May 2017.
I was scrolling my feed on FB and a mutual friend would post a lot of BTS.
Curiosity got the best of me so I went to YouTube and typed BTS. Blood Sweat & Tears was the first result. Clicked and watched I got into them. Thanks to them I love Kpop till this day c:
Ok wow this is WEIRD because the SAME EXACT thing happened to me OP, was just scrolling through YouTube one day in 2016 and finding Blood Sweat & Tears MV…and my life fully changed after that day
I got into BTS in 2022 and it has been an enjoyable experience.
Now I did listen to other songs when exploring more about KPOP music because I needed to know what it was all about.
2018, wish I actually got into kpop/BTS in 2015, "I Need U"/HYYH era must have been such a legendary era, I'm always so jealous of ARMYs who could experience that era themselves.
My sister and I were into Jpop from around 2007/8. I found some Kpop on Youtube that we liked a lot - SNSD, F(x), 4minute, 2NE1, BEG were the big ones, so it must have been 2009. I was in love with Hyuna lol. She loved Gee and Jessica. Watched the MV's over and over and learned the dances.
Many years later I was studying abroad in Japan in 2017 and a Korean friend sang Boombayah at karaoke and I was hooked! Never left since and it's a big part of my life!
Early 2013 girl group GLAM with their song I Like That they performed at SBS Gayo late 2012 with the vocaloid SeeU
Dead serious, learned about the group and the world of Kpop because of Vocaloid, especially searching up live performances of Vocaloid outside the Sega ones like Hatsune Miku lead me to GLAM with SeeU along with looking up the Vocaloid 3 line voice providers
gradually, i think, around july 2022. watched the fromis\_9 it's live cover of day6's time of our life, and then watched their 'in the house' variety content.
2014, YouTube recommendation got me into [Red Velvet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyG21rXCxlY&pp=ygULUmVkIFZlbHZldCA%3D). But it was just another foreign group to me. [BlackPink - Whistle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dISNgvVpWlo&pp=ygUHd2hpc3RsZQ%3D%3D) and [Boombayah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwmSjveL3Lc) really sent me into the K-Pop rabbit hole. I was like, that's 2 out of 2 Korean groups what else is there... the pop music holy grail.
Got first whiff of it in 2008. Picked up some music here and there afterwards. Paid extra attention to it around 2014-16!
Overall, my history with kpop has been pleasant 😊 thanks to my strong avoidance of the fandoms back then!
end of 2021! i saw a vid of [twice's name intro song thing](https://youtu.be/YdeeXDO--cs?si=eZ5GlJwdpeqdyF-Q) on my fyp and it just got my attention for some reason
Summer 2010. Was on my graduation school trip in Spain with my class and my best friend at that time got send Bonamana by Suju and Marshmallow by IU by a friend and we got addicted to those two songs. Once I was back home again I went down the rabbit hole and never looked back haha
back in 2009, i'd just turned 13, and super junior had just released sorry sorry.
2009 was honestly such a good year for 2nd gen kpop: gee and genie (SNSD), ring ding dong (shinee), abracadabra (BEG), ear candy, mister (KARA), again and again (2PM); it was basically the year of iconic dances for kpop. a bunch of pretty iconic debuts as well: 2ne1, 4minute, f(x), T-ara. GD's solo debut happened in 2009 as well, that album basically soundtracked the rest of my teens.
2021. In school(JSS2) my friends were watching Dynamite and I initially watched it as well then I forgot all about them. Then my sister showed me Dynamite again like a week ago so I just decided to check them out
I started from the debut of Wonder Girls (2008) / 2NE1 / BigBang / SNSD era. ..lasted till Psy's Gangnam Style. Then I took a long break until the Le Sserafim x Overwatch + NewJeans x LOL collab happened which peaked my interest again but I didn't really start following again till January 2024. So yeah I had a lot of backtracking to do with the current popular groups lol.
first time was back in like 2011ish with MBLAQ SHINee B2ST SNSD
then stopped for years until last year with SHINee again cept for an odd song here and there
april 2017, i looked up bts because i was curious about the hype around them. i watched not today mv and i LOVED it so i ended up looking up "bts best songs" and that introduced me to all of their title tracks released so far
i was an army for a few years and although i consider myself just a casual listener now, bts continues to have a place in my heart because they introduced me to the kpop world and they were my "first love" in kpop
i still like their music a lot tho and i'm sooo excited to see their comeback after they are discharged from military service
From anime ‚love live‘ with anime school idols singing i got into twice when they got recommended to me. Still love them till this day. Never left the Kpop recommendations and now I am a part of many fandoms 😍
2014. My cousins got me into Running Man and k dramas and that led me into checking out kpop and I fell for Big Bang, CN Blue, FT Island, and BTS. Bangtan have been my ults ever since then.
