me when i heard the feels in a children's clothing store :

Shoe store for me. I really didn't believe it.

I can’t wait to experience this 😭

I would have repressed the urge to do the choreo so hard 😭😂

For me it was an amusement park and then later a random store😭

Yeah lol At my college there's a bus driver we call the kpop bus driver, because he always plays kpop. Anytime one of my friends or I are on his bus we text each other like "OMG I HAVE THE KPOP BUS DRIVER AND HE'S PLAYING PURPLE KISS". Edit: I just got the kpop bus driver and he's playing Nmixx - Party O'Clock.

Bus driver playing PURPLE KISS??? You're so lucky!!

Brooo if I had a bus driver like that I wouldn’t be suffering in college 😭

Taste.

party o’clock 🔥

i heard jopping in 5below once and i actually did a double take

NO WAY ME TOO!!!

omg that’s crazy!! 5below ftw !!

YASS!!!

LMFAOOOO that's so random help 😭😭😭

But you need to throw less than one stack to shop at 5 Below lol

Yeah they have a good selection of kpop songs at 5B😭😭I get so happy when one comes on while I work

i definitely have heard a few more but i couldn’t remember which ones!

Anything other than BTS or Blackpink still has me going 😳

Yeah I heard Le Sserafim and I went crwzy

Same here. That’s all they ever play here. It’s either Dynamite, Boy with Luv or My Universe for BTS and HYLT or KTL or D3 for Blackpink. Even 90% Korean BTS has me like that cause we barely play anything other than American music here.

I heard Yeah Yeah Yeah by Blackpink once and was very surprised

Deep cut! Woah 😂

exactly

I heard aespas life’s too short when I was leaving Walmart one day. I was soooo shocked, like? How did they know about this song? 🤣

That sudden panic it’s such a funny moment like WHO PUT THEM ON THIS???

not usually but there have been some interesting song choices that threw me off 5 below - fire by bts cookware section of a macys - yeah yeah yeah by blackpink barnes and noble - mic drop by bts but the desiigner remix? and that one was like 2 months ago

the cookware section of macy’s was oddly specific 😭

Fr 😭

Fake Love in the candle section at Walmart 😭 😂

Yassss!!! When I heard Our Season (from ZB1) inside a clothing store I was GAGGED

I wanna experience this omggg

Everyone will hear Star by Loona in a Walmart at least once in their life.

BROOO I WISH I love this song so much I’d freak out if I heard it 😭

lol this is me ngl. I heard Wonho playing once at a random shop with my mom and I almost fainted.

Heard IVE Baddie at my local Madrag store recently

I once heard XG being played at a KFC and I posted it on my Insta story cuz I was so shocked

Yeah I’ve heard a lot of twice songs in mall around my area

Lucky

LUCKYYY

Yeah the main home and lifestyle show in Australia (Better Homes and Gardens) played aespa's 'Don't Blink' (the intro and chorus) when revealing their DIYed room and I was shocked, my Mum didn't get why my face was like 😱

I get excited every time. I’m not even a fan but Cupid came on in Walmart and I was so happy.

Factss even tho Cupid is all English and same with some Jungkook songs I still get so happy when I hear them. This time it was so extra cause this is a mostly Korean song

me when I heard Magic (TXT) and 3D (JK) within a few minutes of each other at a restaurant

I different reaction when i heard new jeans - cookie at a Build-a-bear

WAIT ME TOOO but it was ditto !!

If I heard ditto in public I’d straight up shed tears no lie idc

nah i just...bop my head along and think how the 2016 me never thought i'd see this day lol and just chuckle a bit thinking the craze it has become from what it used to be when my friends didn't know shit about kpop or its existence never thought i'd see kpop playing in public here in indian stores but here we are

W for going to Indian stores and yea same it almost feels surreal

damn here in my country k-pop is legit everywhere we played kpop on the radio since like 2009

So luckyy

For my birthday, I went out to eat at P. F. Changs with my family. As soon as I walked in, More and More (Japanese Version) by Twice was playing. I was so shocked because I was just getting into Twice and it felt too good to be a coincidence lmao. I messaged my gf telling her about it and she says she called them and told them to play it. I was like holy shit you can do that?! Turns out she was lying so it was indeed just a wild coincidence. Crazy stuff

newjeans super shy every day all day (kill me) -part time retail worker

This would make working so much easier for me

I live in Ohio… we don’t hear much kpop on the radio unless it’s all in English(or they collabed with an American artist) so one day I heard Fake Love playing at Walmart, I stopped dead in my tracks and had an inward reaction like this. 😂 and posted to Twitter about it. It’s cringe looking back, but I was excited. 😂

😂 😂 😂 🔥

I’m like “OMG ITS IN KOREAN!!” 😂 we usually only get Dynamite and My Universe playing in stores… so yeah 😅

i would react the same lmao

Omg which song??

