Korean Drama

Stairway to Heaven

I have a new addiction - korean soap operas.

And I am ashamed of myself, frankly. I used to hate to watch such tear-jerking dramas. It's mainly about love and people crying, I'm not too interested. I prefer to western dramas especially comedies.

I watch one episode of "Stairway to Heaven", a korean drama and I am hooked.I start to like the characters and the plots, and then I watch another episode, and another episode, and another, and before I know it, I am addicted to it. And it is much better than snorting an opium.

Safer too.

These dramas transport me to somewhere familiar, where I can relate to my own experience in certain ways except that they have a beautiful background music being played and in very magnificient setting. I get wrapped up and be involved in the lives of character that I forget about my own problems.

That is what soap opera functions - manipulating our emotions, working out the plots based on our experience, we start to see the whole big picture, like a jigsaw puzzle. Even it doesn't, everything will still work according to the same dramatic laws of predestination. Those few quibbles make me keep coming back.

Unpredictable yet so ...... predictable.

Maybe the reason why people get so addicted to watching these (besides the beautiful people), is that there is so much injustice and romance that goes on in just one episode. I admit that my eyes go red while watching. I realise that the male character is the EVERY woman's ideal life partner - strong, powerful, rich , good looking yet still gentle, higly romantic and respect their mother. Only in asian soap operas, we can watch the male character cries in almost every episode. It is different from the western ones.

Ladies, start to have a reality check. Those males species are extinct or perhaps not even exist. Those male characters are meant for those women who deprive such loving treatment from opposite sex.

Nevertheless,I am new convert but one korean drama is enough for me. Such addiction can waste of time , just like playing my Xbox.