I started watching Asian dramas in summer 2017 by coincidence.
I was astonished to see my daughter watching a Chinese drama series on Netflix with English undertitles, since she did not really enjoy her English lessons at school and even though I was born in England, I could never motivate her to speak with me in this language. So that took me by surprise and I started watching with her "Meteor Garden". Since then I have entered the world of Asian movies and dramas and am hooked until today and shall be so in the future.
Now I watch in order of preference:
- Japanese
- Korean
- Chinese
- Taiwan
- Thai
dramas and movies.
I enjoy romantic, comedic, thrilling, supernatural, action-orientated and historical themes and also to my own astonishment BL and LGBTQ themed dramas and movies. I am not so much into horror, but I have also watched some of those.
Since starting on Asian dramas, web-series, movies etc. I have also started diving into the music scene. I even went to a concert in Paris (Stade-du-France) and enjoyed a BTS concert with my daughter in 2019. She now calls me an Army noona ;)))
I am glad and happy that I have discovered the Asian film and music industry (also the culture in all facettes) in my fifth decade on Earth ;)
Also thank you to all the subbers out there, that make it possible for me to watch and understand all these lovely, enticing, entertaining products of Asian Dramaland!!
Just a while ago I have started learning Japanese and enjoy doing it so far.