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Reddit K-Pop | Share and discover Korean music. K-Pop (Korean popular music) is a musical genre consisting of pop, dance, electropop, hiphop, rock, R&B, and electronic music originating in South Korea. In addition to music, K-Pop has grown into a popular subculture, resulting in widespread interest in the fashion and style of Korean idol groups and singers. Founded 2009 · 3.9M members

3.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.6K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.9Mmembers
20.6Kbest post
4.7Kmost comments
1.7Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

61% 13% 12% 12%
Video 61% Image 13% Gallery 12% Link 12% Text 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

[Teaser] 336 [News] 174 [MV] 145 [Variety] 122 [Behind-The-Scenes] 112 [Live] 93 [Dance Challenge] 61 [VLOG] 55 [Event/Tour News] 52 [Performance] 48

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

[Breaking] Singer and actor Sulli found dead

↑ 20.6K 💬 2.2K link 2019

Goo Hara has been found dead at her House at 6pm by Korean police

↑ 17.1K 💬 1.4K link 2019

Cocona of XG comes out as transmasculine non-binary, reveals top surgery

↑ 12.7K 💬 744 image 2025

Dreamcatcher have earned their first ever music show win with "MAISON" on MBC M Show Champion (220420)

↑ 12.5K 💬 1.2K image 2022

Spotify removes a huge number of KPop tracks

↑ 11.7K 💬 2.3K text 2021

All 12 Members Of LOONA Are Now Free After Haseul, Yeojin, Yves, Olivia Hye, and Go Won Win Their Lawsuit Against BlockBerry

↑ 11.2K 💬 505 link 2023

BTS Jungkook & Jimin have been officially discharged from military service today

↑ 11K 💬 249 image 2025

YG to leave YG Entertainment

↑ 10.5K 💬 1.3K link 2019

Shinee Jonghyun died in Chungdam

↑ 10.3K 💬 1.4K link 2017

In an Instagram post, former AOA member Kwon Mina reveals she left the group because she was bullied for ten years and considered committing suicide

↑ 10K 💬 1K link 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/kpop, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/kpop?
r/kpop ("Reddit K-Pop | Share and discover Korean music") describes itself this way: K-Pop (Korean popular music) is a musical genre consisting of pop, dance, electropop, hiphop, rock, R&B, and electronic music originating in South Korea. In addition to music, K-Pop has grown into a popular subculture, resulting in widespread interest in the fashion and style of Korean idol groups and singers. It was founded in 2009 and has 3.9M members.
How many members does r/kpop have?
r/kpop has about 3.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.7K of its posts; the biggest reached 20.6K upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/kpop?
"[Breaking] Singer and actor Sulli found dead" reached 20.6K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/kpop.
What subreddits are similar to r/kpop?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/kpop?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are video posts and 13% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/kpop?
Across 1.7K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 07:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 04:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/kpop?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/kpop has 7.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 325 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/kpop, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.