The Influence of Korean Drama To The Time Management of Female Teenagers in Manaoag, Pangasinan.
The Influence of Korean Drama To The Time Management of Female Teenagers in Manaoag, Pangasinan.
The Influence of Korean Drama To The Time Management of Female Teenagers in Manaoag, Pangasinan.
A Research Paper
Submitted to the Senior High School Department
WCC Aeronautical and Technological College
Binalonan, Pangasinan, Philippines
May 2018
THE INFLUENCE OF KOREAN DRAMA TO THE TIME MANAGEMENT
OF FEMALE TEENAGERS IN MANAOAG, PANGASINAN.
by
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Chapter I
Introduction
This section of the study is about how the researchers come up with studying
Manaoag, Pangasinan.
younger generations, especially the teenagers. Korean drama is part of what we call
the Hallyu Wave. In the Philippines, the Korean Dramas popularly known in the
country. With its first import, the show Bright Girl. Was aired in the national
television in 2003.
Right after the air of the show, Koreanovelas quickly spread across the
country with the networks rival, ABS-CBN also aired its own imported Korean
teenagers became addicted to what they watch. Especially young female teenagers.
A problem that teenagers face when watching Korean drama is when they
became addicted to it, they forget what their responsibilities are as the researchers
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study the question, “How do Korean Dramas Influence the Time Management of
In helping the researchers understand the topic, the researchers made questions that
2. How do the love of teenagers of Korean dramas affect the way they
a. Sex
b. Age
c. Weekly Allowance
teenagers.
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teenagers.
and storylines that makes it different from others. This study gives people idea why
Korean Dramas are affecting the youth. The researchers were curios of this rapid
growth of fanatics of Korean Dramas so they tried to make a study out of it which
they related to how these teenagers manage their time in accordance with watching
K-Drama. The researchers asked every respondent on how the youth were affected
by Korean dramas in terms of managing time. This also helps in determining the
reasons on how they wake up (on what time of the day) and how they do their
chores in a given time. Since there are many people in the Philippines watching K-
researchers have concluded on whom of the researchers know more people that
watch K-Drama.
This study also gives other people an idea about a factor (time management)
that can be related on how K-Drama will affect teenagers, not only teenagers, but
also everyone.
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The study is focused on seven (7) female teenagers ranging from ages
The study was delimited to seven (7) female teenagers since one of the
researcher has relatives residing at Manaoag, Pangasinan that could help in the
gathering of data.
Definition of Terms
other cultures.
Philippines.
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Chapter II
Korean Wave
wherein the culture from South Korea was introduced to the world through
television networks adapting them, movies that were inspired by their culture and
the popular music that people love. The Korean Wave reached other cultures or
known to depict the culture of South Korea in their dramas. (Ramadhani & Linadi,
2012)
primarily in the Chinese television networks during the mid-1990s, after Korea had
diplomatic relations with China in the year 1992. The diplomatic relation served as
the key for the Korean dramas to get many views and adaptations to Chinese-
speaking communities. Since its expansion, the first successful Korean drama to be
aired was the show “What is Love?” aired in china in 1997 by the Chinese television
Years after its first air in the Chinese televisions, Korean Wave spread
across the East and South East Asian Regions. It became a cultural trend in the
regions. With this trend, the teenagers were encouraged to go and visit South Korea.
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One factor that the viewers liked about the shows, was the appeal of the Korean
stars that affects the affection of the fans. With the commitment of the fans had a
programs was released in the region in 1999. With Swiri (called Shiri in outside of
South Korea), an inspiring movie about the North and South Korea that gaved
Hallyu a public face, eventually becoming successful across the Southeast Asian
the excitement created by “Swiri” in the past year. All the mentioned Korean
Dramas became very popular in Korea and its neighboring countries like Hong-
Kong, China, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan. The success of these entertainment
programs created a huge buzz about the exploding popularity of Korean culture to
wherein countries were able to share their economic abilities like cultural
industries. The Chinese audience became familiar with K-Pop through Korean
Dramas. With the looks of the Koreans, Chinese teenagers try to copy the styles of
their favorite stars, especially in their clothing styles, fashion and their hairstyles.
