South Koreans are obsessed with Netflix’s ‘K-pop Demon Hunters.’ Here’s why

Seoul – When the South Koreans become obsessed with a film or TV series, they shorten Netflix’s last hit “K-Pop Demon Hunters”. In the media titles and in every corner of the Internet, American-made film is now universally called “keh-deh-hun, the first three syllables of the title when read loudly.

And the audience is already invading a sequel.

The animated film is followed by a fictional South Korean group called “Huntt/X olarak as Rumi, Mira and Zoey, three members.

Since its release in June, Netflix has become the most watched original animated film in the history of Netflix, and millions of landscapes around the world, including the US and South Korea, where film music is located in the melon of the local music flow platform. The fans also cleaned the souvenir shop at the Korean National Museum, which is exhausted from a traditional tiger pin that resembles one of the characters of the film.

Most of the popularity of the film in South Korea, Korean folklore, pop culture, and even national habits, a production team full of K-Pop fans, and a group of co-director Maggie Kangie Kocagie’s appearance of the local pavement, have a group of research trip to documenting details.

There are titles for the traditional Korean folk picture, Korean guide for the other world, K-Pop and daily attitudes. On a scene, at a table in a restaurant where three girls eat, audiences may notice that kitchenware is an important ritual for eating outside in South Korea, how to place the water pouring water for everyone on the table, as well as on the napkin.

South Korean music critic Kim Yoon-Ha told the local media last month. “He was able to obtain a database that would leave in any Korean awe.”

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Despite its subject and its relationship with the “K-wavy ,, the entire Korean K-Pop Demon Hunters olan, which is all this term for all Korean cultural exports, do not fully comply with the invoice in the most narrow sense.

The film, directed by Korean Canadian Kang and Chris Appelhans, produced by Sony Pictures and plays creative roles in other animated films such as “Coraline” and “Fantastic However, its popularity in South Korea is another sign that the boundaries of the K wave are increasingly fluent-and show that more diaspora Korean artist is flowing into the mixture.

These obstacles have already been shredded in music: Many K-Pop artists and songwriters are non-Korean or part of the Korean diaspora, and reflect the history of foreign influences of the species such as Japanese Pop or American Hip-Hop.

“When a cultural creation gains a universality, you cannot limit it to the limits of K-Pop today, Kim Kim Il-Joong said Kim Il-Joong “Although ‘K-Pop’ suggested, it is really a global product.”

Zoey is a rapper from Burbank in K-Pop Demon Hunters. In addition, film music has been written and realized by a team containing producers, artists and choreographers associated with the largest real-life K-Pop groups of the last decade.

Flow productions are also increasingly flying: Apple TV’s “Pachinko” or Netflix’s “XO, Kitty” are both American productions in South Korea. However, a small number of productions were able to inspire the same level as the “K-Pop Devil Hunters ğı, how accurately captured the attractiveness of many South Koreans, local respects and contemporary life.

While flying in special jets, although there is a sofa with them, three girls are shown to sit on the floor. The tendency to use the sofas a little more than the backflows is an infinite source of humor between the South Koreans and the self -fascination source, most of them accept that the seating tradition dies harshly.

South Korean fans and media, characters “Ramyeon” or Korean instant noodles pronounced correctly pronounced. The fact that Ramyeon was limited to Japanese Ramen, who was generally inspired by the invention decades decades, has been a point of anger for many South Korean and Local Ramyeon companies, which has been a point of anger, which has turned into something different since then.

This is a small difference – the Korean version is pronounced as Rah Rah Myun – – but one he pays to be in South Korea.

With Apple TV’s Sungkyu Kim, Eunchae Jung and Minha Kim, “Pachinko” is an American -made in South Korea.

(Apple)

During the flights of the girls, Ramyeon’s wishes for Ramyeon also caught the eye of the real-life South Korean Girl group Purple Kiss, a member of the film’s K-Pop artist, a member of the film.

“Normally I don’t eat ramyeon, but whenever I go on a tour, I finally eat,” he said. “The scene reminded me of myself.”

South Korean fans were also pleased with a pair of animals, derpy and Sussis. JakhodoIt is a kind of traditional Korean folk painting in which the tigers and Magpies, who were popular in the Joseon dynasty in the 19th century, were depicted side by side.

In the film, Derpy is always a Florescent tiger with glasses eyes, which always appear with his assistant, a three -eyed bird called Sussy.

“K-Pop Demon Hunters” respect for Korean artists throughout history, which has been seen as progenitors of contemporary K-Pop today.

(Netflix)

Although they had been extinct for a long time, the tigers were once a feared being on the Korean Peninsula, from time to time to terrorize the population. They were also respected as talismans that protect bad souls. But like derpy itself, Jakhodo He has redesigned the tigers as more friendly, often as funny beings. Historians interpreted this as the political satir of the period: Saksuk, who was brave in the presence of a great hunter, represented the ordinary man standing up to nobility.

The film has respected Korean artists throughout history, which has been seen as progenitors of contemporary K-Pop today. From 1939 to 1945, the “Geogori Sisters olan, a three -piece outfit, which is generally defined as Korea’s first girl group, have distinctive heads, and then the three -piece Kim Sisters, who appear in the US and appear in the“ Ed Sullivan Show.

For a long time, K-Pop fans can recognize Devil Hunters from the 1990s as a pioneer group of Girls, which have been created by SM Entertainment, as a label behind today’s superstars Aespa and Red Velvet. (SES’s main vocalist Bada has recently discussed the film’s title piece on YouTube.)

For a long time, South Korean viewers often complained of the country’s external depictions as non -original and non -contact. Not anymore.

Kim Korea has not been shown as an extra plug -in just like it has been for a long time, ”Kim said. “’K-Pop Iblis Hunters’ did a great job that depicts Korea here to recognize the audience instantly.”