[Drama Chat] Your gateway drama

101 May 1, 2022August 25, 2022

by missvictrix

We’ve talked about it before, but it’s been a hot second, and there are also a lot of newer Beanies that probably haven’t had a chance to devour our favorite topic yet: gateway dramas.

Everyone’s got one, because getting “into” K-dramas isn’t the same as entering any other fandom, really. I’ve shared my own gateway story in the past, but I never get tired of hearing other people tell theirs.

One day, someone will aggregate this data and be able to predict the “gateway factor” of a K-drama, and the aspects of it that act like glue on its audience. Was is the terrible perm, plot, music, and platter of tropes? (I’m looking at you Boys Before Flowers). Or was it the feeling that you’d just stumbled upon something wonderful, that would give back in joy what you put in in hours? Maybe it was both.

What’s your gateway drama? What sent you plunging down the rabbit hole into dramaland? How hard did you fall?

Let the chatting begin!

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51 ar_arguably romantic

May 15, 2022 at 5:54 PM

For kdramas - it's Full House...though I did see the first episode of My Love Patzzi (Jang Nara) and wasn't able to get my hands on the rest. I thought about going back to watch it in full, but I'm not sure if the 2002 tropes would age well.

Full House was the first one where I watched in full, and I think I watched it less than a year after it aired. I was already listening to Rain, so him being in it also intrigued me. And then of course, the story was addictive along with the OST. After that, it was Taste Sweet Love/Snow White, Delightful Girl Chunhyang,18 v. 29, My Girl, My Name is Kim Samsoon..