Welcome to East Asian Icons! 🌏✨

A new little corner of Lemmy for celebrating the people, dramas, movies, music, fashion and pop culture that make East Asian entertainment impossible to escape. 😂

🇨🇳 C-Drama & Chinese entertainment 🇰🇷 K-Drama & Korean entertainment 🇯🇵 J-Drama & Japanese entertainment 🇹🇼 Taiwanese entertainment 🇹🇭 Thai entertainment 🌏 And more across East Asian pop culture

This isn't just a news board.

Share the actor you currently can't stop thinking about. Drop a drama recommendation. Post an iconic photo. Talk about a comeback. Share a ridiculous fandom moment. Bring the fashion. Bring the memes. Bring the entertainment tea. ☕👀

Basically:

If East Asian pop culture made you pause your scrolling and go "WAIT—WHO IS THAT?"... this is the place.

Come introduce yourself and tell us:

🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇹🇼 🇹🇭 — Which entertainment industry has you in a chokehold right now?

Let's build this place together. 🫶

Come for the icons. Stay for the fandom.

#Emergency.

My watchlist is somehow 400 dramas long and I still don't know what to watch tonight. 😭

So let's make this simple.

Recommend ONE East Asian drama that you genuinely think people should watch.

It can be:

🇨🇳 C-Drama 🇰🇷 K-Drama 🇯🇵 J-Drama 🇹🇼 Taiwanese drama 🇹🇭 Thai drama 🌏 Anything else from East Asian entertainment

But there's one rule:

You have to sell it in ONE sentence.

Not:

"It's really good."

I need:

"Watch this if you want [X], but prepare yourself for [Y]."

😂

I'll start:

Your turn. 👇

Clue #1: They are known across East Asian entertainment and have worked in more than one area of the industry.

Clue #2: Their face has probably appeared on your feed approximately 47,000 times.

Clue #3: At least one person reading this already knows the answer from Clue #2 alone. 😂

WHO IS IT?

Drop your guess below before looking at anyone else's answer.

👇

And if you get it right, YOU get to choose the next icon for someone else to guess.

🌟 ICON SPOTLIGHT 🌟

Let's start our East Asian Icons series with one very recognizable C-Drama face:

Song Weilong (宋威龙) 🇨🇳

Actor. Model. C-Drama heartthrob. Professional destroyer of everyone's ability to concentrate. 😂

If you've watched Chinese dramas, you've probably encountered him in one form or another.

Some of his better-known dramas include:

🎬 Go Ahead 🎬 Find Yourself 🎬 In a Class of Her Own 🎬 Everlasting Longing 🎬 Shine on Me 🎬 League of Nobleman

And if you're already a fan, you know the real question isn't "Who is Song Weilong?"

It's:

"Which Song Weilong role made you notice him?" 👀

Drop your answer below — and if you're NOT a SWL fan yet, tell us which C-Drama actor currently has your attention.

Because this community is about all the icons. 🌏✨

Let's go back to the beginning. 👀

Not your current favorite.

Not the actor you're obsessed with right now.

I'm talking about the person, drama, idol, movie or character that made you fall down the East Asian entertainment rabbit hole in the first place.

Maybe it was:

🇨🇳 A C-Drama 🇰🇷 A K-Drama 🇯🇵 A J-Drama 🇹🇼 A Taiwanese drama 🇹🇭 A Thai series 🎤 An idol 🎬 A movie 👀 Or simply one extremely attractive human being who appeared on your screen and completely ruined your productivity.

😂

Who was yours?

And bonus points if you tell us what you watched/read/listened to next.

Let's see how many completely different rabbit holes are represented here. 👇