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How Did You Get Into Kpop?



Hello Forum!

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How the hell did you get into this mad mad world of Korean pop? What led you to such a rash decision?

Momentary lapse of judgment? Pretty boys? Pretty girls? Killer tunes? Fashion? What?!

Share your journey into kpop!


Mine:

So it was 12 long years ago.

There I was in class being studious when my Korean friend tapped me on the shoulder and said... Eman... look at this.

And on her laptop was SNSD's Into The New World....

So I watched.

Honestly I wasn't convinced until..... Yoona.

She appeared and suddenly I turned back to my friend and said, "Who is she? Who is this girl?"

"Oh that's Yoona."

Dear Allkpopers I was smitten.

Henceforth I was a Yoona fanboy and SNSD stan.

And the rest as they say...is history.

:pikahappy:
 

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A friend of mine started talking to me about it as they got into it and didn't have anyone to really talk to about it and eventually ended up coming across a livestream for Show Champion stages which from that I started liking some groups.
 
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i saw the light that shines out of jimin's butt
 

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Then I somehow a video with Gee as the background music.
The song was super catchy but I was in my anti-cuteness, above feminity phase.
Couldn't stop thinking about it to where I looked up the original video.
Was confused and excited by everything from the aesthetics to the adorable girl in green shorts
and cool yellow-short girl
to the sound of the Korean language.
Vowed to make it my only kpop song.
Eventually couldn't resist and looked up the next song recommended. Could not recognize a single girl but got whipped for the bossy chick with the good English

Looked up another and fell for this

Vowed to make them the only group. Didn't last a month
 
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I saw some of Rain music videos on the TV and then I searched it up online and I found about his drama then I found he was in a company called JYP and then I checked jyp music videos and then checked out G.o.d music videos becuase they were in the same company then wonder girls debuted 2PM and Mblaq I got trapped in this kpop trap :sanathink:
 

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How Did You Get Into Kpop?



Hello Forum!

Activity for today.

How the hell did you get into this mad mad world of Korean pop? What led you to such a rash decision?

Momentary lapse of judgment? Pretty boys? Pretty girls? Killer tunes? Fashion? What?!

Share your journey into kpop!


Mine:

So it was 12 long years ago.

There I was in class being studious when my Korean friend tapped me on the shoulder and said... Eman... look at this.

And on her laptop was SNSD's Into The New World....

So I watched.

Honestly I wasn't convinced until..... Yoona.

She appeared and suddenly I turned back to my friend and said, "Who is she? Who is this girl?"

"Oh that's Yoona."

Dear Allkpopers I was smitten.

Henceforth I was a Yoona fanboy and SNSD stan.

And the rest as they say...is history.

:pikahappy:

You've told your kpop origin story so many times I dont even have to click spoiler lol.

Mine is similar to yours though. It was also an SM girl group.
 
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Accidentally found Hello Baby with SHINee on yt and was curious so clicked on it. Jonghyun's hair is what caught my eye on the thumbnail and I was like "wtf is this"
 

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Mostly because my ex gf is a reveluv.

I've known some otakus that were into it before that, but I mostly mocked them and only was interested in Psy and Hyuna.
 
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Basically exploring through J-Pop and J-Rock, discovering more about BoA and TVXQ (namely that no, they are not Japanese, LOL, they're Korean. Hey! Check that out, K-Pop.)
 
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I was listening to Jpop for a good while and one of my middle school friend told me to listen to Kpop too. She recommended me Shinee and BigBang. I watched Lucifer mv, had a visual and musical shock and decided to explore more of Kpop.
 

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Watched Boys over Flowers, fell in love with Kim Hyun Joong (🤢), started watching his music videos on Youtube. I was then suddenly recommended SS501 MVs (they were actually the first K-Pop group I listened to) and then I was recommended TVXQ songs (I can't even remember the song now but I remember them riding a bike at the beach or something and I remember hating it lol). And then I was recommended EXO's pre-debut teasers. I don't even know how I ended up getting so interested in the teasers because I remember thinking it was weird and that there were so many members (which I didn't find attractive at all lol). But the only boy group I knew back then was 1D so I was very surprised that these boys danced, rapped and sang. So I ended looking into them and soon enough, I knew everything about the boys. I was lucky enough to have ended up finding out about them just a little bit before their debut so not long later MAMA came out and I LOVED it! The album was really good too so I ended up following them and watching everything related to them and now here I am. I feel like if I discovered them when the teasers were first released, I wouldn't be here now. I'm not patient enough for that so I would have lost interest quickly. So it was great timing.
I ended up only stanning EXO until RV's debut but around when Wolf came out, I discovered forums so I started discovering and listening to a lot of other groups and that was when I became a bigger K-Pop fan. I used to love BAP and SPEED back then too.
 

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Back in 2009, I read a magazine and one article recommended Gee. I watched it and didn't like it; I thought it was kids' music. Then in 2012, I was a regular in a chatroom; one week, they advertised their Gangnam Style. I hadn't watched it at that point, so I checked it out and was hooked immediately. Eventually, one of the recommendations on one of the Psy videos was Gee, so I watched it again; my opinion hadn't changed. I've stayed more to the weird side of Kpop ever since (Crayon Pop, Norazo, BEG's Warm Hole, etc.).
 

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back in 2010 I randomly stumbled on SHINee‘s Lucifer and Ring Ding Dong and fell in love with the boys. I slowly got more and more into more groups and rest is history.

what‘s funny is way before that I actually was obsessed with BoA‘s english album but knew like nothing about her.
 
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Back in 2010 I accidentally clicked on SHINee’s Lucifer instead of the next Digimon episode I wanted to watch. Down the rabbit hole I went...
 

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A friend of mine started talking to me about it as they got into it and didn't have anyone to really talk to about it and eventually ended up coming across a livestream for Show Champion stages which from that I started liking some groups.
Which group got you first??
 

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