It was all mostly by chance, really. Waaaay back in the day I used to listen to j-rock and at the time I always heard stuff about that fandom kind of colliding and being 'rivals' in a way to k-pop (idk, i still don't get it, but yeah.) I saw some videos on youtube on the sidebar on a video I was watching and I decided to watch it and it turned out to be this k-pop group. I thought it was kind of odd at the time so I just went back to listening to what I had been. Then a year or so later, I kept hearing about SHINee all over tumblr (even J-rock fans were excitedly posting about this song. I guess it was good enough to put the rivalry aside haha) so I decided to listen to the song everyone was talking about and I was kind of hooked from there. I don't listen to a lot of k-pop, I listen to a variety of things but I still have groups that I'm attached to.