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Korean Dramas messin' with girls' heads...? - Page 2

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Noxie
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2227 Posts
February 09 2011 04:44 GMT
#21
Is american soap operas really that different from these?
DarkOptik
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
452 Posts
February 09 2011 05:09 GMT
#22
Perhaps not so, but the difference is that there's a much higher viewership rating of Kdramas than soaps in the U.S. The most popular dramas can have anywhere from a quarter to half of the country watching at the same time, while those numbers are impossible to reach even for very popular primetime TV shows in the U.S.
awkwardZone
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States17 Posts
February 09 2011 05:17 GMT
#23
What dramas are to Korean girls, Twilight is to a shit ton of American girls. They're all into vampires now!
NeverGG *
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom5399 Posts
February 09 2011 05:28 GMT
#24
I hate them with a quiet, but all consuming passion (and I'm female in case anyone still doesn't know.) They're part of the reason I stopped watching Korean television in the first place. Especially the really sappy ones with stupid slapstick and/or female leads who are so incompetant that if they were real people they'd probably die just from walking down the street.

I also really dislike those kinds of 'harem' dramas where it's one girl, or one guy whom everyone falls for - even if it completely contradicts any logical character development or their personality in the show. That's just so puke-inducingly predictable.

I also hate western romantic/rom-com movies/dramas though. It's just such a boring genre to me, but some of the Kdramas I've tried have really encompassed everything that makes me want to switch off the television immediately. Give me a good horror/thriller/mystery movie/drama any day.

Thankfully, they're easy to avoid. (It was fun to be an extra in Secret Garden and Marry me Mary though.)
우리 행운의 모양은 여러개지만 행복의 모양은 하나
_romantic
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States455 Posts
February 09 2011 05:44 GMT
#25
Actually it's good--think about it this way

Assume you don't understand how to get a girl to like you, because a girl herself doesn't know what's "right" for a relationship. (true, most women are confused)

Then she watches a k-drama and it's like *bam* no digestion whatsoever she just accepts the drama as truth

Now you know what you have to do. All you have to do is watch half the drama (the part prior to the inevitable terminal illness) and you have like maphack on her brain. You can see exactly how she will react to every given situation.

Dramas create a common language for men and women to understand and date each other. They fulfill the same purpose as stone age fertility rituals.

And before you complain that these rituals set up stupid expectations of you, consider that they encourage you to be tender, kind, and considerate of the girl. Isn't that so much better than other reproductive memes, like, for example, the whole ideal of chivalric male honor, which once resulted in over two thousand dueling casualties in the United States South each year? I'd sure as hell take buying flowers to keep a girl over having to pistol whip or shoot some other dude over a perceived insult in order to keep my male honor intact
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RezChi
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2368 Posts
February 09 2011 05:52 GMT
#26
That video made me lol, my mom does the same thing sadly... (crying over korean drama)
Zidane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1689 Posts
February 09 2011 06:08 GMT
#27
My gf likes watching asian dramas also, although mostly Japanese ones.
Even so, she still puts up with me. I dress really dorky, play starcraft or MMOs most of the time, watch anime and manga, am not remotely romantic or spontaneous, have no money, own a shitty car, and never do anything new with her. >_<
lucky me lol
jjun212
Profile Joined December 2004
Canada2208 Posts
February 09 2011 06:55 GMT
#28
On February 09 2011 12:40 LosingID8 wrote:


omg, ahahaha

thanks so much for posting this. i'm definitely sending this to my friends who watch Kdramas..

this was hilarious..
buickskylark
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada664 Posts
February 09 2011 07:22 GMT
#29
it's kind of shocking how easily people are manipulated when you think about it. All Kdramas follow a formula, and while the viewer knows this, can't help but get sucked in anyway. Makes you wonder if we have any ounce of will power and consciousness.
Kalingingsong
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada633 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-09 07:32:58
February 09 2011 07:32 GMT
#30
romance dramas to girls are like sci-fi drama to guys.

