Korean TV dramas attract less educated Chinese fans.

BadzMaro

11 Sep 13, 13:35

Leading roles of Korean drama My Lovely Sam Soon post for a photo. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese television viewers who watch South Korean TV soap operas earn less and are less educated compared to the fans of TV dramas made in other countries, a study has revealed.

Among all Chinese fans of television dramas, those who liked to watch Korean soaps were found to have lower incomes and lower academic backgrounds compared to those who watched popular American and Japanese television dramas, Donga Daily reported last Friday, citing a research paper.

The paper concluded that because most South Korean soaps had weak, illogical storylines, they tended to attract poorly paid and poorly educated people who preferred undemanding, sentimental plots.

The shows did not require intensive reasoning from viewers to keep track of the plots and allowed them to fulfil their need for sentiment, the study explained.

The research was carried out by Kang Myung-koo, a communications professor at Seoul National University. Kang and his team based their results on feedback from a group of nearly 400 Beijing residents aged between 20 and 50 who were asked to watch television dramas produced in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the US.

Popular American shows and a portion of Japanese ones were best received by the well-educated, high-income group as the shows employed more complex plots filled with suspense, the professor claimed.

Chinese internet users have long enjoyed television dramas from all over the world for free online because of rampant internet piracy. Fast-paced American dramas and emotional South Korean shows still attract the greatest numbers of viewers on China’s video sites, although the popularity of the later has been in decline in recent years, according to a study by a media consultancy.

A post widely circulated on Chinese social networks that identified a hierarchy of popularity claimed that fans of British dramas looked down on American TV drama lovers who in turn disdained Korean and Japanese soap fans. Further down were the Taiwanese and Hong Kong drama fans while domestic dramas lovers were at the bottom of the heap.

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LOL....

What other surveys and findings are there

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

11 Sep 13, 13:40

There is a difference between soap operas and idol dramas...

ditzy

11 Sep 13, 13:41

Ah, thats why I don't watch koran TV dramas.

SevenEleven

11 Sep 13, 13:53

i'm the less educated class :(

Ee Hoe Hean Club

11 Sep 13, 15:54

I watch Taiwan and HK dramas, how? Am I in less educated or more educated class?

FireIce

11 Sep 13, 18:19

hanor hanor

i not educated loh

Summer hill

11 Sep 13, 18:22

Luckily I am not in that club. I watch thriller shows like Under the dome, my fav is still fringe.

charlize

11 Sep 13, 22:56

I only have a few channels on my teebee.

FireIce

11 Sep 13, 23:00

at least u have a teebee.

but who watches kr drama on teebee?

charlize

11 Sep 13, 23:47

I better don't tell you my teebee is not a flat screen one.

SevenEleven

12 Sep 13, 09:26

Originally posted by charlize:

I better don't tell you my teebee is not a flat screen one.

hanor hanor

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

12 Sep 13, 09:37

Originally posted by charlize:

I better don't tell you my teebee is not a flat screen one.

OMG~

chiu ish hab the samsung new 110 Inch UHD Curved TV that was recently unveiled???

Shooo rich~~~~

charlize

12 Sep 13, 10:06

Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:

OMG~

chiu ish hab the samsung new 110 Inch UHD Curved TV that was recently unveiled???

Shooo rich~~~~

My teebee sometimes shuts down suddenly with no warning.

Once or twice a month.

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

12 Sep 13, 10:15

Originally posted by charlize:

My teebee sometimes shuts down suddenly with no warning.

Once or twice a month.

Aye, I've seen this happen in the dramas...

must be chiur wifey angry u no bring back enuff money so off ur teebee without warning

SevenEleven

12 Sep 13, 10:18

Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:

Aye, I've seen this happen in the dramas...

must be chiur wifey angry u no bring back enuff money so off ur teebee without warning

hanor hanor

FireIce

12 Sep 13, 13:56

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BadzMaro

12 Sep 13, 14:34

New Survey finds that that previous Survey is flawed. Educated people thinks by watching American and British dramas makes them sophisticated when in fact they generally have no social skills resulting in a bigger ratio of couch potatoes to slim jims.

FireIce

12 Sep 13, 15:19

those tt watch çˆ± and å¤œå¸‚ how

M the name

12 Sep 13, 15:40

Those with worst educated one are the one who watch Naruto!...Seriously...

charlize

12 Sep 13, 18:56

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

13 Sep 13, 09:58

I'm telling you... there's a difference between drama and soap opera...

16 or 21 episode vs 800+ episode...

look at Days of our lives... soooooooo many years and it is still showing -___-

charlize

13 Sep 13, 10:00

Woot.

Days of our lives.

SevenEleven

13 Sep 13, 10:05

Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:

I'm telling you... there's a difference between drama and soap opera...

16 or 21 episode vs 800+ episode...

look at Days of our lives... soooooooo many years and it is still showing -___-

but if 1 episode is 1 hr, you only need 34 days to finish the drama nia :(

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

13 Sep 13, 10:08

Originally posted by charlize:

Woot.

Days of our lives.

"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives"

according to wikipedia... it has 12164 episode as of September 2013... ran since November 1965...

12164

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

13 Sep 13, 10:10

Originally posted by SevenEleven:

but if 1 episode is 1 hr, you only need 34 days to finish the drama nia :(

Short drama, although sometime u feel sad when it finish, like not enuff

but some drama u pull abit long = zzz...

peopel are like tat one...

an example is like eating... U probably can eat 3 bowls of rice... but if I combine all 3 bowls into 1 big bowl, when u see the portion, u already abit sian liao...