Even though Korean Dramas are very known to the region, there are still
that criticize it, with the anti-Hallyu movements. As Jang (2012) states that:
dramas entered the country in ‘90s, since then, Taiwan became a major importer of
Korean dramas. Korean dramas influenced the Taiwanese people on how to view
generally point to the substance and technique of the dramas and the appeal of the
actors, namely that the plotline and structure of the dramas are refreshing and
dynamic, the subject matter is familiar and close to everyday life, the production
skills such as set design, musical score, and camerawork are outstanding, and the
actors are physically attractive, strikingly individual, fashionable, and have strong
Korean Wave quickly spread across the East and Southeast Asian Regions
when one of the country’s biggest television network aired the very first imported
Korean drama, Bright Girl. With the studies Correa published in 2012, it is said
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that Korean dramas was most watched by Filipinas with ages 15-19, with Romance
Comedy as their preferred genre. With the given data, the researchers limited the
research within the ages 15-19 and the genre of the chosen Korean dramas was
Filipinas like Korean dramas because of classic plots; Every Korean Drama
have a different genre and it is hard to predict what will happen next in the story.
Actors and actresses help catch the eyes of the viewers because they act
extravagantly and passionately; In addition to that, they are also good looking
(Torre, 2006).
In the survey done by TNS Global titled “Korea in Our Daily Life: A look
Korean TV shows and movies because everything that the Koreans are doing are
pleasing and appealing to see, the tempered blend of character and plot (Lee S. J.,
2011).
of the negative effects that Korean Dramas may bring to teenagers can be seen on
The article by Kusumasari (2017), talked about the effects of Korean Drama
on how the teenagers dress, and how they imitate the actions of their idols from
their favorite Korean Drama. In the current generation, social media plays a major
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role in quickly spreading trends. Their peers also play a role in how the teenagers
imitate the Korean Stars. The author stated in this article that:
Some teenagers tend to bond with people whom they feel comfortable with,
because they relate their similarities and so forth. Nowadays, some teenagers tend
to study more about Korean culture. Without appropriate actions, this phenomenon
many people in the world, especially the growing teenagers. The people are more
likely to remain at their houses to watch television and to sit at their favorite couch
eating popcorn.
In the article, the authors tried to tell the readers that people nowadays do
not know what bad things might happen to them while they are watching.
According to the authors, watching television can give a person negative habits,
meaning they can no longer do what they can do. They gave pieces of advice on
how to stop or lessen the addiction of the viewers at their television. The authors
also stated that the heavy viewers were more anxious than those who watch light.
Both suggested that the television networks should have educational shows to help
the viewers understand or learn new things instead of viewing what they call
“nonsense” shows. Since without the help of television, people would not learn new
The researchers can use this article to help them find out what the bad
effects of watching television immensely are, how the researchers can apply it to
their topic and how the researchers are going to relate the article to a young teenager
that is always focused on what he or she is watching. The researchers can also use
this article as a reference on what pieces of advice they could give the teenagers or
the people watching television immensely on how they can again, socialize with
other people and be responsible again to what their duties are. (Kubey &
Csikszentmihalyi, 2002)
The study of Meer, Jansen, & Torenbeck (n.d.), talked about the findings
regarding the expectations and challenges with issues of time management. It also
showed the two sides of students which are: 1) the one that focus on their plans in
life on how they study by themselves and 2) the one that has difficulty on their own;
This article can help the researchers because it pertains to the study of time
management of students regarding to their study and how they manage time.
Conceptual Framework
The independent variables are the person affected and the Korean Drama.
There are also many factors that can affect the person’s perspective which are their
age, educational attainment, civil status and family background. These relate to
each other in a way that can show how the person thinks while the person is
watching K-drama. They can also relate because of what they watch wherein, it
depends on the length of the episode and they find no time or less time in allotting
Figure 1.
Background
Family
Age
Time Management
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Chapter III
Methodology
This section of the study aims to show the method(s) used by the
Research Design
research delineates and highlights the characteristics of what is being studied. The
researchers choose this type of research because it helps them to be able to interpret
The targeted respondents were seven female teenagers that were able to help
method and snowball method in this study that were distributed to the respondents
of the study
Research Instruments
of the study wherein, six (6) of the respondents were interviewed through the use
of the internet via “Facebook” –a social media app while one (1) of the respondents
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were interviewed personally. Thus the researchers were able to gather data for this
study.
wherein, six (6) of them were personally known by the researchers meanwhile, one
(1) was selected trough snowball method. Before the researchers chose the
respondents or participants as part of this study, six (6) of them were asked
personally. The respondents were given qualitative questionnaires at the same time,
interviewed .They were asked about some personal information (profile) and how
they were being influenced by Korean Dramas in the way they manage their time.
