What got you into the K-pop fandom? (1 Viewer)

[Buttercup]

Did a friend of yours introduce you to K-pop or?
You stumble upon a music video?

Spill it.​

 

[Mangoey]

I just randomly decided to watch dream high one day in like 2015? and really liked it. Through that show, I got really into 2pm for like 2 days and that led me to find SHINee's Lucifer making SHINee my first real ult group

 

[Michael]

It was this:



I was checking out video reactions and found this:


Then I checked out the song they mention:


That was the beginning.

 

[planetarium]

If I recall correctly, Youtube just started recommending me Sorry Sorry and/or Gee because I listened to quite a lot of jpop, lol. Nothing too fancy.

 

[RandAlThor]

yea i can use my intro post for what i designed it for ...

Good Morning!!!! warning warning warning long post :) - K-Pop Source — Keeping the K-Pop Forum Spirit Alive

At least its morning now for me..(but that is my standard greeting anyway it feels happier.) I am a Kpop Girl group fan. It is super super rare for me to bias a member and mostly only happens in groups I barely follow. Introduced to Kpop in late 09 early 10. Someone on a board i was on...

www.kpopsource.com

 

[dooh]

So is the question how we got in a fandom ? or kpop and fandom.

into kpop from a youtube reaction video to BTS blood sweat and tears 14 Months ago
( i had zero clue about kpop )




bts lead me straight to blackpink, my first fandom and group i stan ( blink ) after searching new content for blackpink ( it was around D4 comeback era )

good old times

 

[bulletproof]

I was watching lots os kdramas. Jiyeon from T-ara was acting in one drama and I guess I was listening to a OST.
This one if I’m not wrong

This led me to BIGBANG, my first kpop fav group and here I am since 2011

 

[Jimimis]

I have my little sister to blame >:(

 

[LoveYooShaSha]

Early 2000s, I first heard of Rain n Boa n the scandal of BaekJiYoung but before YouTube n Spotify never listened or watched them.

Flashforward to 2009, I learnt abt Gee by Girls Generation n YouTube exists, I watched it n them; slowly thru the years watched a few more but din't stan them then.

But in mid-2018, I started watching a couple more YouTube videos of SNSD variety shows n started stanning them from then on.

i learned more from kpop forums but rn I still only stan SNSD cos I hv no time for more. Except Rosé She also my bias after Jessica n I like all blackpink(but don't stan them.) yet?

 

[Wingfrost]

I think Fantastic Baby was recommended to me and it basically introduced me to a few songs by Bigbang which led me to discovering Exo. I don't really feel like I actually got into the genre though until after I had took a few years break from it and got back into it almost 2 years ago. Before that it was just something that I listened to and I never learned about the members and didn't actually stan any groups.

 

[VillageIdiot]

My friend had tried getting me into Boyfriend but it didn't stick
Stumbled across Gee on my own

 

[lostinwvnderland]

it was back when I was in 7th grade and my friend show me an episode of Full House starring Rain & Song Hye Kyo and show me video of Rain. After I discovered DB5K and that was when I was in love.

 

[yeji]

I stumbled upon SHINee‘s Lucifer in 2010 and immediately fell in love with the group. As soon as I started Hello Baby, I was deep into them.

 

[BlingyBlinger]

I wanna say it was Radio Disney and/or either GG's Run Devil Run or Wonder Girls Nobody that got me youtube searching and discovering kpop as a whole

 

[wholetthedogsout]

The first Kpop video I watched was EXO - Call me Baby..I remember liking Suho a lot (still do). I lost touch with Kpop after that
And after a few years I watched BTS- Blood, Sweat and Tears and I was hooked. BTS was the first group I liked and now I'm down the rabbit hole.
:wonugl:

 

[Moonrise]

Spring 2016:

my friend had been bugging me about BTS

and then during one of my study halls at school I decided to look up Kpop

and I found these






and I’ve been hooked ever since

 

[RavenHikari]

Back when I was huge weeb my friend on a fanfiction website was like you got of check out this Collab it's basically like real life anime.

It was catchy
Then YouTube recommended me this song

Donghae used to be the thumbnail and he is so handsome I instantly feel in love. Then I wanted know more about this group. Then because I love Suju I got into other groups as well. Then I feel in a dark hole thanks to my friend in 2009.
December marks my 10year anniversary​

 

[Kimono]

Somehow came across SNSd and years later found mr chu, me Gustas tu.. darling.
Etc. I loved the songs and cute concept.

 

[Evergreen]

One of my friends saw that I had Jpop songs on my cellphone and told me to listen to Shinee, Suju and Big Bang.

 

[George]

It was YouTube.
I'm fan of Tinashe, so another Tinashe MV


And I've searched for some mashups, and found


and then original