How old where you when you started to like Kpop (1 Viewer)

[Snailmin]

I was around 7 years old I think

 

[Snailmin]

I am teenager now so more than half my life

 

[Harmony_Starz]

start of 2022 I think?? so 4 years ago, I was 13 then

 

[HyuneSuga]

It was 2024 I became an all time Kpop stan but first got into Kpop in 2020

I'm embarrassed about my age but in my 20s

 

[dark_tranquility]

started in these years 2010-2012

 

[Snailmin]

It was 2024 I became an all time Kpop stan but first got into Kpop in 2020

I'm embarrassed about my age but in my 20s

Don’t be embarrassed

 

[kimsguardian]

around snsd gee released when i was in my high school era. yeah i know i'm old

 

[Snailmin]

around snsd gee released when i was in my high school era. yeah i know i'm old

2009?? 17 years ago !!

 

[Lexie]

I was in 7th grade, so it has been about 20 year now.

 

[HugeBakkaeMotae]

I liked it from the first time I heard Girls Generation in 2007 and I started listening to them regularly after they dropped 'Genie' in 2009. That was a different time though, there was no official YouTube content or social media presence and Korean variety shows were unheard of where I live so I can not exactly call myself a 'Stan' by todays standards, it was basically just the music and MVs and that was it. I only discovered Girls Generation because I was playing Starcraft with Koreans and some of them were really into it.

My horizons didn't broaden until Twice dropped 'Likey' in 2017 and it went "viral" in the west, I immediately looked up other MVs by that group and found 'Signal' which I didn't particularly like so I sort of put K-Pop on the back burner again but I would be more regularly exposed to K-Pop and listen to occasional random songs but it wasn't on the level where I knew the name of group members for a while yet.

In 2021 Twice came to me again while I was going through a tough time in my personal life, that time was all a blur but I remember that they were in the middle of 'Scientist' promotions at the time. I was just lying in bed and 'Likey' kept playing on repeat in my head (4 years after I had seen it) until I looked it up on YouTube and then the algorithm did it's thing; I was suggested a few TTT's at first and it snowballed from there until I had seen all of their content and gone to see them in person.

In hindsight I think my brain was trying to show me happy things to cope with what I was going through and I find it interesting that even though I wasn't that into it and hadn't seen this video for years my brain had subconsciously recognized it as something wholly wholesome and filed it away for a rainy day. I gotta say.. It worked like a charm. I'm in a much better place these days and K-Pop (especially Twice) helped me get here so they have a fan for life now.

This turned into more of a summary of my story instead of an answer to a simple question so TLDR; I was 18 in 2007, I was born in the same year as 6/9 SNSD members!



(Just look how happy they are!)

 

[BlingyBlinger]

Early middle school? During early SNSD/SHINee/Bigbang

 

[Snailmin]

I liked it from the first time I heard Girls Generation in 2007 and I started listening to them regularly after they dropped 'Genie' in 2009. That was a different time though, there was no official YouTube content or social media presence and Korean variety shows were unheard of where I live so I can not exactly call myself a 'Stan' by todays standards, it was basically just the music and MVs and that was it. I only discovered Girls Generation because I was playing Starcraft with Koreans and some of them were really into it.

My horizons didn't broaden until Twice dropped 'Likey' in 2017 and it went "viral" in the west, I immediately looked up other MVs by that group and found 'Signal' which I didn't particularly like so I sort of put K-Pop on the back burner again but I would be more regularly exposed to K-Pop and listen to occasional random songs but it wasn't on the level where I knew the name of group members for a while yet.

In 2021 Twice came to me again while I was going through a tough time in my personal life, that time was all a blur but I remember that they were in the middle of 'Scientist' promotions at the time. I was just lying in bed and 'Likey' kept playing on repeat in my head (4 years after I had seen it) until I looked it up on YouTube and then the algorithm did it's thing; I was suggested a few TTT's at first and it snowballed from there until I had seen all of their content and gone to see them in person.

In hindsight I think my brain was trying to show me happy things to cope with what I was going through and I find it interesting that even though I wasn't that into it and hadn't seen this video for years my brain had subconsciously recognized it as something wholly wholesome and filed it away for a rainy day. I gotta say.. It worked like a charm. I'm in a much better place these days and K-Pop (especially Twice) helped me get here so they have a fan for life now.

This turned into more of a summary of my story instead of an answer to a simple question so TLDR; I was 18 in 2007, I was born in the same year as 6/9 SNSD members!



(Just look how happy they are!)

Beautiful story!

 

[athenaaa]

In 2012 so I must’ve been around 10/11 years old

 

[centen]

I first got into Kpop in college, so I think around 20. SHINee's Lucifer was what hooked me, but after it was released. I think it was 2011.

 

[centen]

I'm embarrassed about my age but in my 20s

You are nowhere close to the oldest kpop fan here lol.

@RandAlThor @Selfmate my fellow olds who are also older than me

 

[TrinityJade]

Recently
Like 8th grade/freshman year of high school - ish

 

[ChiaraStar169]

I first got into K-pop in 2017, but it wasn't a full-blown obsession until three years later.

 

[eclipsoul]

somewhere between 2015-2016 so i was 14/15, imo it was the best time to get into kpop as most all-time greats were still active and the newest groups were also musically interesting. if i missed that era and only discovered kpop right now, i wouldn't be interested at all.

 

[lexus]

18/19

 

[sooya_]

I was around 7 years old I think

damn!!! almost life-long Kpop Stan