Addiction
Fandom is a way of changing, more like many activities such as reading books, eating, and singing, dancing, cooking, and watching TV and the like fandom is a usual activity for a fan. In recent years, Korean wave becomes the new cultural trend in the Philippines. It leaves a great impact to every viewers especially to students. Impacts that may lead them to a wider world, the Korean drama world, where a person is into Korean Drama. "Filipinos love drama and stories that we can relate to. Most of the time, the Korean dramas are quite escapist and moving. Aside from the touching plotlines, the production is really a visual experience of places that most of us are not accustomed to seeing,” (Abacan, 2009). Korean drama lovers admit that “k-drama is life”, they can’t last a day without watching at least one episode nor skipping any k-drama without watching it. A behavior that is normal to them yet they can’t notice not just the changes but also the expenses of it. The reasons behind the students are being hooked to Korean dramas are because Korean dramas are full of entertainment, with dramatic plots adorable and handsome male actors, both main and supporting, and have always a pretty leading ladies(tapulgo,2012), beautiful soundtracks (ost) and interesting stories that will turn your world upside down. Watching Korean drama also involves adoption. Students may adopt Korean culture, Hangeul, cuisines, fashions and styles (Diffusion of Culture, Rogers, 2003). Due to this adoption, some of the k-drama lovers might experience discrimination because of ignoring their own culture. Though for them, k-drama does not bring bad influence, instead, they used it as an inspiration in accomplishing their responsibilities. Inevitably, k-dramas are uncontrollable on spreading all over the country and influencing Filipinos. Even young or young at heart were really hooked to it. Korean drama serves as an entertainment, for fun and pleasure but sometimes it can bring effects to those who watch it unstoppably. Words used in this article. **Addiction** – great interest in something. A strong and harmful need to regularly have something. **Adoption** - An instance of adopting something such as an idea, name or attitude. The action or fact of adopting or being adopted. **Fandom** – state or attitude of being a fan. **Hangeul** – Korean language. The alphabetic script in which Korean is written. **Korean Drama** – a televised dramas in Korean language, made in South Korea. **Korean Wave** - refers to the cultural phenomenon in which people in the world are willing to adopt and consume Korean popular culture. Sudden surge in the popularity of Korean culture **OST (original soundtracks)** – Theme songs of Korean drama. Recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game Hello everyone! Hope yall doing great! I’ll be publishing soon some of the effects of Korean dramas. This study focuses only to Korean drama effects but the effects might also appear to any scenarios so you can check up on it. Stay tuned. Thank you to **@Ashma** who continue to encourage me to do more articles and also I'm glad and greatful to join **"Get Sponsored !!"** community. https://read.cash/@Ashma https://read.cash/c/get-sponsored-2a0b as I kept saying, the idea of this community is to sponsor quality content creators & reward community members for their activities. And I am inviting you to join our growing community! For more information, refer to this link **https://read.cash/c/get-sponsored-2a0b** Join if you want to **"Get Sponsored !!"** https://read.cash/c/get-sponsored-2a0b
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The culture of koreans are rich and influential, nothing is wrong with admiring other's culture, but it's a different story if we start to neglect ours.
I agree with you, we must not forget to support our own❤
These types of fandom are prone to bashers online. 'Patriotic filipinos' wannabe usually hate these fandom because they say it neglects our tradition and culture which is not. We're just admiring the others.
Yeah. Actually this is our research study when i was in senior high, i just wanna share this to many people for awareness
I felt nostalgic while reading this. I remember back in college I'm also addicted to watching korean dramas that I even neglect some of the school works just to watch dramas, there are times that I don't go to school for about a week just to watch dramas ( I must say that's a real addiction lol) Among our class, it's just me and a friend who's fond of watching these dramas and we we're 'bashed' by some of them because of that, but it's absurd that eventually most of our classmates we're asking for copies. Thankfully, when I started working I'm able to breakthrough that addiction and now I only watch it during my free time 😊
Hahaha. I never try not attending school jut to watch kdrama. But i do watvh in our school so i guess its just the same. Well its good to know that you stop that habit of yours and do that when you have a free time. Keep it up
Addiction, when we heard this word at first our mind think a word that is "drug addicted".It's a bad Addiction for whole word.But also some peoples are addicted with books,songs,foods etc. It's depends on people... Thank you @Yayaya13 for sharing with us such aa informative article..
Always welcome dear. Ready to help😊
Any time dear,,
When you are into K-drama then you read this article... guilty ☺️.
Hahahha i am guilty too while writing this.
I am guilty with KDrama. I almost slept at 2am just to finished 3 episodes
Cool
Thank youuu dear😊
If I could recall perfectly, during thebirthday of popular Korean actor, "lee Min Ho", I almost laughed put my heart because of the way girls that haven't even met him in real life were proposing to him online and saying all kinds of romantic things to him like they have had some kind of romantic relationship prior to that event. it was amazing. That is what addiction can cause.
Yeah. I agree with you, but i hope this article wont find any hate towards them,its an article to acknowledge the changes in them that they didnt noticed at all