How Did You Fall In Love With KPOP?

Hi ^^

Suddenly I felt like I want to write this. How did I end up being a fan .

As I remembered, I started to love kpop when I saw kpop mv. Maybe Super Junior, Bonamana or Sorry Sorry. I don't quite remember. Actually, I used to be Justin Bieber's fan. It was back in 2009, when I started fangirling over Justin Bieber. But when I watched Beast Bad Girl MV, I was attracted to Yoseob, but still I like Justin Bieber.

In 2012, I got my first smartphone. You know what, when you got smartphone, you feel like you can do anything. So, I started to download Beast show. Getting know them better. That when I started fangirling over them and little by little, I started to forget JB ( JB crisis was about to start at that time. He started to dating ang got into problem)

I watched Exo mv, mama  for the first time in 2012. My first reaction was like ' What's wrong with this group?  Do they have to make this creepy mv?  ' Started from that time, whenever I heard or saw Exo, I felt irritated. I thought I was like an antifan. Hahaha.....so funny.

The funny part is in 2013 or at the end of 2012,  I watched Mnet music show. I saw Exo performance of Wolf. Little by little, I realised that every week, when I watched that show, I was waiting for their performance. At that time, I was little by little getting to know them through fanfics.

That when I started to search on them, memorizing their name,getting know them, read their fanfics and watched their show until I completely became a fan. I also influenced my sister to like them. 

I had important exam in 2013 and after that I have my long holiday. During that holiday I became so active as a fan. 

I continued my study in 2014 right after Kris left Exo. I do felt down but my routine make me busy and I started to ignore it. I became less active but still updating my fanfic at aff. Ah, I joined Asianfanfics in 2012. The first fanfics I read was a fanfic from rasyaSH. Beast fanfics. And blame me, I thought it was a true story ( the story is about Yoseob who had cancer I guess).

As a fan, other than exo and beast, I used to memorize the names of all members of btob, 4minute, super junior, f(x), shinee, infinite, nu'est, girl's day, sistar, boyfriend, b1a4, mblaq, big bang, 2ne1, bts, astro, vixx, 2am, teen top, tasty, alphabat, cnblue,jyj, tvxq. Maybe there some kpop groups that I know one or two or most of the members. Like knk, monsta x, exid, aoa, t-ara, after school, 4ten, 2pm, zea, ukiss,kara, ft island,a pink, got7. I'll just memorize all the members name if I was so into their song. 

Right now, I was into Bts. I was started became a fan noona when I got to know Jungkuk bts. Hehehe....he is younger than me by one year. This day, as many kpop group debuted, they became more younger. The new group,Varsity, the youngest is from 01's batch. Astro maknae is 99's batch.

Sometimes I was thinking, will I become like g.o.d, sech kiss and other older groups fan?  

So, how was your first experience?  

*I make a new insta account back in 2014 but lost it. Now, I found it back. So, do follow me @avianytime 

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Overdose_Kpopers
#1
I still remember when im just a 11 years old girl, my friend introduce me to EXO. I was EXO's hardcore fangirl back then and then I saw BTS videos I started to follow them! It's such a weird to watch BTS from nothing, dork boys until now, grown, famous men! Hahahaha XDD Then I started to follow Beast, VIXX, 4MINUTE, Girls Day and many more! Now my top 3 ultimate group are B.A.P , BTS and ____ (still searching for the right group XD)
zulaikhazairul98
#2
i remember the first kpop song i heard was 2NE1's 'I Am the Best'.. i asked my friend abt it at school & i grew to like the song.. but it was the only kpop song tht i knew.. i only started getting into kpop in 2014 after i watched mcountdown with my friends.. before then, i kinda had a hatred for kpop XD i disliked the way some of my classmates would talk abt EXO (they were quite popular in school back in 2013) like A LOT.. i was a huge fan of 1D so yeah.. i didnt even know who the members of those kpop groups were, i just knew their group names.. then i watched SJ-M's 'Swing' & immediately fell for the song :D and that was how i became an ELF until now :) my bias are kyuhyun & donghae :) then i started becoming an ARMY after watching BTS' 'Boy In Luv'.. i immediately fell for V & Jungkook :D

after tht, i learned to accept kpop & started watching music shows here and there.. i watched korean variety shows, music programs, etc. one thing i really like abt kpop is the dancing, so mostly i watch vids of dance practices and such :)

so there u hve it :D basically i was a kpop hater turned lover XD and now i think i've been so into it even more than i listen to english songs XD don't know if i'll ever stop getting into kpop tho :) prob never :D
RavenUchiha
#3
Then, at the time, my co-worker who likes K-Pop, told me about a new group that popped up called GOT7. At the time I REALLY didn't want to get into another group. I was fangirling over Shinhwa. She told me to check out GOT7, they are cute. So, I went home and watched them. At the time it was "A" and I think "Girls Girls Girls" was coming out. OMFG! I fell head over heels for them. And guess who became my bias? Mark. Why? Because he speaks English and he's from California. Well, Jackson was right up there with Mark.

