Amagad. I never thought it would happen (at least so soon), but i've become thoroughly korean-ified (FYI my girlfriend's half-korean, so well...you know the source of my korean-ification). I can more or less read Hangul, i love kimchi stew (and kimchi of course), and i know almost all of SHINee's melodies from start to end (and i'd probably know the entire songs' lyrics by heart by now if the songs were in English...now i only know vaguely what the general lyrics sound like).
Not only that, i watch quite a lot of korean reality TV, like days' worth. From watching the Hello Baby series, i also know all the members of SHINee and SNSD well enough; i know all their names and can rank them from my most favourite to least favourite member. Furthermore, i know the other K-Pop people enough to identify all the members from 2AM, 2PM, MBLAQ, U-Kiss, KARA, and f(x) and have favourite members from each group (no Super Junior though, unfortunately, and i don't know all the members from those other pop groups by name either, some are only by face).
By the end of this year, i also plan to learn the lyrics to one song from start to end (tentatively either SHINee's Romantic or In My Room...or maybe even Lucifer) so that i can sing it from start to end (duh). I don't think that makes me a Shawol though; i like their music and i watch their TV shows, but i don't stare at the members for hours, neither did i have any JongKey fantasies that were crushed by Jong Hyun's announced relationship with Shin Se Kyung (so straight guys can't qualify as Shawols? Well, i shan't comment; it depends on what standard we use).
But does this make me korean-ified? Oh yes, i'm afraid so.