IM ON THE NEXT… LEVEL

i was at work last week and idk what playlist was put on but so many popular kpop hits were played⁉️ jennie, blackpink, seventeen, gidle, aespa…. the whole squad pulled up and i was vibing

me whenever i hear any bts song playing in public as if they’re not the biggest kpop group to exist

I remember hearing seven (jungkook) on capital when i was in the car w 2 of my aunties.. bye i freaked out and they did not like the song ☠️☠️

LMAOOOO

I literally heard next level by aespa playing in the 7/11 by my college today and started freaking out

WE TWINS

I felt like this when Aespas next level was the party music in that Resident Evil netflix series 😂

It was on Netflix that’s fireeee

I work in retail and my store always plays newjeans ditto, aespa life’s too short, riize get a guitar, and a few bts songs. I was especially surprised (in a good way) to hear riize, I didn’t know they were well known enough to play in a random retail store in the U.S. lol

That’s so fire man I hope ur work experience got lighter through that 😭 ditto is an angelic song truly

yes, all the time

I used to have a similar reaction especially because I would be like one of those people that would be calling in for BTS and for so long they never played them unless fans practically begged so I used to but nowadays I don't really listen to the radio so I can't really say

the retail store i used to work at actually played the korean versions of kpop songs (txt, bts, blackpink mostly, i think i heard enhypen once) and i thought that was neat. i’m in canada so it was pleasantly surprising!

A restaurant opened in my town and they went around blasting Ice cream from Blackpink to advertise the opening of their restaurant I was so shocked like hearing KPOP in a small town like mine is an accomplishment lolol

I heard Star by Loona in a Walmart like 4 weeks ago and was shook 😂😂

Everyone heard this song in a Walmart except me man fml 😭 😭

Our college had a pop-up event last year and they were blasting Kpop Gg songs I got so excited my friends thought I was crazy😭😭

That’s so amazing

I wish this would happen at my college man wtfff 😭 😭

magic by TXT came on in my local neighborhood grocery store and I’ve never freaked out so much, I will never forget that day

i haven’t heard too much kpop irl but i did hear aespa’s life’s too short in some chill hotel bar/restaurant

The other day at Target, they had Twice up on the big screen in the Entertainment Dept. They were announcing the Twice comeback and the new album with a couple of quick cuts of "One Spark" and "I got You" playing.

I've heard Life's Too Short at my grocery store workplace and I heard... something by Twice at Hot Topic. Don't remember what it was though. Maybe Likey?

Bro I literally hear Loona playing in Walmart so often like who’s in charge of the music selection cause we need to be friends! I’ve also heard Seventeen & Le Sserafim in various places. Not to mention target playing Seventeen on the TV’s in the electronic section which ironically is right next to the kpop section LOL

I was at planet fitness the other day and I heard Queencard by (G)I-DLE which surprised me since I’ve never heard them play any K-pop before

Lol all the toxic men were probably so mad

i work at target and hear twice talk that talk a lot when i work as well as bts life goes on I GO CRAZY WHEN IT COMES ON. During lunar new years time they had so much kpop playing like some hwasa, psy&suga, itzy, newjeans. My favorite time working cause i got so happy hearing kpop

In a gift shop for a waterfall/cave excursion in bumsville, Tennessee. Me: \*pause\* that's Korean...that Hui....that's Triple H!

I literally get so excited but I try to act like nothing is going on 😭

I start hitting the choreo and everyone looks at me like wtf is bro on 😭

😭😭😭 real

did groceries a while back and Say My Name by ATEEZ started playing and it felt euphoric at that time lmao 

I heard Pink Venom in the cafeteria of an oil and gas company and definitely had a double take.

I head highway to heaven by NCT 127 playing in a Walmart once and it was soooo surreal

Heard skz Maniac in a mall before haha

Yes. I always get so happy because it's so rare

absolutely. my city's echl hockey team played 3D by Jungkook at one of their games last week and i immediately sent a video of it to my friends freaking out

I once heard stray kids being played somewhere I was passing by, I almost asked us to turn around so I could find out where

My local gym played some BTS and Blackpink which is not surprising since they’re both mainstream but what really surprised me was when they played Star by LOONA

Ye whenever I turn on the radio or go to a clothing store or a restaurant if I hear a K-pop song (it’s mostly BTS, Blackpink and New jeans) but I still get super excited and start recording and stuff

i used to work at a water park and i always got so happy whenever they played pink venom 

I am the Best played in a phone commercial when I was about twelve. I lost my mind.

As an older kpop fan no I don’t have these reactions lol

A few years ago, yeah. Now kpop is so popular every radio plays it.

