Ten years already?! Where has the time gone? Saying THANK YOU for Dramabeans doesn't seem like enough. The DB staff has been my lifeline to all things K-drama. Your site was my gateway to visiting other sites, listening to K-pop, enjoying Korean food, and even visiting Seoul a couple years ago. (Of course I went to the top of Namsan Tower to see the love locks!)

Dear Javabeans, Girlfriday, and DB minions - Happy New Year, happy 10th anniversary, and many happy returns!

That unnamable moment when you'd like to think you're young and wild but then realize you've been watching dramas for the past eleven years and remember that you're really just an old ajumma.......... -.-;

Wow! 10 years is nothing to sniff at. Happy anniversary! Congratulations dramabeans. Altho i am mostly a lurker, your hardwork is wholly appreciated drambeans team. Wish i could attend but i am half a world away in Nigeria but will be wit u guys in spirit. Sending all my best wishes n to many many more years to come. Cheers!❤

Happy 10th Anniversary,

Thanks for all the hardwork. I have been watching kdramas for 5 years now but only found out about this site last year. It has been a blast to comment and meet other people going on the roller coaster ride that is watching currently airing dramas. Keep up the good work and hope we all have an amazing 2017!

Your site has helped me choose many dramas that I might now have, skip some before wasting the hours, skip a few episodes to get into the exciting part of a drama, and relive some great episodes without spending more time in front of the tv. Very important site for Kdrama fans. Thanks.

Congratulations!!! Happy 10th! I hope you do 10, 20, or better yet 50 years more. haha.

I'm sad I can't attend, but I hope it's a great get together. Will you be having another celebratory event this year? I'd like to get a chance to meet up with all the Beanies.

Congratulation on your 10th anniversary, DB. I found you the first time because I need a closure for drama that I just couldn't watch anymore. And then I strted reading all your other posts, and eventually even left comments. This is like the only place I have to gush about drama and dissect it without being judged.

I wish I live near LA so I could attend, but since I'm half the world away, I wish you all a great party. Here is hoping for more awesome years together with DB and beanies.

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary! I haven't been a kdrama fan since that long (around 3 or 4 years) but I love your page and comments on the dramas :D I hope there are many more years of dramabeans to come <3 <3

Congratulations! I'm so glad I found this site when I discovered the joy of K Drama. :-) Y'all do a wonderful job and have brought together a lovely online community. Thank you! Kamsamnida.

Congratulations! Thank you for hosting this fab community! Who needs "work" when you have this happy place. More years and dramas to come. You complete the art that is kdramas.

Wow. First of all, congratulations. I only ever found this site by chance, but the recap formatting is so addictive I just HAD to come back for more.

Also, since I do not speak Korean, I sometimes find things lost in translations when subs come out, so I always find myself checking DB for recaps so I do not miss a single annotation or emotion. Thank you for that. <3

I also absolutely love how this is such a positive community. As a native tumblr-ite, I'm kind of used to fandom wars and meanies being mean, but this is such a loveable, accepting communities. I often find myself reading comments and I love how wach of them is informative, sweet and full of inherent excitement for the drama being recapped. Such a refreshing alteration.

I absolutely adore this website. Thank you for taking the time to always be here Javabeans and Staff. You guys are awesomesauce.

Lastly, it is kind of my dream for one day write for DB - My love for writing and kdrama's is kind of infinite, so maybe one day I'll apply for the job. ;)

Lastly, the glowing success of this site just goes to show that time may be tangible, but K-drama love is forever. Cheers to the DB team; Javabeans and Girlfriday and the rest.

Congrats, javabeans, girlfriday, and crew for ten years of celebrating Korean dramas. It's been a pleasure watching the site and readership grow and even contributing for a short time. I hope for even bigger and brighter things in the next ten for you.

Happy 10th anniversary!
Thanks you for creating this amazing space. Not even exaggerating when I say I check DB like every few hours. so idk what life would be like if I couldn't read all the thoughtful and funny comments from all the DB staffs and beanies.
A bit sad that I can't attend cause I'm in UK ☹️ But for everyone who can attend, I hope you guys have a great time! ??

Badass! Props on growing the site and becoming, really, the go-to hub for all things Kdrama! I've discovered so many shows because of you guys and, on top of it, your recaps have added so much nuance and cultural flavor to the viewing experience for a non-Korean gringo like myself. I love that you add that extra layer for me!

Cheers and here's looking forwarded to the Subway-esque Dramabeans tshirts for 2017. Make it happen. I'll buy.

Thank you for everything you did these past 10 years, and happy new year to all the DB staff and all the beanies ! I am more a lurker than a commenter (actually the only time I wrote some comments was for Healer, because I couldn't keep the excitement for myself), but when I saw this post, I really wanted to tell you that by continuously maintaining this site and being yourselves, a lot of lurkers like me feel happy and understood.
I actually started following you because of To The Beautiful You, which was so horrible (in my opinion of course) that I couldn't watch it anymore, but I really wanted to know the end. Then I just stumbled across your site (and the recaps), and I stayed. I would have loved to come and meet fellow drama fans, but France is a bit far away ^^'
Thanks again, and please just continue what you do, it's just awesome :)

I can't believe it has been 10 years! I don't know when I started following... but it has been a looong, loooong time. I love your recaps, and other various posts because you guys put your own two cents in there. Regardless whether I agree or disagree, it gets a conversation going and make the entire website feel more personal.

