Is binge-watching K-dramas until 3am a hobby, or a quiet cry for help?

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  Zara 923w ago

  It's a hobby. People run marathons to escape their lives too and we call them 'disciplined'. Let me have my ramyeon and heartbreak.

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  Elena3w ago

  There's a fine line between 'comfort watching' and 'using a fictional couple to not think about how alone I feel' and I cross it nightly.

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  Omar R.3w ago

  It's a hobby until you're rescheduling your life around a 16-episode release. Then it's a relationship.

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• Y

  Yuki3w ago

  The parasocial attachment to these couples is REAL and we should talk about it more honestly, lovingly, while watching episode 15.

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  Alex3w ago

  I use K-dramas to FEEL things I'm too closed off to feel in real life. That's either healing or avoidance and I genuinely can't tell.

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  Iris 923w ago

  Calling a hobby a 'cry for help' is so condescending. Nobody says this about people who watch 9 hours of football.

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  Taylor3w ago

  3am, episode 14, sobbing, work in 4 hours. I have done this and would do it again. It's not sad, it's living.

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  Quinn 923w ago

  Be honest, half of us are watching couples fall in love because it's safer than risking it ourselves. Just me? Okay.

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  Marco3w ago

  I learned more about emotional vulnerability from K-dramas than from my entire upbringing. If that's a cry for help it's a productive one.

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  Omar3w ago

  I watched 6 episodes after a breakup and it was cheaper than therapy and more effective than my ex. No notes.

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  Marco3w ago

  Escapism becomes a problem when it replaces your life, not when it's Friday night and you're tired. Most of you are fine.

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  Drew M.3w ago

  The 'one more episode' design is literally engineered addiction. Don't blame yourself, blame the cliffhanger writers.

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