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I actually like a lot of different genres; i often like fantasy dramas, like a korean odyssey; hotel del luna and such. But also more criminal/serial killer series, like come and hug me; signal; through the darkness. Zombie series, like Kingdom and zombie detective. I do like romance, but i really dislike the display of weak women. I have to be honest, i do have some criticisms regarding kdrama too, for instance the alcohol culture, dragging drunk women around on someone's back, or dead fish kisses. I'm also not a fan of misunderstandings that drag along, while they could have just talked to each other and it would have been solved. I'm not sure it's all about genres that attract me. I think i partly decide to watch when i see certain actors and actresses in the cast. Or when people recommend certain kdramas - that's what i liked on reddit; r/kdramarecommends was a great source and i'm hoping we can do this here too.
Sounds like we have similar approach to our drama selection, though mine is really more depending on my mood at the time of choosing. I do gravitate more towards action/crime dramas and less towards sageuk, but as long as the story looks interesting I'd watch. Oh and definitely no makjang for me. Tried a few episodes of Penthouse and World of The Married, yea nah.
Oof it will take much longer for us to reach the levels of those two subs, especially with the lack of userbase here. I did see some lemmings who sail the high seas asking about places to watch or get some kdramas, so I think there is some interest.
I learned what sageuk is - which i have watched a couple that i liked - but i don't know what makjang is. I did a search and it sounds like it might be like soaps? And sure, it will take a while to become bigger, but i think we might attract people over time by just posting. I don't think really think that we will get a massive flood of ex-redditors at once, but i do believe that it might become a little stream that will grow along the way. A tiny percentage of those will be interested in kdrama and when they see an active community, which gets crawled by search engines, people will join. It will just take a long time, would be my guess, but i can be patient. But i was already thinking about putting some posts out, just to show that this is already an active - tiny - community.
Yes, makjang is basically a very drawn out soap that will test your imagination and patience. Some people seem to like it, and I think the most popular dramas in Korea are usually of the makjang variety.
Please put some posts out when you feel like it! I'm trying to decide if we need to move to another instance, since chirp.social seems to be on kbin and could be difficult to manage if we're all coming from lemmy side. Do you think it's worth a shot to join forces with the other kdrama community? They've already got a mod there and with us being there we'd have more users too.