Soon, I started to like other groups, now I'm getting into VIXX, and I recently saw an episode of Weekly Idol with Sech Kies. OMG! Are they cute and again, they are around my age. I am sooooo happy to find singers who are my age, instead of being TOO young. Seventeen is another group that I'm slowly getting to know, but I'm still a newbie on them.

So, anyway, that's my LONG story of how I fell in love with K-Pop, and it's going on about 11 years I've been a K-pop fan. Geez, time flies.
RavenUchiha
#4
Well, actually my first time with K-Pop actually started with from BoA. But, it wasn't from K-Pop, it was from an Anime called Inuyasha. BoA did a song called "Every Heart". I fell in LOVE with that song. I didn't know she was Korean. So, I looked her up and found out she is Korean. So, at the time I was watching Anime music videos that people created using songs from popular music groups (mostly they were American groups). For some reason, as I was searching, I saw in my recommended Super Junior "Sorry Sorry". I never heard of them before. So, I clicked on it and fell instantly for them. My favorite was Kyuhyun...still is.

Anyway, after Super Junior, that is when everything started to go crazy. At one time, there was a website where the administrator showed how to dances from different songs. I started knowing certain groups from this website. Sadly, the website was apparently taken down, because I couldn't access it anymore. That's how I started to know about B.A.P, Nu'est, Infinite, Big Bang, Brown Eyed Girls, Super Junior, SHINee, TVXQ, BTOB, BTS, C-Clown and others.

So, I had to find other ways to know about new songs and videos. Facebook showed a little, but I noticed many of them through YouTube. I started getting into BTS. Now, normally when I look for a bias, I pick the ones that can speak English, but in BTS, it ended up being Jungkook. Now, suddenly it's starting to change to Suga. Anyway, I saw the video for Shinhwa's "This Love" and instantly fell in LOVE with them. Junjin became my bias. I also found out they are my age, well about 2 or 3 years younger than me.
Purple-Peng
#5
This might be a bit hard for me to remember but I guess my first interest in KPOP started with BOA Kwon, Younha, and DBSK. Although for BOA and Younha, I mostly listened to their Japanese songs because I like the way it sounded in the language. With DBSK, I saw their video for Mirotic which led to Hero being my main bias. It’s funny that the only song of theirs that I still listen to is Mirotic although I also listen to Thousand Year Love Song.

I have a tendency to switch something that caught my interest so I kind of lost interest in KPOP. It wasn’t until I discovered MNET on my Verizon FIOS that I started obsessively listening to more KPOP.
Let’s see if I can list the ones that I actually remember although this isn’t the exact order that I started when I listened to KPOP:
Wonder Girls, 2NE1, INFINITE, 4Minute, EXO, BIG BANG, F(x), BEAST, Girls Generation, T-ARA, SHINEE, SISTAR, SECRET, CNBLUE, UKISS, SS501, IU, and Lee Hi
So far that’s all that I can remember unless there might have been others that I forgotten about.

Then I started the trend again of losing interest and my interest in KPOP started again in 2016 when I notice that I keep seeing three certain members of EXO: Kris, Luhan, and Tao in movies or dramas. So I did my research and discovered they weren’t part of the group anymore but I still love listening to EXO. I guess you could say that EXO is the top of my bias list of KPOP groups since their songs are the only ones I’ve been listening to lately. I’m now listening to the EXO songs that I never got to listen to. Monster has become one of the songs that I am listening on loop, the lyrics and choreography had taken over my mind and I can’t stop listening to it or watching it.

Although for some reason my younger sister seems to be trying to get me to listen to BTS. I get the feeling that she started listening to KPOP again but the only ones that I am now listening to is EXO.
exocat15
#6
my friend was a kpop fan and i got pissed with her always talking about exo so im like fiiiiine what's so good about them and fast forward one and a half years later i have become a kpop fan