Opinion | Why ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is a Good Movie - The New York Times

Ms. Hong is the author of “The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture.” I initially didn’t intend to watch the Netflix blockbuster “KPop Demon Hunters,” an animated film about a K-pop girl band that must save its fans from a group of demons who have taken the corporeal form of a K-pop boy band, as any clever demon would. I had no reason to believe it would be to my liking, let alone culturally relevant to anyone anywhere near my age. Just because I sometimes write about K-pop doesn’t mean I want to hear it. The film contains so many things I normally hate, including juxtapositions seemingly for juxtaposition’s sake, e.g., hey, wouldn’t it be hilarious if cute, leggy cartoon Asian girl idols slaughtered monsters? I did not particularly care to find out what manner of cultural self-extinction, whitewashing and watering-down the largely North American production had to tolerate in order to appeal to the masses. And yet, when I did watch it, I foun

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