tara- they were really popular in china and other east asian countries in early 2009's and their song bop peep blew up, eveyone was doing the kitten dance. also i saw one of their members was on dream high kdrama with suzy, iu etc. their other member was on dream high 2 with got7 members, ailee, hyolyn as well.
snsd- the boys mv was radomly playing on this channel i was watching and i thought theyre so cool and yeah here i am.
fx- hot summer hooked me and they were constantly on this variety show called king of mask especially luna.
long haitus 2014-2018
red velvet- saw their bad boy mv thinking it wil be some bad boy bad girl cliche song and ate my words. kim yerim snatched me and they became one of the few 3rd gen groups i fully stan.
no bgs cause i really cant get into them sorry. overall, kpop has been around me all my life and it wasnt like foreign music so it wasnt difficult to find a group to stan.