Stages of KPOP idolation craziness

1. Enjoying the song
Oh that song is cool.

2. Knowing the name of the group
Hmm, who sang that song? Korean group/singer, eh? I see.

3. Found more songs by the group and listen to them

4. Watch their performances
They usually have the MV for each of their promoted songs, as well as live performances on music shows. And Korea has several of these music shows at least one in each of their TV stations.

6. Watching fanmade clips / fan recording highlighting some features of the personnel/group

This is usually catapulted by all the suggested videos to the right of the youtube vid. Clicking and clicking will bring you to more and more suggested vids and before you know it you've spent significant amount of time mindlessly watching all the suggested vids that piqued your interest.

Each member of a group usually has their own fanbase. They will call this personnel as their "bias". Amazingly, from one song performance in a show you could rely on these fanbases to each have their own recording (fancam) that follows their "bias" throughout this song! Talk about dedication.


5. Researching about the group/personnels

Read the wiki of them, googling their data, history, stories etc.


7. Watching all shows which have the group/singer as guest

Korea has several talk shows, some reality shows, etc that often invite idols as their guest.

8. Checking their official sites and fan sites for every updates on their latest event, videos, pictures everyday(/hours/minutes? xD)

Oddly I found lots of these fansites are on tumbler. I suppose it's because their
easy to share facilities? People would post some pics, gifs, vids of their idols, and other would reblog it on their own.

9. Joining their official fan group


10. Buying all of their albums, official goods


11. Donating stuffs on behalf of their group/artists

Evidence 1 Evidence 2 Evidence 3: Indonesian VIP


12. ....

To go further to the extreme you could even be their sasaeng or privates.

Writing these all I felt somehow relieved that my downward spiraling motion to the bottom of kpop fandom has not been too much yet.

However, if there's anything we could learn from these KPOP idols, it would be their total hard work. They spent years in training to achieve their position. And really lots of hours have been dedicated to it.

Each time, it's the thought of appreciation to their hard work that could stop me from continuously drooling over their pics *oops* and get back to my own work. They've come along way to make their dreams come true.

I should work as much too towards my own dreams.