Do you remember the first time you delved into K-Pop only to quickly discover the pandora box of confusion you had just encountered? Everything from the language to the music to the clothes were a new experience, but it mostly had to do with the fact of it being foreign and you not being a native speaker. That's why you were super happy to find a community online of English speaking fans who shared your interests. But this also had it's setbacks.

As it turned out, even within the English speaking fans, there was a collections of slang, words, and phrases you didn't know or didn't use prior to entering the fandom. However, once you began using them, you can't really part with them. That's why we came up with a list of words you began using once you became a K-Pop fan.

1. "Bias"

Before K-Pop, your favorite band member was simply your favorite member. But at some point when you were looking up pictures of your beau on Tumblr, you stumbled upon the word "bias." Etymologically, this term refers to an outlook or temperament with a one-sided inclination. To a person outside the fandom, it would make little sense. But with a super big open mind, "bias" makes some sense when referring to your favorite member in a group. Or at least now it does.

2. "Comeback"

This word is common in music, alright. But when someone announces its "comeback," you imagine the Madonna albums after years of hiatus, or Britney Spears' Circus following her meltdown. Comebacks are long awaited returns to music by artists who have been gone for a while. However, in K-Pop, this merely means another release by a given act. Sure, BIGBANG's comeback will, indeed, be a comeback. On the other hand, GOT7's debut and following two comebacks this year hardly constitute as such.

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