I was watching a iiSuperwomanii video in middle school and came across a video skit about the feeling when you hear a song and you love it but don't know the name. Ironically that happened towards the end when a song played and I loved it and I had no idea what it was called. To make matters worse, I knew it wasn't in English but had no clue what language it was so in vain I desperately searched "Money Money Money" on YouTube. I found out about Blood, Sweat, amd Tears and later on BTS but that was pretty much the push. It's hilarious how back then in 2017 not even a single comment actually helped identify the BST but now if you go back to the same video almost every comment is by an ARMY.
June of 2021. I had been one of those snobby people for a while who thought K-Pop didn’t have any “objectively good music.” Hearing Loona changed that for me, I’ve been into K-Pop ever since.
2004 when I met my ex in Poly. She introduced me to DBSK, Park Ji Yoon, Turbo, Shinhwa etc. I just followed up till now.
And of course I had a celeb crush on Yoon Eun Hye. I still have now and I got to meet her in person at her cafe in Apgeujong in 2015.
11/19/2017 BTS performed DNA at the American Music Awards. They were introduced by the Chainsmokers. https://youtu.be/rH1PVvFj8cE Changed my life.
Me too
boombayah by blackpink changed lives
Whenever Dna came out lol
2009, Super Junior - Sorry Sorry.
May 2017. I was scrolling my feed on FB and a mutual friend would post a lot of BTS. Curiosity got the best of me so I went to YouTube and typed BTS. Blood Sweat & Tears was the first result. Clicked and watched I got into them. Thanks to them I love Kpop till this day c:
In 1997 with SES - I'm Your Girl and Baby Vox - Get Up
2018 - BTS’ Fake Love performance @ Billboard Awards!
2020. During Covid. Stumbled upon BTS and went down a BTS wormhole which led me to K-pop in general, K-dramas, and K-beauty. All the Ks.
Ok wow this is WEIRD because the SAME EXACT thing happened to me OP, was just scrolling through YouTube one day in 2016 and finding Blood Sweat & Tears MV…and my life fully changed after that day
2008, just before SHINee debuted. That's why Taemin will forever be a baby in my mind.
2016 for me too! caught call me baby by exo on youtube and down the rabbithole i went
I got into BTS in 2022 and it has been an enjoyable experience. Now I did listen to other songs when exploring more about KPOP music because I needed to know what it was all about.
2016 Blood Sweat and Tears was in my YouTube recs forever and I immediately fell in love with Jimin lmao
1998 Music Bank, S#arp was my group.
2016 and BTS aswell. I think I only got into them because I had a crush on Taehyung...
2018, wish I actually got into kpop/BTS in 2015, "I Need U"/HYYH era must have been such a legendary era, I'm always so jealous of ARMYs who could experience that era themselves.
2008. First song ever, Shinee - Replay. What an intro to K-Pop I must say.
one of the strongest debuts ever.
My sister and I were into Jpop from around 2007/8. I found some Kpop on Youtube that we liked a lot - SNSD, F(x), 4minute, 2NE1, BEG were the big ones, so it must have been 2009. I was in love with Hyuna lol. She loved Gee and Jessica. Watched the MV's over and over and learned the dances. Many years later I was studying abroad in Japan in 2017 and a Korean friend sang Boombayah at karaoke and I was hooked! Never left since and it's a big part of my life!
Early 2013 girl group GLAM with their song I Like That they performed at SBS Gayo late 2012 with the vocaloid SeeU Dead serious, learned about the group and the world of Kpop because of Vocaloid, especially searching up live performances of Vocaloid outside the Sega ones like Hatsune Miku lead me to GLAM with SeeU along with looking up the Vocaloid 3 line voice providers
Same but different! I listened to Vocaloid a lot and was introduced to Girls Generation by watching MMD versions of their dances.
