Introduction

CARI K-drama & K-pop Club was set up by the CARI Forum communities in the last few years to celebrate our interests in Korean cultures especially Korean dramas, k-pop music, and Korean celebrities. We were using CARI Forum as room to express our enthusiasm and passionate. By actively holding the discussion about the dramas, celebrities and variety shows that we loved in that forum, we managed to keep getting quite number of people to join the forum (automatically join the club) in accordance to Malaysian’s interests and demands in Korean cultures that kept on increasing by year.  We were not just chatting and holding discussions, but also doing a couple of activities either by online or outdoor gathering mostly held by our dedicated forum moderators: isabel , dauswq, eddlisa_uyuk & nzhass79 . We had a number of outdoor gatherings purposely to familiarize among ourselves in real life. 

In 2012, the club introduced the first ever online korean awards, CARI 2012 K-Drama awards, held in CARI Forum to celebrate and give credits for the excellencies of soap drama achievements. In CARI 2012 K-Drama, we were taking the nominations given by our communities for the popular and critical reviews awards. It will then be followed by the CARI 2013 K-Drama & Variety Shows but with some improvements in the quality of nominations, where we were taking each single community’s review on that drama they watched in order to be calculated for the eligibility of being nominated for certain awards categories.  Besides, we held several activities to keep our communities interest in upcoming awards.

Since the online award was conducted inside Malaysian Forum, thus the language used to converse among the fans were Malay and English.

For the excellence categories, we determined the nominations by analyzing the reviews done by the forum committees. Normally, after the drama finished, we asked our forum committees to write the critical and lengthy review. The analysis process was done critically without any prejudice or bias on item's popularity or success. We take all the reviews of the k drama from three major broadcasters - KBS, SBS & MBC and the cable channels - TvN, JtBc, OCN. While for the popularity categories, we open the voting process so that they can choose their favorites.

Our Online K Drama Awards might be best considered as critic award without representation of the award receivers. The purpose of the award was to give idea (sort of recommendations) of the yearly list of k drama to the fans which was recommend by the committees, not by one person. All for this awhile, it was done among Malaysian fans under the constraint of CARI Forum.

CARI K-drama & K-pop Club has seen many achievements in the last few years. CARI Forum administrator has support us in term of giving us a forum space and also some credit rewards for our efforts to keep the forum alive by doing active discussions and activities.  Several boards like Asian Drama & Telenovela, Asian Celebrities and Media are inside our authority.