except its easier to know that warp drives are made up... that's the problem.
Dess.JadeFalcon
kOre
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada3642 Posts
February 09 2011 07:52 GMT
#31
Is that you recording the video lololol if it is, so mean ahahaha
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Trap
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States395 Posts
February 09 2011 08:03 GMT
#32
On February 09 2011 14:44 l0st_romantic wrote:
Actually it's good--think about it this way

Assume you don't understand how to get a girl to like you, because a girl herself doesn't know what's "right" for a relationship. (true, most women are confused)

Then she watches a k-drama and it's like *bam* no digestion whatsoever she just accepts the drama as truth

Now you know what you have to do. All you have to do is watch half the drama (the part prior to the inevitable terminal illness) and you have like maphack on her brain. You can see exactly how she will react to every given situation.

Dramas create a common language for men and women to understand and date each other. They fulfill the same purpose as stone age fertility rituals.

And before you complain that these rituals set up stupid expectations of you, consider that they encourage you to be tender, kind, and considerate of the girl. Isn't that so much better than other reproductive memes, like, for example, the whole ideal of chivalric male honor, which once resulted in over two thousand dueling casualties in the United States South each year? I'd sure as hell take buying flowers to keep a girl over having to pistol whip or shoot some other dude over a perceived insult in order to keep my male honor intact


As a red-blooded man, I would rather lose my life in a duel than watch half a K-drama. No woman is worth that.
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igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-09 08:24:53
February 09 2011 08:23 GMT
#33
Since I watch American tv/movies, I expect girls to be 5'10" or above, at least be C cups, have perfect hair, and be toned like a long distance runner.

Edit: and be funny and interesting and not have terrible personalities, I forgot about personalities.
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
February 09 2011 11:21 GMT
#34
simply girls talking about girl things in their own context

for you to question them, or yourself because of this is L O L
why so 진지해?
Tazza
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Korea (South)1678 Posts
February 09 2011 11:26 GMT
#35
I know what you're talking about. I was a guy, and I used to be obsessed with these dramas. I really couldn't differentiate between real life and dramas. But now, I don't watch any, only ones that I really want to watch. It is really easy to become addicted. And yeah, the girls in Korea nowadays all think their some kind of princesses
Haemonculus
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States6980 Posts
February 09 2011 15:44 GMT
#36
It's a nice fantasy, relax. Who doesn't want to lose themselves now and then in a make-believe world? I'm sure there are some people out there who can't differentiate between television and reality, but they're few and far between... unless I'm seriously overestimating humanity.

Two tall, rich, well educated, hot men fighting over me and coming up with elaborate romantic trips to try to win me over? Yeah that'd be nice. Likely to ever happen? Nope.

That being said, I've never watched any of these Kdramas, so maybe I'm not really sure what they're like.
I admire your commitment to being *very* oily
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32083 Posts
February 09 2011 15:51 GMT
#37
On February 09 2011 20:21 Rekrul wrote:
simply girls talking about girl things in their own context

for you to question them, or yourself because of this is L O L


pretty much

On February 10 2011 00:44 Haemonculus wrote:
I'm sure there are some people out there who can't differentiate between television and reality, but they're few and far between... unless I'm seriously overestimating humanity.


you'd think... but sometimes, I just don't know

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doubleupgradeobbies!
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Australia1187 Posts
February 09 2011 17:16 GMT
#38
On February 09 2011 20:26 Tazza wrote:
I know what you're talking about. I was a guy, and...



Wait What? There has got to be an interesting story behind this.
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Sayle
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom3685 Posts
February 09 2011 17:26 GMT
#39
On February 10 2011 02:16 doubleupgradeobbies! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 09 2011 20:26 Tazza wrote:
I know what you're talking about. I was a guy, and...



Wait What? There has got to be an interesting story behind this.


Guys have feelings too ya know :3
JIJIyO
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1957 Posts
February 09 2011 17:51 GMT
#40
On February 10 2011 02:26 Sayle wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 10 2011 02:16 doubleupgradeobbies! wrote:
On February 09 2011 20:26 Tazza wrote:
I know what you're talking about. I was a guy, and...



Wait What? There has got to be an interesting story behind this.


Guys have feelings too ya know :3

Was a guy.........

A new kdrama in the making?
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