Korean Drama Lovers In The U.S. Are All addicted to Romantic Comedies

What’s love acquired to do with it? Because the strategy of Valentine’s Day conjures up ideas of romantic love, a brand new survey factors out that love has so much to do with Korean drama preferences. In the just lately launched Shopper Analysis Report on Korean Contents within the U.S. Market by the Korea Artistic Content material Company (KOCCA), 59% of the surveyed Korean drama viewers within the U.S. mentioned that romantic comedies have been their favourite style. KOCCA, a governmental company that researches the Korean contents enterprise, discovered that within the U.S. there was a gradual enhance in k-drama viewers and the variety of viewers who’ve watched k-dramas for greater than three years has additionally elevated. In accordance to the survey, girls of their late teenagers to early 30s are the primary viewers of k-dramas within the U.S. These surveyed mentioned they take pleasure in romantic comedies essentially the most (59%) and answered that the components they valued most when selecting a drama was the plot (53.5%) and the forged (25%). Among the many high 10 k-dramas chosen by viewers within the U.S., seven have been produced by Studio Dragon.

The high three dramas cited within the survey have been What’s Unsuitable With Secretary Kim, starring Park Min-young and Park Search engine marketing-joon, Resort del Luna, starring IU and Yeo Jin-goo, and Her Non-public Life, starring Park Min-young and Kim Jae-wook. Different well-liked dramas that weren’t distinctly within the romantic comedy style included A Korean Odyssey, Mr. Sunshine, Arthdal Chronicles, Sky Citadel, Angel’s Final Mission: Love, My ID is Gangnam Magnificence, and Guardian: The Lonely and Nice God. Among the many survey members, over half (58.2%) answered that they’ve been watching k-dramas for over 5 years, and 40.8% answered that they watch Korean dramas for a minimum of seven hours per week. The variety of viewers who watched Korean dramas for 5 to seven hours per week was 17%, three to 5 hours was 20.7%, and one to three hours was 16%. Additionally, 29.6% of the members acknowledged that they’ve watched six to 10 Korean dramas in 2019, and 23.2% watched over 20 dramas.