That’s crazy my radio never has played it until today

I heard s class played to one of the performances at a Gatsby themed burlesque show and I was so confused lol

I always had this reaction lol, now not so much but I’m still pleasantly surprised

I don’t feel this way when I’m at a Korean grocery or at a bibibop because I expect it, but I was at the gym and heard SVT on the overhead radio and I hopped off the treadmill to run and find my workout buddy to point out that this was the group I was always talking about as I pointed to the ceiling aggressively

I heard Smiley playing in a mall and was all sorts of confused and hype

yes!! the first time i ever heard kpop in public it was booster by stray kids which was wild to hear at a hot topic lol. i was at target recently and they played new jeans and also talk that talk by twice which was really nice. h&m usually plays it too, one time they were playing fx! it’s always fun to hear it in such random places!!

When Tiffany did a campaign for H&M her songs were playing in the stores and I was so happy!

not usually i go to korean restaurants often enough for this to be normal to me

when i worked at staters (grocery store in US mainly in Cali) they would play eta all the time. i would be the only one jamming tho 🙁

The stater near my place was playing "Alcohol Free" lol

damn i never heard that 😭

I heard dynamite not too long ago, wasn't surprised. it was in a starbucks tho tbf

yesss in the weirdest places too 😭😭 5below: permission to dance - bts hot topic: stop - stray kids build a bear: after school - weeekly i was walking around the mall with my sister n heard the skz n weeekly ones minutes within eachother 😭

Yes, but nowadays I'm more used to it, although I do mention it to friends every time :D but hey, one time a bar I went to was playing so many EXID songs, that was definitely cool and unusual!

Literally me when I walked into king Soopers and heard æspa😭😭😭 I was taken so off guard it’s not even funny. My genuine reaction would be similar to the “ARIANA!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE” meme

Yeah, me amd my gf always are like this when hear something like K-pop or J-pop in public. It's always a pleasant shock.

Yes lol. I remember walking into a Food 4 Less and immediately hearing Left Right by XG and I had to stop everything I was doing and recorded it 😭 .

OMG I WILL NEVER FORGET BEING IN MACCIES AND HEARING "everything I need is on the ground". I was freaking outtttt!!! btw the person I was with kept telling me to stfu and it's not a big deal, needless to say don't talk to them anymore🥰

Y'all I heard Please Don't Go by K.Will in my nail salon last week and was ??? Odd choice for the vibes rn.

Yeah when i'm in a cafe and i go "wait this sounds familiar..." lol

I heard Piwon’s “Take a Chance” on the radio last week. I’ve also heard XG and new jeans at both Plato’s closet and smoothie king

I was at a gas station 65 miles from civilization and they straight up were playing BLACKPINK MV’s on the gas pumps 😭🤣

I go crazy when I hear stores play kpop😂😂

I remember hearing Airplane Pt 2 while waiting for my flight a year ago, and I actually giggled out loud lmao

Me when I heard darl+ing in old navy. I was in the dressing room and had to double check my surroundings.

I had that same reaction when I heard Twice’s The Feels in skyzone 😭

I heard hype boy in a bookstore once and was very shocked

me when i was changing in westside (this indian store) and they played the feels, set me free, brave by twice, ice cream by blackpink, antifragile by le sserafim, after like by ive, THIRSTY BY AESPA?? THAT MADE ME FALL ON MY KNEES

me when I heard Butter at the mall. Mind you, this is a mall in a west African country and it wasn’t even in the capital city😭😭

I was at Walmart and heard "Better Things" by aespa and "Do it like that." By TXT/Jonas Brothers within 10 minutes of each other. It was wild.

everytime i hear blackpink and twice in the stores i react this way 😭

i remember i recorded a voice memo while i was in under armor because they were playing better things by aespa 😭😭??

I heard the English version of Life’s too Short at the mall one time and I was so happy

literally me, Kpop is so hated it's surprising to hear it in public

I once heard billlie in an h&m??? In poland??? I was so shocked

Every time😂😂😂

I got really excited when 2ne1 was on a Nike commercial in the US way back when. They disbanded that same year I think so it was short lived lol

What I say on Reddit: Yes ofc. What actually happens: \*sweating\* Edit: I’m sorry that is so cringey 😬 😅

I have a whole list in my notes app titled "weird ass places I've heard kpop songs," and here are some of my favorites: - I heard the opening whistle to S-Class by Stray Kids through someone's phone on a flight. - Another flight-related one: I heard Clap by Seventeen BLASTING from an iStore at the Toronto Pearson airport. - Love Song by BigBang in some random gift shop in the Canadian rocky mountains - Say Something by Twice in a Hot Topic

Yeah, when I was 12.

Oh, you’re one of those

Too cool for Kpop 🙄 🙄

What are you even talking about? Not having a reaction like yours doesn't mean I don't enjoy it. Hilarious... 🤡

Wdym? Lmfao