When it all started ....

So, as you all aware, I have watched a lot of Asian dramas. But when did this “addiction” started? Well, I would say about the time I started to watch Glass Slipper (a 2002 Korean drama). It was a drama about 2 sisters who lost both their mother at an early age and lost their father recently. To support them, their grand dad offered to look after them. However, on their way to meet up with their grand dad, the younger sister gets lost in a crowd of people and her older sister starts to look for her when she realised her sister was missing. Under known to her older sister, the younger sister was hit by a car. The guy who hit her, took her home to his poor family who was about to move out. When the younger sister had woken up, the family realises that she had amnesia so they decided to look after her until she could remember who she was. Mean while, her older sister and grand dad starts looking for her and the older sister swore that she will find her sister. This is after 10 years, when the older sister is working for her grand dad’s company and the younger sister working various job to support her adopted family. It is towards the end when they finally find each other.

Another drama that I love is Stairway to Heaven (a 2003 Korean drama). It’s similar to Glass Slipper with a girl with amnesia but it also about two people (a boy and a girl) who has been friends since they were kids and slowly started to fall for each other as they grow up. The ending of this drama is quite sad because one guy dies because he loves her and she dies because of the accident causing her amnesia and eventually an illness.

Another drama which I recently have watched, which now I love is Loving you a thousand times (2009 Korean drama). It’s about a girl who becomes a surrogate mother because she needs the money to help her dad through an operation that her family can’t find the right amount of money in time. After the birth of the child, the child was taken away from her (because the lady who organized the surrogacy told her not to get close to the baby) and she swore that she’ll find him. After 3 years, she is still looking for him as she works and eventually falls for a guy. However, she doesn’t realize that the guy she is in love with is the younger brother of the couple who paid for the surrogacy and is the parents of her baby. Some of the key themes of this drama is what goes around comes around, we live in a small world, like father like son, hiding a big secret has a way of coming out and more.

What I find interesting about watching Asian dramas is that even though some of the ideas are the same, they seem to have a slightly different way of interpreting it. Also, they don’t drag on and on like soap operas i.e. neighbours and home and away.

There is no way I’ll ever get sick of watching these Asian dramas even though they’re ideas are the same.