Everything in the interview was documented by the researchers that would be used
Chapter IV
Manaoag, Pangasinan. All of them were female respondents. The internet became
their medium in watching Korean dramas every free time they had.
According to her, no one influenced her to watch Korean dramas instead she told
us that the show that motivated her to watch Korean drama is the show, “Who are
you: School 2015.” She told the researchers that the interesting plot of the story
encouraged her to watch more Korean dramas. It became her favorite as the show
goes on. The top three (3) Korean dramas she watched were; “Who are you: School
2015, D-Day, and Doctor Stranger.” According to her, she watches by herself
because she wants silence when watching to feel the show. She watches Korean
drama as a past time and to relax. When asked about how she thinks Korean dramas
affects her, she told the researchers that Korean dramas affect her because she gets
easily attached to the Korean drama to the point that it affects her emotional and
physical aspect as well as physically. When asked about what she thinks the effects
of Korean dramas to her sleeping habit, she told the researchers that it affects her
sleeping habit since she is easily attached to what she was watching. Whenever she
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finishes an episode, she like to watch again another episode. This habit leads her to
sleep late at night. Korean dramas for her does not affect her studies since she
knows how to manage her time between studies and watching Korean dramas.
Korean dramas does not affect her time in helping in the household chores because
she knows when to watch and when to do the chores. The researchers asked the
dramas she watched, and she said a lot. And the effect for her is that it affects her
socialization with other people. In short, Korean dramas affects her both positively
and negatively. With the data given by the interviewee, the researchers can answer
the given research question, specifically the profile, the effects of Korean dramas
to the way they manage time, who influenced them and whom she watches with.
With the support given by the study of Correa, we can identify that the favorite
and came from a neutral family. For her, Korean dramas do not specifically
influence her way of managing time. With her cousins as the one who influenced
her, she watches Korean dramas with them. With her favorite shows like “4th
Period, While you were sleeping, and Korean Odyssey.” According to her, she
watches Korean dramas for their plots and plot twists. She likes the idea that Korean
dramas do not stick in one love team. For her, Korean dramas do not stick in one
love team making them unique. In managing her time, Korean dramas do not affect
her because according to her, she doesn’t have a busy life. She watches Korean
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dramas every weekends with 2-3 hours allotted time. When asked about what she
thinks the effects of Korean dramas to her sleeping habit, she told the researchers
that it do not affect her sleeping habit since she only watches every weekends. For
her, she focuses on studying more than watching Korean dramas. Korean dramas
do not affect her performance in her household chores because she knows what her
duty every night is. The researchers asked her if she does have any imaginary
boyfriend in the Korean dramas she watches and if it affects her socialization with
others, she said yes. She told the researchers that having a virtual or imaginary
boyfriend brings her shield up and she limits who she talks to because she do have
her own world. In short, Korean dramas affect her both positively and negatively.
With the data gathered, the researchers could answer the given research questions
specifically. The data given is used to answer our primary research question.
300-500 and came from an extended family. According to her, no one influenced
her to watch Korean dramas, she was just surprised with the way the Korean dramas
express their idea and she became attached to it. Her favorite Korean dramas are
“Hwayugi, Another Miss Oh, and Rebel: Thief who stole people.” She prefers to
watch alone because she is an introvert and she prefers to watch in full silence.
