Korean Drama Lovers In The U.S. Are Very 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 loads to do with Korean drama preferences. In the not too long ago launched Client Analysis Report on Korean Contents within the U.S. Market by the Korea Inventive Content material Company (KOCCA), 59% of the surveyed Korean drama viewers within the U.S. stated 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 improve 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, ladies of their late teenagers to early 30s are the principle viewers of k-dramas within the U.S. These surveyed stated they take pleasure in romantic comedies essentially the most (59%) and answered that the elements 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 Web optimization-joon, Lodge del Luna, starring IU and Yeo Jin-goo, and Her Non-public Life, starring Park Min-young and Kim Jae-wook.
Different common dramas that weren’t distinctly within the romantic comedy style included A Korean Odyssey, Mr. Sunshine, Arthdal Chronicles, Sky Fortress, 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 at the least 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.
Given the recognition of romantic comedies, Studio Dragon has deliberate extra romance for 2020, together with A Piece of Your Thoughts, starring, Jung Hae-In and Chae Soo-bin; Reminiscence of Youth, starring Park Bo-gum and Parasite star Park So-dam, Sandbox, starring Kim Seon-ho, The King, starring Lee Min-ho and Kim Go-eun, and My Holo Love, a Netflix unique starring Yoon Hyun-min and Go Sung-hee.