[Essay/Opinion] The Habit of Watching Korean TV Dramas in My Generation
created by Zahra Nur Fadilah
The Korean
TV drama era has spread in many countries, particularly Indonesia. Korean TV
dramas have been consumed both teenagers and adults. Technology has a great
role in the spread of Korean TV dramas. There are various types of Korean TV dramas
which can make most people interested watching it. The habit of watching Korean
TV dramas can appear positive and negative influence. Addicted people of Korean
TV dramas need to do some actions in order to decrease negative impacts.
The
spread of Korean TV drama in Indonesia is hard to be controlled. Besides
getting a DVD of TV dramas from a legal store, in this globalization era,
Indonesian can also get the DVD from an illegal store. Most people, usually
girls and even teenagers, can easily get the DVD because of the low price and
the easiness of getting it. The advance of technology has evolved for
supporting the growth of Korean TV dramas in Indonesia. The internet connection
facilitates watchers of dramas getting the soft file. Social
media also plays an important role in spreading dramas to many countries. Based
on the research of the website www.pewinternet.org,
Internet, Science & Tech
describes some graphics which show the increase of social media usage. The
website has revealed that “the rise of social media has affected such things as
work, politics, communications patterns around the globe”, getting and sharing “information
about health, civic life, news consumption, communicate, teenage life”, and
even more. How popular the existence of social media is. By having an account
of social media, everyone can get more information. Fans of the drama can
share, participate, and write some comments on social media. Besides of using
social media, there are also a blog which shows some ongoing or booming dramas.
People can easily download the file by following the step.
Most people may be interested to
watch the drama because of several factors. The number of episodes, various
genre of dramas, a curious of story plot, and special songs of dramas
soundtrack. A few of episodes of Korean TV drama may be preferred by drama lovers
in Indonesia than Indonesian dramas. In contrast, most dramas in Indonesia have
the long duration of episodes. The story also does not develop. The genres of
Korean TV drama include detective, murderers, love (the most often), family,
friendship, and many more. The love stories of Korean TV drama are usually
related with other complicated events. For example, pinocchio, the drama of SBS channel in Korea has a complicated
story. Although the love story of In ha and Dal po can be guessed, there are
some intricacies of the plot of the drama. The soundtracks of Korean TV drama have their own characteristic.
Each drama or channel attempts to make songs for the drama soundtrack. The team
project of drama does not take songs which have existed or from other bands.
Korean TV dramas often contain many inappropriate
scenes for teenagers. There are many sexual actions which are
showed. Kissing scenes the most often exist in Korean TV dramas. Rude words are
also often appear. Moreover most people, especially teenagers in junior or
senior high school even in college, mix terms of Korean daily conversation with
Bahasa in their informal conversation although it is not excused to mix them in
one time. The usage of Korean term with Bahasa can ruin the usage of Bahasa in
proper context. In addition, addicted people of the dramas can develop their ability
of speaking languages. They can at least be bilingual or multilingual people
including English as an international language. According to Jiang and Leung,
they do a research on American and Korean TV dramas that “Learning was the
third factor, showing that respondents watched foreign TV dramas to learn
foreign languages, be exposed to foreign cultures, or keep up to date about
fashion” (2012:11). Besides of kissing scene and the mixture of language,
negative impacts can influence health of addictive fans. They usually sleep
late. Sleeping at midnight or dawn time can make both their health and academic
scores getting worse. Teenagers have to prepare their needs to go to school
instead of watching dramas until midnight.
Besides learning about Korean (its language),
fans also get positive morals from K-dramas, such as Who are you school? 2015, My Daughter, Seo Young, You are the best, Lee
Soon Shin, and many more. Each of
them gives advice to fans. Who are you
school? 2015 is about friendship, bullying, and a child-parent
relationship, so on with My Daughter, Seo
Young (a daughter-father relationship), and You are the best, Lee Soon Shin (a daughter-mother relationship).
Thus,
the habit of watching Korean TV dramas can appear both negative and positive
influences. It occurs to teenagers in junior and senior high school even to
student in college. It is difficult to anticipate negative influences. The role
of parents can be crucial by supervising their children while watching the
dramas. There must be the fans awareness of national language in daily
conversation and appeared impacts of kissing or sexual scenes.
Jiang, Qiaolei and Leung, Louis. 2012. Lifestyles,
gratifications sought, and narrative appeal: American and Korean TV drama
viewing among Internet users in urban China. The access is from gaz.sagepub.com on Mei 29 2016
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