 yrs, isolated in one town of UK. Loving kdrama since 18yrs until now. Recent years away from kdrama since birth of my daughter, I've just come back to my joy this years.
Anyone come to UK for a meetup on kdrama?

I'm a single female, 16, from Singapore. I'm Chinese, and I can speak a little Korean, mostly what I've learnt from K-pop and K-dramas, haha... My ultimate K-actor bias is Lee Jong-suk <3

My mum also likes to watch K-dramas, and is a big fan of Rain and Lee Byung-hun. I am proud to say that I got her into Korean stuff, haha!

...am I the maknae here? Haha ^^

Aww, you shouldn't feel embarrassed!! I'm 27, south american, no one around me had ever watched a single minute of a kdrama until I tried with one and they were pretty cool about it.

Still, you like what you like, and everyone finds different stuff about kdramas that make them happy - for me, the format is super comfortable, I tend to lose interest with multi season shows unless they're really good, but the korean options are infinite. My experience and taste as a watcher have changed dramatically over the years, though.

So yeah, if you like the pretty boys and the fluff, go for it, you don't need excuses! :D

*this is why I don't like posting comments using my phone, it doesn't go in as a reply*

Female, 32 yrs old living in San Diego CA. My obsession actually started with a Taiwanese Drama – Meteor Garden, then I watched a few kdrama here and there (Winter Sonata, Autumn in my Heart…basically the melos). I liked it a lot but still watching mostly TW drama. Then one fateful evening my sister told me to watch Coffee Prince and I was a goner. That show got me hook, line, and sinker. It had me at the 1st cup. Now I’m pretty much obsessed with everything korean. From the dramas, to food, kpop, history, language…etc.

No embarrassment here in the Dramabeans community.

32, young single female in Houston area. Asian Indian. I enjoy the short (non-soap opera length) and sweet dramas and movies unlike the indian soap operas. More than anything the universality of themes- love, family, career, work-life balance, friendship....

Would love a virtual meetup...

I feel your pain. I live in Seattle, but I'm pretty sure if I showed up tomorrow, I'd be the oldest, whitest lady there. But I thought that about the BigBang concert in LA too, and I think maybe there were a few other ajhummas around.

I'm 47, white, married, and have a 15 year old Chinese daughter who keeps me up to speed on Asian pop culture. Or tries to, anyway.

41 divorced mom in Daytona Beach, Fl, of a 14 year old whom I credit/ blame on my addiction. She started looking up pokemon videos when younger, then vocaloids, then she asks me to hear this song - Shinee's lucifer (I've always listened to a worldwide eclectic mix of music). We liked that, so I researched them to make sure it was acceptable. Then I kept seeing these bof or bbf comments on YouTube. Looked that up, The End. I now have kimchi in my fridge.

I expect to be 99 and still watching! :)

I'm an Indonesian, a-very-recently-turned-twenty-two (on September 19th) female living in Jakarta, the country's capital city. K-pop has been around the corner since long time, since primary school if I'm not wrong. The closet-kpop fans are now out in the open though, and whenever I splurted out some Korean dramas or reality show, namely Running Man, there must be some people's ears perking up at the mention. You just know it right? After staying silent for a long period of time regarding your K-pop preferences, and now able to speak out openly, you'll notice if the people around you actually know Kpop or not. So don't worry, we're together in this addiction. The oh-so-pleasant addiction ;D

female fan, 22, from Lithuania (one of a kind, huh? Don't know Lithuanian who watch this in spite of my brother (I'm still trying to get him deeper, but his hobby is Japanese, sadly)).
I started from Spanish dramas, got into Taiwan and then somehow caught on Korean and Japanese dramas (I remember, I didn't like Korean language at all, at first I thought they have no emotions and all their sentences sound the same with emphasized endings, haha, I cannot believe what I was thinking then, heh, grhm, If this will be used against me, I'll deny it).
Still struggle with Korean names (I remember, remember, remember, and then drama ends and I forget), and I cannot remember when I got into dramas. I think I k-dramas gave me a selective amnesia k-drama style ;)

I'm a 35 yo mom from Brunei! I am hooked on anything Korean (drama, varieties, idols, technology, websites etc) and it started only a few years ago. I owed it to Lee Min Ho whom i first seen in Personal Taste. (i wasn't aware of how massively popular BOF). Thankfully my husband understands this 'crush' I have.

This K-addiction has also infected my 8 yo girl. We both love SNSD, Big Bang, Joo Won, bulgogi, Monday Couple and so much more!

I'm a 28-year-old Chinese female, living in Washington, also (currently) isolated in my drama love. I look forward to meeting those of you who will be showing up on Saturday!

I got into dramas when I first caught en episode of Here Comes Ajumma. A friend also showed me an episode of Playful Kiss (the drama sucked, but Kim Hyun-joong was cute). Around that time, SNSD's Gee was also around, and I've been sucked in ever since.

