K-drama addicts, we need your input!

Hello and welcome!

This was request was originally posted on the SoCal drama boards, which I've copied below. In order to get feedback from people who didn't necessarily want to register in order to post feedback, this account was created.

We'd appreciate any and all input/feedback! Merely leave us a comment and please check back...we may also use this space for some K-drama discussions!

Here's the original post:

GotknockedupinUS and I have been kicking around an idea, and think we may be able to pull it off eventually, but we need your help. Would you buy/subscribe/spread the word about a fan magazine, in English, dedicated to our beloved Korean dramas, their stars and Korean pop stars?

Here are a few questions we'd need answered to take this idea to the broadcasters and publishers:
1. Assuming this would be published quarterly, would you pay $8-10 per issue for a glossy, fashion-type mag of approx 70 pages?

2. Would you be willing to subscribe? Subscriptions usually mean a discount on the cover price and recieving special, free promotional items (posters, maybe an OST, etc.) that are not available if the magazine is purchased at a newsstand or book store.

3. What would you like to see in the magazine?  We were thinking of the following:
a. Lots and lots of great pictures. 
b. Poster pullouts.
c.  Lots and lots of interviews.
d. Behind the scenes reports from dramas, parties and press tours.
e. Celebrity profiles.
f.  Recaps of favorite episodes, entire series recaps.
g. Reviews.
h. Previews - but since this is quarterly, no breaking news would really be availble, since everyone surfs the web. We could possibly however, preview shows before they get here.
i. Q&A from readers, fan comments.
j. A Web site dedicated to the magazine.

If anyone has contacts, relationships, etc. with Korean broadcasters, distributors and the whoever can get more dramas subtitled, please let us know. We will obviously need the help of these providers to get materials - IN ENGLISH - to put forward this idea to publishers. We have some contacts on the publishing side, but we need to make sure we can get the materials without just appropriating them from fan posts. This all has to be kosher and sanctioned by the Korean networks.

We were thinking this is a viable product for many English speaking, Korean fan territories including: the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and wherever else you know there are English speaking fans.

One more favor. If you are active on any other boards - in English, or that read English - related to Korean entertainment, and the Korean Wave, could you please pass along this information/request with the link to this post? To make this happen, we have to prove there are enough people willing to buy the magazine to make it worth publishing. We need to have a way to show the number of non-Korean speaking fans that we all know are out there. We will try to get ratings from broadcasters as well as figure out how we can get more stations to carry Korean dramas - with subs - to make the numbers work, but we need your help to show how big a base already exists.

If you have any other suggestions as to how to make this magazine happen we gladly accept them. Sorry for such a long post, but we're really excited about the possibility of making this a reality. Thanks to all of our fellow Korean drama addicts!