KoreaBoos. Korea’s lovers. Wannabe Koreans.

There are many names one can give to this phenomenon. 
koreaboos, korealovers, oppa gangman style, nerds, koreancrazed, other weeaboo. 

But  "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and whatever you want to call it, one thing is for sure Koreaboos are on the rise.

If you’ve been following the Korean entertainment industry, it’s 99% likely you’ve come across some of these specimens. So...

What is a Koreaboo and what's wrong with being one?

Koreaboo – Someone with usually very high and delusional images/perceptions of Korea. They tend to

  

• Be really involved in K-Pop, K-dramas, K-Varieties, pretty much K-everything!!

• Have very little social interactions in the real world. No friends that they can actually high five :/

• Idolize Korea and anything to do with it (ohhh Koreans don’t poop, they release rose petals when they go to the toilet)

• Be very immature and usually in their teen years (Not always, but in most cases)

• Deny they are Korea’s boos (Me? No, I’m not Koreaboo oppa-ya)

• Say in more than one instance they wish they were Korean (Why can’t I be in Korean and stalk oppa in peace?)

• Always make excuses to argue that Korea and Koreans are better than other countries/places  J (Even their own! This is what makes them more detestable to me -_- have some love for your country you little shits)

• Want to move to Korea and marry oppa/unnie/ ANY Korean!! (Ohh my dream is to be in Korea, marry a Korean, and have Korean babies, and of course go to the toilet and release rose petals as a true Korean would) ;)

• Hate on their own countries/people because compared to Korea, they are total low-class and not cute at all compared to all the Koreans who happen to be perfect.

So now that you’ve been able to identify a Koreaboo let’s go into the next question

What leads to someone to become a Koreaboo?

•  First of all there can be many and unique reasons for this to happen. Many have to do with the fact that many of koreaboos are still kids (<18). So it should come as no surprise that they are easily impressed, and can over-generalize any new trend they discover on the Internet. Age definitely plays a factor on becoming a Koreaboo from what I’ve seen before. After all, tween and teen year are a very susceptible and impressible age to be in.I’m pretty sure there are adults in the Koreaboos bandwagon (If you are one, what are you doing with your life?!), but most of them are just immature kids who still need to grow up and get out a little more.

• Second, a lot of these kids are socially lacking meaning that they might be more of the introvert/nerdy/lonely type. That is why when they find a new sub-culture, they become so attached to it. This can be seen with many other subcultures such anime lovers, star-wars nerds, etc. I find it that a lot of these people burying their entire lives into a fandom are people with very few/zero real-life friends that can take them out of their trance. This is why when they find a ‘new world’ online, they completely immerse in it.

• Third, they have had a hard time immersing in the society that they are in. Even if they have friends, they feel like they don’t fit in, or feel a constant uncomfortable feeling inside regarding their social skills. Most Koreaboos have no life outside the internet and live very secluded lives. Perhaps they go to school, and say hi to some people, but most of their free time is spent in their room alone with their computers as their only friend. Koreaboos tend to spend all their weekends in their rooms watching Korean dramas, variety, MV’s etc. Dreaming away to the day they are finally found by their fav K-Pop star

Again, factors vary person to person, but after days of research and years of reading koreaboos testimonials and of course my own brief experience as a koreaboo I can tell you that most of these are at least partially correct.

So are you a koreaboo? If you are, what are the reasons that made you one? Let’s gather some data here for future generations ;)