Any K-pop fans here?

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by mdo7

Given that K-pop has now grown big and more high profile and mainstream these days, I would like to see this thread get revived to talk about the latest craze in K-pop news, industry, etc....

I hope to see this grow again.

Wow, that's a helluva profile picture to go with for a thread resurrection lol.

Did you see them in concert recently?

I think K-Pop has grown immensely in the last decade or so since this thread started. I think my first awareness of K-Pop like many was probably Gangnam Style but i didn't see it as more than a meme moment at the time. How funny to think now that my regular playlists are full of K-Pop from BTS, Twice, Le Sserafim, Stray Kids, Ateez, New Jeans and a bunch of others.

The fact they also have a lot more music now with an internationally catchy beat and English promotions with proper translations available probably helped a lot. It actually also helped the K-drama wave moved in tandem and some of my favourite foreign shows to now watch are the K-dramas.

Japanese anime was probably the biggest dominating thing i had exposure to beforehand though and the J-pop songs from there probably make it a much easier transition too into K-pop.

I made this thread below as a general discussion type place but looks like this section doesn't get much traffic except specific threads, so it's basically been a ghost town with no replies after mine.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=373341

[mdo7]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Wow, that's a helluva profile picture to go with for a thread resurrection lol.

Did you see them in concert recently?

I think K-Pop has grown immensely in the last decade or so since this thread started. I think my first awareness of K-Pop like many was probably Gangnam Style but i didn't see it as more than a meme moment at the time. How funny to think now that my regular playlists are full of K-Pop from BTS, Twice, Le Sserafim, Stray Kids, Ateez, New Jeans and a bunch of others.

The fact they also have a lot more music now with an internationally catchy beat and English promotions with proper translations available probably helped a lot. It actually also helped the K-drama wave moved in tandem and some of my favourite foreign shows to now watch are the K-dramas.

Japanese anime was probably the biggest dominating thing i had exposure to beforehand though and the J-pop songs from there probably make it a much easier transition too into K-pop.

Regarding me, I became a K-pop fan in 2013 (and I still am, although many thing are keeping me busy from knowing the full news coming out of South Korea). Funny you mentioned anime because I've been in that fandom since 2006. So yes, it's the best of both worlds.

I didn't see Twice, but I have seen other K-pop act in concerts and music shows.

My first K-pop act I saw in concert was B.A.P in I believe 2013. I went to a KARD concert in 2017 (just one year before I moved from MD/DC to Texas). But here's a cool treat, I took a trip to South Korea in 2014 (2nd year of being in the K-pop fandom), and I went to a M! Countdown music show, I saw:

BTS (before they became famous and a household name in America)
Girls Generation/SNSD-TTS
2PM
Teen Top
Spica

I wasn't allowed to record the performance at M! Countdown, but 2 of SNSD member touched my hand after the performance, and I died after the 2 touched my hand. So yeah, that's my love of K-pop right here. Hope you enjoyed my stories.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by mdo7

Regarding me, I became a K-pop fan in 2013 (and I still am, although many thing are keeping me busy from knowing the full news coming out of South Korea). Funny you mentioned anime because I've been in that fandom since 2006. So yes, it's the best of both worlds.

I didn't see Twice, but I have seen other K-pop act in concerts and music shows.

My first K-pop act I saw in concert was B.A.P in I believe 2013. I went to a KARD concert in 2017 (just one year before I moved from MD/DC to Texas). But here's a cool treat, I took a trip to South Korea in 2014 (2nd year of being in the K-pop fandom), and I went to a M! Countdown music show, I saw:

BTS (before they became famous and a household name in America)
Girls Generation/SNSD-TTS
2PM
Teen Top
Spica

I wasn't allowed to record the performance at M! Countdown, but 2 of SNSD member touched my hand after the performance, and I died after the 2 touched my hand. So yeah, that's my love of K-pop right here. Hope you enjoyed my stories.

That's pretty awesome. I didn't probably listen in earnest to K-Pop until around the pandemic stuff although i had been made aware of BTS around i think 2017 when they did a Fortnite collaboration. I wish i had been a bit less biased in terms of the aesthetics they went for which made me averse to it and judging it as a "Girls are the main ones just watching/listening to this genre" and whilst it's still very much dominated by a certain type of fan, i appreciated it a lot more.

BTS had a concert in the UK in i think 2018. Wish i had been more active but my first ever concert was Twice in 2023. It was going to be Michael Jackson way back in 2008 but he had an untimely passing.

I'm hoping to see BTS in their next UK concert once they've all got out the military and hopefully around 2025 onwards.