SEOUL – Cup noodles and shrimp chips featuring Huntr/x members are flying off the shelves. “Golden” is playing on loop at insurance offices and gyms. Dance studios are teaching moves from the animated film.
The American-made Netflix movie “KPop Demon Hunters” has taken this nation – which put the K in K-pop – by storm.
South Koreans have joined the global fandom for the flick, shortened here to “KeDeHun,” which follows three young women who make up a K-pop band called Huntr/x and use their music to protect the world against evil and fight the BTS-like demon boy band from hell, the Saja Boys.
On a recent afternoon here, two men dressed as Saja Boys were walking around near Bukchon, one of the areas of Seoul featured in the movie. (They were, in fact, not demons; they were promoting a loc