My name is Toshie Shimaoka. I'm a Japanese.

The first Korean drama for me is "Winter Sonata." I watched it in April,2004 on NHK.Then I watched "Beautiful Days","All in".

In January,2005,on satellite broadcasting, I watched "Dae Jang-Geum" Episode 13. I was absorbed in "Dae Jang-Geum" I bought "Dae Jang-Geum" DVD on Malaysian version in April,2005. Japanese version DVD didn't come out then.

It took only 8 days to watch the whole DVD,all Episodes(54).I was very impressed. What a great Korean historical drama "Dae Jang-Geum" is. I became a big fan of Ji Jin-Hee,who played as Min Jung-Ho.Then I got to watch Korean dramas with English subtitles.