What got you into kpop?

[sᴇᴜʟʟᴏᴠᴇsᴍᴇ]

it could be a song, group, m/v, TikTok, a friend wtv!

 

[knnovation]

I was watching asmr one day & people in the comments were saying the girl in the video looked like Lisa from BP and I was like "who tf is Lisa from BP" and typed in "Lisa from BP" in YouTube and it pulled up Blackpink and then I got into BTS after that cause it recommended a video of theirs to me so yeah

 

[sᴇᴜʟʟᴏᴠᴇsᴍᴇ]

I was watching asmr one day & people in the comments were saying the girl in the video looked like Lisa from BP and I was like "who tf is Lisa from BP" and typed in "Lisa from BP" in YouTube and it pulled up Blackpink and then I got into BTS after that cause it recommended a video of theirs to me so yeah

that's kinda funny if someone looks even a tiny bit like a kpop idol they immediately get bombarded by fans

 

[𝄞 ⋆˚࿔ ⋮ Alicryst]

i got into kpop from my grandma, she comes from korea, and she said in like 2015 i think that she saw this group called BTS and another called BLACKPINK, and was watching some of their videos and saying how their songs are so good and lively to her, so I watched it with her and idr what the videos were, i was superrrr young, like 4-5, and i rlly liked it so she told me it, and since then ive been a fan for so longggg

but then gangham style was popular-

 

[sᴇᴜʟʟᴏᴠᴇsᴍᴇ]

i got into kpop from my grandma, she comes from korea, and she said in like 2015 i think that she saw this group called BTS and another called BLACKPINK, and was watching some of their videos and saying how their songs are so good and lively to her, so I watched it with her and idr what the videos were, i was superrrr young, like 4-5, and i rlly liked it so she told me it, and since then ive been a fan for so longggg

but then gangham style was popular-

that's rlly cool! but bp debuted in 2016 but yeah Gangnam style has always been popular so not a surprise kinda similar to my story also!

 

[𝄞 ⋆˚࿔ ⋮ Alicryst]

that's rlly cool! but bp debuted in 2016 but yeah Gangnam style has always been popular so not a surprise kinda similar to my story also!

idr when bp debuted cuz i was little lmao and also lmaoo

 

[ʚ 🥟ɞ 𝔤𝔬 𝔮𝔲𝔬𝔨𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔦𝔢 𝔤𝔬 🎸⋆🐿️˚｡⋆]

One day, when I was a kid, I saw BTS on TV and KABOOM. My life literally changed when I found SKZ in 2018, like SKZ basically was there for me ever since I was 6 but anyways thats how i got into kpop

 

[flynn]

One day I was in a store and I heard We lost the Summer ～ Txt and I loved it but I couldn't find it anywhere at first, but like 3 years later after the release of the song I finally found it and I started to listen to Txt more. Then I listened to other groups like stray kids and twice, then I was a Kpop fan.

 

[⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚Hannie quokka˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆]

I was on the plane from Japan to New York, then I was listening to music ( cuz yeah I wuz board) then I find this album writen by StrayKids, then I listen to one song ( chk Chk boom ) and I fell in love with THEMMMM yeah

 

[BallerKai]

All the way back in 2020 when How You Like That and Dynamite blew up, I for some reason decided i hated kpop(?). Then KPDH came out, and i wanted to hate it so bad, but I ended up actually liking it. Then Ateez gets recommended to me and suddenly I'm too deep into kpop

 

[Kim Chae-Young Lizi]

I saw a random YouTube short of Lisa from BLACKPINK dancing to DDU-DU DDU-DU at one of their concerts, and I really liked the song, so I looked it up, and I let it autoplay other BLACKPINK songs. I fell in love with K-Pop for a while, stopped listening to it for a few months, and now I’m back to being obsessed with it.

 

[cyb3rc4ndy]

i got thunderous (skz) on my youtube homepage and i loved it, so i looked at their other songs and liked them too. i got into them then bts shortly after. then more groups. i think that's how it went, was a long ass time ago

 

[🌊࣪ ִֶָ☾.𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘻𝘦 ִֶָ☾.🌊]

One day in September 2025 (yes, I'm new-), I was trying to find songs that I could practice with to improve my singing, and I got recommended Stray Kids backdoor mv. Soooo I watched it, kept rewatching it for a few days lol, then finally realized that they probably have more songs than just this one, and so I searched them up and discovered more groups like Enhypen! Buuuut if we want to be technical, the first Idol I ever knew about was V from BTS because everytime I would hit ctrl c and ctrl v to copy and paste something into the search bar, sometimes I would forget to hit the ctrl button and just press v, so when I entered v he came up and I wanted to know who the heck this attractive guy was.
Also, I feel likee most people I know got into K-pop through BTS or BLACKPINK....

 

[Blackmoore82]

Back in late 1997 a friend in high school who was already an avid listener of the genre got me into K-pop. He recommend that I watch the mv for 'I'm Your Girl' by S.E.S. a week after it was released. So thanks to him and S.E.S. I got hooked.
The following year I got into Fin.K.L, SHINHWA, and Circle.

Before anyone asks how we were able to watch it on tv when Youtube didn't exist then. During that time the co-op we lived in had a Satellite dish, So everyone living there was able to watch international channels. I watched the Japanese & South Korean channels quite frequently.

 

[ohnlyhyuk]

max changmin

 

[allen 𝜗𝜚]

i remember vividly back then i used to hate hate kpop then newjeans came up on my autoplays on yt and i fell in love with newjeans and then i later branched out to other groups.. i think you can tell how i feel about the hiatus and dani's removal