Mad About Bae

Bae Yong Joon a Korean actor.

Bae Yong Joon of "Winter Sonata", "Hotelier", "Have We Really Loved" and "Untold Scandal".

Bae Yong Joon, who are you to make me go crazy over you?

Bae Yong Joon...Yong Joon...BYJ...

I came to know Yong Joon in 2003 when "Winter Sonata" was being shown in our local channel at primetime. I remember taping the series every night so that I can watch it when I get home. You see, I get home late and normally cannot catch "Winter Sonata" on tv anymore. With the frustration building inside of me hearing my friends talk about the drama, I had my VHS player fixed.


For so many weeks after changing my clothes and taking my dinner, here i go sitting on my favorite spot and watching Bae Yong Joon in "Winter Sonata". This was the first sign of my addiction to Yong Joon. Since then I cannot seem to stop myself from knowing more about D' Man.

I was not contented with my taped locally dubbed "Winter Sonata" so I went crazily looking for a cd of the drama and found a supplier. But the thing was it was dubbed in Mandarin and the English sub-titles were very poor. Geez, what the heck I want to see BYJ so i bought it. One good thing though about it was that the NG was originally dubbed. So I was able to hear the soothing deep voice of Yong Joon.

Went to look for more of his dramas and saw "Hotelier". But again dubbed in Chinese with poor English sub-titles. Still I bought it, i did not t care if it's in Chinese and with bad sub-titles, who cares for so long it's Yong Joon.

Anyway, not contented again with "Winter Sonata" and "Hotelier", I went around looking for more of his dramas. But this time I got frustrated because nothing was available anymore in our country.

Darn, what to do? I want to see more of him.

End of 2003, my addiction to internet started all because of Bae Yong Joon. And the rest is what they say history.

Day in and day out, Yong Joon is on my mind. First thing that I do when I arrive at work is to access Quilt, KOB and Soompi. Even at my busiest time these 3 sites never leave my computer. They're one of the windows open in my work pc from 7:30am to 7:00pm.

Whenever I get home from work or anywhere, first thing to do after changing my clothes is to turn on my pc at home and again log to Quilt, KOB and Soompi. And this will be until the wee hours of the morning regardless if it's weekday.

If I put a number between 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest and 10 highest o\in my addiction to BYJ, i would say that I'm at 9. Quite high, huh?! Why not 10? Because I've never been to Korea yet and I've not seen him in person.

Madness...

Hangul. I used to self study Mandarin and Japanese. But when I saw "Winter Sonata" and heard how BYJ speaks the language, I've become more interested in the language.

K pop. My colleagues and friends who doesn't know about my addiction to k drama cannot seem to understand why I listen to Korean music. Need I elaborate more? WLS brought me to this level.

Korean food. I never liked the food. Again because of "Winter Sonata" and the Korean Wave boom I have become interested in tasting their food.

Korea. I never thought I would want to go to that country. But now, everything has changed. I'm planning to go in November with friends. Reason? Bae Yong Joon.

Why November? I would have wanted to go in September but because of work I don't think I can make it. But really, it would have been very great if i go in September, attend the bunggae and meet my other Baesisters.

Considering all of the above, is this madness?

Yes, it's madness. I've been a fan of asian stars but not as much as compared to being a fan of BYJ.

Bae Yong Joon is AWESOME. He ZAPPED me. I'm mad about BAE!