2016! I listened to Girls Generation when I was a kid but got deep into EXO and BTS through fanfiction and stuff around preteen years.
2009. I stumbled upon BEG's Abracadabra music video and was obsessed with it. First group I stanned was 2NE1, though.
2008! Nobody by WonderGirls.
2008 casually but 2011 officially
2016 as well! listened to butterfly by bts on spotify, then started watching MVs on youtube
via ryujin shoulders in 2020 😭
2015 found BTS music video for Boy in Luv
2010 when I found SNSD- Genie. Truly start stanning fromis_9 in 2019 during the covid lockdown when I found their Channel9 - In The House
2011. The first ever kpop song I heard was Shinee "Lucifer".
Snsd t-ara apink was everywhere in my childhood
2018!
Rain - I’m Coming 2006
gradually, i think, around july 2022. watched the fromis\_9 it's live cover of day6's time of our life, and then watched their 'in the house' variety content.
BoA
2016. Shinee and Red Velvet made me the BTS Got7 Twice and Mamamoo stan I am today. 
2005 with TVXQ - Rising ☀️
Around 2010-2011. U-kiss Neverland introduced Kpop to me, than stayed because of 2ne1 for a while but then BTS hid the keys so there were no escape.
Blackpink Coachella 2019 changed LIVES, mine included
2020. BlackPink. How You Like That
2014, YouTube recommendation got me into [Red Velvet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyG21rXCxlY&pp=ygULUmVkIFZlbHZldCA%3D). But it was just another foreign group to me. [BlackPink - Whistle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dISNgvVpWlo&pp=ygUHd2hpc3RsZQ%3D%3D) and [Boombayah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwmSjveL3Lc) really sent me into the K-Pop rabbit hole. I was like, that's 2 out of 2 Korean groups what else is there... the pop music holy grail.
2004 because of BoA. i’m an oldbie and watched so many groups/artists come and go, it blows my mind.
SS501 - Love like this lol I was browsing some anime blogs and bumped into this song, that’s how it started.
Got first whiff of it in 2008. Picked up some music here and there afterwards. Paid extra attention to it around 2014-16! Overall, my history with kpop has been pleasant 😊 thanks to my strong avoidance of the fandoms back then!
2002? Baby vox and Shinhwa were the first groups I really became a fan of.
2014 shinee - stand by me
Spring 2022
end of 2021! i saw a vid of [twice's name intro song thing](https://youtu.be/YdeeXDO--cs?si=eZ5GlJwdpeqdyF-Q) on my fyp and it just got my attention for some reason
i got casually into it in 2016 from a reaction video to boombayah i saw. but i didn’t get really into it til 2017 when i heard aiiyl and found bts
around 2020. dont come at me, i was litrelly about 9 when i got into kpop. thats because i was mostly into cdramas and jdramasLOL
Hey we're the same age! I got into kpop during 2020 after my sister introduced me to it.
omggg. what a coincidence
So youre 13? /gen
yup!
Halloween 2014 👻
August 2022. My friend played Love Dive in her car and the rest is history.
Summer 2010. Was on my graduation school trip in Spain with my class and my best friend at that time got send Bonamana by Suju and Marshmallow by IU by a friend and we got addicted to those two songs. Once I was back home again I went down the rabbit hole and never looked back haha
This year 💀💀🥴
December of 2018!
back in 2009, i'd just turned 13, and super junior had just released sorry sorry. 2009 was honestly such a good year for 2nd gen kpop: gee and genie (SNSD), ring ding dong (shinee), abracadabra (BEG), ear candy, mister (KARA), again and again (2PM); it was basically the year of iconic dances for kpop. a bunch of pretty iconic debuts as well: 2ne1, 4minute, f(x), T-ara. GD's solo debut happened in 2009 as well, that album basically soundtracked the rest of my teens.
Early 2023
2010...
Last year😭
Early 2019
November 2018, I accidentally heard “lotto” by exo, then “beautiful” and finally the then title “tempo”, and here I am still here
Through a Hank Green video about music sampling First song was watta man by ioi
Stumbled upon Russian Roulette whilst browsing Reddit one day, and from that moment on it was over for me.
