Hi there, I'm from Germany. If someone had told me about 1 year ago that I'd love K-Pop in the same way as I love Rock and Metal (especially because I'm surely not the youngest member here), I had spent the rest of the day with taking my temperature.
I rarely listened to Western Pop Music and I wasn't interested in K-Pop at all. The few things I knew about K-Pop was the 'facts' the German mainstream media mostly told me about K-Pop: Only teenagers listen to K-Pop, All K-Pop groups sound nearly the same, All K-Pop Idols get exploited and pressured by the labels, all K-Pop Idols are just 'puppets' of the Korean music industry and the music producers.
One night I searched for new interesting Metalcore bands and stumbled over the YouTube channel of Chase Carneson. And there was his video review of 'Piri'...
This Dreamcatcher song was interesting, and I continued listening to more Dreamcatcher songs. At some point between 'Good Night', 'Deja Vu', 'Scream', and 'You And I' I fell in love with this band. I never heard anything like that before, but I want more. And I searched for more bands that sound like Dreamcatcher. I didn't find one (today I know that this band is unique). But there was this Rabbit hole ... and I fell deep down. And this 'tough' guy, normally listening to hardest Metal sound, didn't want to go back.
I watched the 'K-Pop Evolution' series at YouTube and - to be honest - I listened to more K-Pop songs than Metal songs during this year.
Sorry, I already wrote too much in this introduction.
If you are interested: I'm InSomnia. My first bias was Everglow's Aisha... but then came SuA.
Sorry, my English could be better. If you don't understand my gibberish, feel free to ask. Thanks.