Oh, how fun! Thanks everyone for replying! :-)

Now I'm feeling impolite to have asked you who you are without telling anything about myself, so:
Swedish, ~40, single, been watching kdramas for about ten years or so on and off. I too have kimchi in my fridge now! :-D

And just to clarify, I don't JUST like kdramas for the "pretty boys" (although I do tend to like the funny/fluffy romcom type of dramas, so there are a lot of them in most of the stuff I watch ;-) ), it's just one thing which makes me feel my interest in kdramas is a bit... silly. Great to see other ajummas here then! (And if you only like the serious stuff, don't tell me! ;-) )

And Manin, fun to see a fellow scandinavian here! So there are two of us then... One of whom lives in China! :-D
Yeah, I don't see kdrama becoming mainstream around here anytime soon.

Our group in Chicago are different ages and only two were Korean. There are about 25 of us that have met up and we all come from different racial groups. When I say different ages I really mean different. I'm soon to be 65 but some of the girls are in their early twenties. We only had one man join us at our first meet up.

So far we have met up three times.

I'm 20 and my mom is in her early 50s and we both enjoy watching asian dramas together, one of the few things we share in common.

I remember watching a drama and my mom came and asked me what drama I was watching because she found the lead actor attractive haha. It's one of the few things she enjoys doing after a long tiring day at work (:

28, female, Filipino with Chinese descent living in AB, Canada. Got hooked to Korean dramas late. This addiction started when I curiously checked BOF online 6 years ago and it has been downhill from there. Before it started, never watched anything Asia related and only watched american shows. Now, I don't watch television at all and been a convert ever since. Have ventured to Japanese and Taiwanese from time to time but I still prefer Korean dramas (mostly because of the pretty boys, ;). Only my immediate family and a handful of friends know of this so called "strange affliction" of mine. Others, are totally oblivious of it. LOL Ventured to Kpop on and off through the years but was never serious about it. One day, will be traveling to S-Korea for sure for a vacay. They get mild winters/weather over there so i'll be a relief as to what we usually get over here. :)

Hi.. young single female,22 of age. Location:Chennai,India. Me too learning korean through dramas and I love it. To be frank, I tried to take up a class in learning it in my University but it was too difficult but then watching kDramas alone, I know moarrr korean,haha. Love. It. Hopefully there are some company for me too here in the community. This is my first time here and I wish I would be able to know moar about you guys. Thank You..

hmm

guess i should chime in tho i rarely comment...i found this site in 2009 and have been hooked ever since

currently living near DC

i wouldnt really go to a meetup because i'm a 27 year old guy and it would just feel weird to be (presumably) the only male

got no shame whatsoever about liking dramas. there is some great acting + writing in these shows and if a show is good it doesnt matter what language or culture made it: i'll watch

I'm 19, female going to school in Tucson AZ. There are a lot of Asian students at my school and I know a lot of anime lovers, but I think I'm the only K-drama fan in my circle of friends. It was actually my 50 year old mom who got me hooked this summer so we do mother-daughter bonding over the hotness/cuteness!

I'm 27 year old female native Kenyan living in Charlotte NC and about to celebrate 1 year marriage anniversary. I have grown up on a healthy diet of American, Mexican, South and West African, Bollywood and Filipino shows so I'm not averse to watching shows from cultures different from mine. Started watching K-dramas in 2009 but, sigh, I still haven't been able to infect my family

female, 20 years old, university student, from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and yes I'm single.

first watching k-drama through Endless Love when I'm in elementary school and I crying a lot. Then hooked by Goong/Princess Hours in my junior high school. And when I'm in senior high school, my closest friend contaminated me by K-pop: about Suju, DBSK, SNSD, etc. Fall in love with Dream High and much more since I found Dramabeans website. I visit everyday and I found myself enjoy about Korean stuff. And now, I become more open about how I love Korean drama. You know what, my friends always ask my recomendation about korean drama and movie. Haha. And they copy that drama and movie from my laptop. So now, I contaminated them :)

A 29 years old single 'girl' from Malaysia. My only connection to Korea is my love for TV when i was a teenager. :D im lucky to have kdrama 'support' in the form of my sister and omma. But.. we dont really have the same preferences in the type of drama. my mom love BOF(facepalm), Shining Inheritance, while i cringe through most of it. i like arang and the magistrate but my sister just dont get it! And vice versa for dramas they like but i cant even finish half the 1st episode. But from us three, im the most hardcore kdrama fan. :)

33, Female, Finland. Been watching Kdrama since 2007. My first show was Coffee Prince! Got into Korean drama through Taiwanese and Japanese dramas which I found on YouTube by accident. Have been watching Kdrama since then, and even got my mom to watch them. She is totally addicted now. She's 56. Have tried to make my friends and sister watch them, too, but they have been less enthusiastic... :)

True, no embarrassment here. Reminds me of this quote
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."”

Wow... totally mispelled obsessed and obsession, it's like I allergic to all those S's.

To add - 33, female, singaporean living in seattle

great to have met you, Ray! it was nice to have a few men in the mix. :)

as someone suggests above, we can link to pics even if we can't post them. now we just have to figure out where to link to. ^^

OMG did i dare not to mention Won Bin >_<