Korean dramas sometimes affect her when managing her time, as she tells the
researchers that she prefers to watch Korean dramas more than doing her tasks or
activities. She watches Korean dramas every night with an hour allotted to it. When
asked about what she thinks the effects of Korean dramas to her sleeping habit, she
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told the researchers that it do affect her sleeping habit since she watches Korean
dramas every night and if the said Korean drama is good, then she would watch
another episode until she is finished watching. Even though she prefer to watch
Korean dramas instead of studying, she still gets high grades at school and tells the
researchers that she can manage her time. At home, she is doing well with her
household chores and Korean dramas does not affect her. The researchers asked her
if she does have any imaginary boyfriend in the Korean dramas she watches and if
it affects her socialization with others, she said yes. She told the researchers that
the male characters in Korean dramas are good-looking and gentle, even though
she do have crushes or imaginary boyfriends, she still managed to get along with
her peers. In short, Korean dramas affect her both positively and negatively. With
the data gathered, the researchers could answer the given research questions
specifically. The data given is used to answer our primary research question. With
the data gathered, the researchers could say in accordance to the article of Mee,
Jansen and Torenbeck (n.d.) that she do have a focus on what she does and how do
Manaoag. She is single, with a weekly allowance of PhP 300-500 and lives in a
neutral family. According to her, she became interested to Korean dramas when her
best friend introduced it to her. Because they share the same Korean dramas, they
talked about what happened to some episodes of the said Korean drama. Her
favorite Korean dramas were “Cinderella of the Four Knight, Legend of the blue
sea, and lets fight ghost.” She prefers to watch alone when she watches Korean
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dramas, to cherish every second of the show she is watching. The reason she
watches Korean drama is for the plot and plot twists, according to her, very different
from Filipino dramas. For her, Korean dramas do sometimes, affect her time
management, not at school but in their household. She prefers to watch every
afternoon, because the schedule of the schedule of her classes. When asked about
the effects of Korean dramas to her, she told the researchers that it affects her
negatively for she is more focused on what she is watching and ignore the world
around her. The researchers also asked her if she do have an imaginary boyfriend
on the Korean dramas she watches and do it have an effect on how she socialize.
She said yes. According to her, she do have a crush or imaginary boyfriend on the
Korean dramas she watches, even though she do have virtual or imaginary
boyfriend on Korean drama, she still mingles and hang out with her friends so for
her, it does not affect her socialization to other people. According to her, the only
negative of Korean dramas to her is her lack of interest in doing household chores.
She forgets her responsibility at home and she prefers to watch Korean dramas just
to skip her duty. In short, Korean dramas affect her somewhat negatively. For the
sake of skipping chores, she prefers to watch Korean dramas and this is a sign of a
difficulty on her own (Meer, Jansen, & Torenbeck, n.d.). With the data gathered we
can answer our research questions specifically the profile of the interviewee, the
person she watches with and influenced them and how do Korean dramas affect her
time management.
lives in a neutral family. Her best friend is the one who introduced her to Korean
dramas. She told the researchers that her best friends watches Korean dramas by
her side and when she forced her to watch a series, she quickly became attatched to
it. She loved the plot of the story. Her favorite Korean dramas were, “Moon lovers:
Scarlet Heart, Two Worlds, and School 2017.” For her, she enjoys watching with
friends because they can talk about and share to each other the feelings they
experience while watching. Her reason why she watch Korean drama is because
Korean dramas have interesting plots and they have a different plot and storyline
as compared to Filipino dramas. She also added that Korean dramas are the only
thing she think when she is bored and does not have anything to do. Her preferred
time to watch Korean dramas is at night, and she spends an hour just to watch
Korean dramas and after watching, she chats her best friend and tells her the story
of the episodes she watched. When asked what the effects of Korean dramas to her,
she told the researchers that Korean dramas affect her time to study, do her tasks
and socialize with other people. She told the researchers that she have a virtual
boyfriend from the Korean dramas she watched and it do affect her time socializing
because she prefers to talk about Korean dramas that her other friends slowly cope
up. In short, it affect her both positively and negatively but she prefers to follow
the bad effect that made her have a difficulty on her own (Meer, Jansen, and
Torenbeck, n.d.). The researcher could answer the given specific research questions
like the profile, the one who watches with, the one who influenced and the effect
Interviewee F was a 17-year old, senior high school student and currently
an extended family. According to her, her aunt influenced her to watch Korean
drama because her aunt let her watch Korean drama by her side. She told the
researchers that she was impressed by the story of the Korean dramas and she
wanted to continue it. Later, she became addicted to it. When she became addicted
to it, she preferred to watch by herself as she is an introvert. Her favorite Korean
dramas were “City Hunter, Blood and Doctor Stranger.” Her reason why she watch
Korean dramas is for the plot, plot twists and for the good-looking male characters
in the Korean drama she watches. When asked about how she thinks Korean dramas
affect her, she told the researchers that it affects her when she forgets how to
manage her time, giving more time to Korean dramas instead of doing her tasks and
becoming stubborn to study because she wanted to finish the episodes she is
watching. She have an imaginary boyfriend like any other Korean drama fans do.