Thank you for doing this!

Although I didn't start commenting until last year ... but I remembered my visits to dramabeans exploding around 2014. I do remembered reading one recap during the broadcast of Secret Garden and I think it was the last episode lol so my first dramabeans visit may have been during 2011 but who knows ^.^
Anyhow congratulations on 10th year anniversary and wishing this year would be great with many dramas and wishing the dramabeans family good health!
As for the meetup, one day I will definitely join you guys :D and hoping there are future meetups this year.

congratz Dramabeans. I'm coming to this sites since you're beautiful days. how times has change my taste in drama though. You're beutiful will have aplce in my hert because it's. drama who makes me wake crom korean drama hiatus and start following JB

Congratulations on 10 years!

I've been coming to this site religiously since I first fell into dramas 5 years ago. This is far and away my favorite spot on the web. Thank you for being such a wonderful portal into dramaland. If dropping everything and flying clear across the country was something I could realistically do, I would be there in a heartbeat. But alas...reality. Have a wonderful party! You deserve it!

Congrats! I really feel like celebrating with you!

I started watching dramas around the time dramabeans was founded and I discovered the site right from the beginning and have been keeping up with it.

Now 10 years and hundreds of dramas later here I am, still with you.

Happy 10th Anniversary Dramabeans!!!

Thank you for the years of recaps and reviews. Thank you especially for the insight and explanation of Korean culture, idiosyncrasies, customs, folklore, taboos, beliefs, superstition which have greatly enhanced the drama watching experience.

Failing which one would never have understood the many subtleties of the magical word 'Oppa' nor the magnitude of the OTP or the Tropes of Kdrama life nor the inexplicable traffic rules of Korea (beware any form of road crossing!) and the inexhaustible TOD.

Thank you Javabeans for the beginning and DB staff et al for the continuation.

I've been watching dramas since 2007 (haha, Freshman year in college, introvert, love of international movies and anime, then J-pop... yeah, I was bound to end up being a drama addict)! Found this site because of, well, can't recall if Dal Ja's Spring or You're Beautiful in 2009 is to blame, but I've been a regular ever since. I still remember the days of mysoju.com and dramacrazy.net hoping subs will get loaded. Haha, desperation of the times.

Congrats at being at it for so long. Someday I hope to find myself doing what I love for a living too. Happy 10 years to DB and all the Beanies that helped give this site even more life.

Happy 10th birthday Dramabeans.com! I remember always reading and looking forward to javabeans' recaps in the Fantasy Couple thread in soompi. Can't believe those posts have evolved into a kdrama institution. Congratulations!

CONGRATULATIONS!!
Although I have been a lurker I've been with you since 2007 and look you up everyday sometimes more than once a day. My addiction has always included dramabeans! Thank you for your dedication addiction relief and here's to another 10 years !

Happy 10th and now the 11th year. Truly thankful thats theres this space on internet for kdrama, recaps, news and discussion. It's the site i check daily and regularly for many years.
For those who are able to attend the partay.. have fun.
Looking forward to new look, new things from db staff.

Happy 10th Anniversary!

I have been a lurker on this site since Javabeans was still on wordpress and was recapping Que Sera Sera. Was that 2007? I rarely (almost never) comment but I am stepping out of my lurking mode to say a small thank you to Javabeans for creating this awesome community for those of us who love watching Korean dramas. I cannot believe I have been reading this site as part of my routine for 10 years!!! (Where does the time go?!) Thank you Girlfriday and the rest of the contributors/writers for joining the team and making this site even more awesome. I also love reading the comments from other beanies because it makes me feel better that I am not alone in this k-drama-watching addiction. The comments are always fun to read :)

Here's to 10 more years!

Congratulations guys! <3

Happy 10th anniversary, Dramabeans.

This is my 7th year following your site. Thank you for all your post in here, i love to read it since i, mother with four children, cannot always watch the drama. By reading your recaps, i'm so happy and grateful. I always checking on your site regularly everyday, it's amazing how you all maintain this site updated.

Even we never meet in person, i feel like knowing you for so long. So sorry cannot attend to the upcoming event, i wish you all have a good time and tons of fun there.

Love you all DB teams and fans for all cherish and tears we shared all this time through this site, i hope for more ten years to come and other and other ?

Congratulations Javabeans and Girlfriday! Here is hoping for many more such anniversaries :)

I have sometimes actually gone back to each of your (read: every recappers') first few posts to see how you guys have changed over time (Yes, I do have that much free time. Not. But sometimes curiosity kills me.)

I just want to thank you guys for providing us with such an awesome platform to meet similar minds from across the world! You guys have sometimes helped me go through tough times without even realising it. A big shout-out to my favourite recappers- Saya and Lollypip!

And I envy you guys who get to meet and have fun! Being in India, it's almost unthinkable to cross half the world to meet you all, but I so wish I could!

Happy anniversary! Would love to come, but that weekend is already taken. Thank you for all your hard work!

I thought this site was older than 10..I think I first stumble on DB, perhaps early 2008/ late 2007. I'm a casual drama fan but if I'm obsess with a drama (at least once a year).. I go to DB for more info.