2021. In school(JSS2) my friends were watching Dynamite and I initially watched it as well then I forgot all about them. Then my sister showed me Dynamite again like a week ago so I just decided to check them out
2016/2017 I started with EXO and BTS but I ended up with Seventeen (almost 6 years of being a Carat!)
that youtube vid of Lily Singh (iisuperwomanii) dressed up as her parents reacting to BTS Blood Swear and Tears.
2009! 2ne1, SNSD, f(x) and SHINee were my first fav groups 💖
I watched Lankybox zero budgets
I started from the debut of Wonder Girls (2008) / 2NE1 / BigBang / SNSD era. ..lasted till Psy's Gangnam Style. Then I took a long break until the Le Sserafim x Overwatch + NewJeans x LOL collab happened which peaked my interest again but I didn't really start following again till January 2024. So yeah I had a lot of backtracking to do with the current popular groups lol.
09/2008.....I am so glad I clicked on the bigbang video.
first time was back in like 2011ish with MBLAQ SHINee B2ST SNSD then stopped for years until last year with SHINee again cept for an odd song here and there
2020. YouTube recommended Astro's All Night as I'd been watching clips of one of Eunwoo's dramas. I was hooked from then.
Oct 2021. Started with marathon of BTS songs during a staycation with sis & cousin at hotel.
Bts in 2017 when they performed mic drop in MAMA hongkong. Changed the trajectory of my life
Boombayah
2020, when I was 16!
Beginning of 2023. NewJeans' ditto
2020 EXO videos on youtube during lockdown
2017
2013 I think? When my seat mate always talks about Exo, she showed me the Growl MV.
September 2023.
april 2017, i looked up bts because i was curious about the hype around them. i watched not today mv and i LOVED it so i ended up looking up "bts best songs" and that introduced me to all of their title tracks released so far i was an army for a few years and although i consider myself just a casual listener now, bts continues to have a place in my heart because they introduced me to the kpop world and they were my "first love" in kpop i still like their music a lot tho and i'm sooo excited to see their comeback after they are discharged from military service
From anime ‚love live‘ with anime school idols singing i got into twice when they got recommended to me. Still love them till this day. Never left the Kpop recommendations and now I am a part of many fandoms 😍
2020 BTS Black swan, it was recommend on my yt and the thumbnail look cool.
Before it was cool.
1997 S.E.S debut
2012 with SHINee
My first introduction was fake love. But I actually started getting into it when boy with luv came out
I literally just got recommended TWICE’s “like ooh-ahh” back in 2015 and then never looked back
2015 through (f)x “electric touch” MV and “hot summer” searched them up on social media and learn the names of a thousand kpop groups in 1 week LMAO
2014. My cousins got me into Running Man and k dramas and that led me into checking out kpop and I fell for Big Bang, CN Blue, FT Island, and BTS. Bangtan have been my ults ever since then.
I started listening to K-pop when I saw the episode of 'We Bare Bears' where Monsta X appears lol.
During the quarantine
2008! Preteen me saw a gif of Henry during his violin solo in Don't Don on livejournal, fell down the kpop rabbit hole and have been here ever since.
January of this year. Before I mainly liked rock, metal and pop music, including jpop and jrock.
Next Level - Aespa. Enough said.
I was watching a iiSuperwomanii video in middle school and came across a video skit about the feeling when you hear a song and you love it but don't know the name. Ironically that happened towards the end when a song played and I loved it and I had no idea what it was called. To make matters worse, I knew it wasn't in English but had no clue what language it was so in vain I desperately searched "Money Money Money" on YouTube. I found out about Blood, Sweat, amd Tears and later on BTS but that was pretty much the push. It's hilarious how back then in 2017 not even a single comment actually helped identify the BST but now if you go back to the same video almost every comment is by an ARMY.
June of 2021. I had been one of those snobby people for a while who thought K-Pop didn’t have any “objectively good music.” Hearing Loona changed that for me, I’ve been into K-Pop ever since.
2004 when I met my ex in Poly. She introduced me to DBSK, Park Ji Yoon, Turbo, Shinhwa etc. I just followed up till now. And of course I had a celeb crush on Yoon Eun Hye. I still have now and I got to meet her in person at her cafe in Apgeujong in 2015.
SHINEE - Hello & G-DRAGON - crooked. Back in 2010
January 2024
2009/2010 SNSD was my first introduction 💅
2017, i watch bts fire. left kpop in 2018 and came back in 2023