She told the researchers that those crushes or boyfriends do not hinder her from
socializing but her being an introvert does. Her performance at school is not very
well, according to her. And she also forgets her role as a family member. In short,
Korean dramas affect her negatively very much. With the article of Kubey and
With the data gathered, the researchers could understand and answer the specific
Interviewee G was a 16-year old grade 11 senior high school student also
According to her, no one influenced her to watch Korean dramas, she is curious to
it that she watched a random Korean drama and liked it. She prefers to watch by
herself because her other friends do not watch Korean dramas. Her favorite Korean
dramas were, “Dream High 2, Uncontrollably Fond and Reply 1988.” According
to her, she tends to watch by herself because it is silent and she can reminiscent
while watching. Her reason why she watches Korean drama is to kill some time
when she does not do anything. She also balances her time in watching Korean
dramas and studying. Giving more of her time to studying made her a dean’s list.
When asked about how she thinks Korean dramas affect her time management, she
simply answered that it gives her entertainment during her spare time and she
knows how to manage her time. She have an imaginary boyfriend and for her, it
does not affect her socialization with other people because she is friendly and nice.
With her great performance at school, even at home, her performance is still good.
According to her, she knows how to balance everything she does. In short, Korean
dramas affect her positively. Like in the study of Meer, Jansen, & Torenbeck (n.d.),
they talked about the teens who knew how to focus on what their plan is and is not
hindered by anything on the path. The data gathered could help the researchers in
Analysis
will arrange them and analyse the data according to their information.
In further understanding of the topic, the researchers would break down the
topic into parts. First of all Korean drama. Why Korean dramas? Korean dramas is
smartphones of the teenagers. As years pass by, the teenagers focus on what they
do separates away. As the result, the teenagers are affected by the sudden changes
in their academic performances, their performance at home and how they socialize
with other people. Korean drama can be broke down into parts like its genre. For
The study is limited to teenagers with ages 15-19 because of the ages of the
majority of teenagers that watch Korean drama are within this range.
Korean wave, which reached the Philippines in the year 2003 when the first
“koreanovela” was aired. Years after that Philippines is still a major importer of
Korean dramas. The objective of this study is to identify the influence of Korean
dramas to teenagers. With the possible outcome as the conclusion of the study.
Based on the data gathered, some of the teenagers balances their time with Korean
The results of the data gathering shows how the teenagers nowadays
Chapter V
researchers after analyzing the results gathered and gave recommendations on how
Conclusions
The profile of the respondents were determined and the respondents were
found through interview, and snowball methods to find the selected female
teenagers. The teenagers were sorted according to their answers and created a
The researchers conclude that the age range of teenagers that mostly watch
Korean dramas is from 16-17 years old. It is concluded that the internet became
their medium for watching Korean dramas and interacting with other fans. The
teenagers talked about how they manage their time while watching Korean drama.
positive and negative effects. Majority of the interviewed respondents told us that
it give them negative impacts, some of the do not. Some of the positive effect
Korean drama give the respondents are the enjoyment, excitement and
dramas to the time management were; 1) the performance of the teenagers at home
that because of the more time the respondents give Korean drama, the time allotted
to the other activities they are doing becomes lesser and lesser.
Manaoag, Pangasinan manage their time by allocating specific time to each activity
they do and giving themselves time to watch Korean dramas aside from the current
Recommendations
accordance with watching Korean Dramas, for the researchers focused only on how
the teenagers managed their time while a K-Drama fanatic. The recommended
additional to the present study would help on knowing more on how these factors
time better, not only in Manaoag but also to other parts of the country.
The researchers would like to recommend for the future researchers to interview
more young teenagers to know more about how they manage their time in
watching Korean Drama. Look for more references for further clarification of the
heads of different school about the time management of young teenagers, for
them to earn more focus on their studies and school activities this can be
Education facilities to conduct a barangay events, in where they teach every young
member and adults in the society to help them focus on their time management and
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