The first time you heard a kpop song on national radio/television

I'm gonna assume being in Korea and hearing about SNSD on the radio doesn't count so I'm gonna go ahead and say 2012 because Gangnam Style in America.

Oppa Gangnam Style

It was 2011 when I became a fan. I was watching SBS Popasia and So Cool by SISTAR came on then I became hooked on K pop.

gangnam style

Gangman style

There was a commercial on TV and I forgot what it was advertising but it was a popular product and it was playing the instrumental of Dynamite. It really is a popular song in the USA.

The 2021 New Year countdown played Twice I Can't Stop Me and small snippets of More & More which I was super duper happy about.

Finally, I never heard a KPOP song on mainstream pop music radio but I heard it on iHeartRadio play sometimes but it was never mostly Korean songs (except I've heard Sour Candy and Kiss & Make Up), it was always Blackpink Ice Cream and Bet U Wanna (I haven't heard any of the other Eng songs of The Album) because I guess collaborations with popular western artists helped Blackpink internationally. I definitely heard Dynamite many times, it's like really popular in USA and I'm so happy about that.

I get generally happy whenever I hear a KPOP song in real life that is not from my KPOP friends irl or from me.

Gangnam Style

If we don't count this, I guess it was BlackPink's Let's Kill This Love on radio.

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There's a Samsung commercial that plays the actual song with some of the the vocals.

For me the first time was when Stephen Colbert and Rain had their "feud" and Colbert played part of "How to Avoid the Sun".

Oh, that's probably where I heard it lol. I heard that they became the new ambassadors after Blackpink (?)

Ooh, that's cool! That is a good song. A lot of the talk show hosts have had big KPOP groups perform on their shows.

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Gangnam Style

If we don't count this, I guess it was BlackPink's Let's Kill This Love on radio.

Oh yeah...definitely Gangnam Style. For some reason, I sometimes forget it's a KPOP song LMAO like it's just so out there

Ooh really? That's such a good song. Is Blackpink popular in your country? I live in the USA and they are popular but they only seem to play English songs (+ Sour Candy and Kiss and Make Up) on the radio here unless I missed it.

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Oppa Gangnam Style

Oppa Just My Style

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Oh yeah...definitely Gangnam Style. For some reason, I sometimes forget it's a KPOP song LMAO like it's just so out there

Ooh really? That's such a good song. Is Blackpink popular in your country? I live in the USA and they are popular but they only seem to play English songs (+ Sour Candy and Kiss and Make Up) on the radio here unless I missed it.

I'm not sure if they're really popular but I think many people heard their songs, although they don't associate it with South Korea or K-pop. For example, How You Like That got a bit viral on Tik Tok, I had moments during my work breaks when I would hear the chorus somewhere around me and I figured out it's because someone is looking on Tik Tok, it happened a few times. I even talked to a guy from my work about K-pop once and he has no idea about who BP is, but when I mentioned HYLT he recognized the song.

I heard Kiss and Make Up n the radio as well.

I live in Eastern Europe btw.

That macbook commercial or whatever it was when they played 2ne1 “I am the best”. I didn’t even know about kpop back then lol.

I was a kid and didn't knew about all the nationalities of Asians. So Gangnam Style introduced Koreans to me.

Dream Glow by BTS and Charli on the radio in 2019, kind of random.

first time would be hearing wonder girls' nobody on this chinese show on tv...

first time watching a performance was snsd's the boys on letterman

first time on radio was probably the boys too....but i remember gangnam style more fondly

blood sweat and tears on vh1 I guess

Dynamite was played alot of samsung ad during ipl

Nobody by the wonder girls