409 - The Strange Symbolism of K-Pop Demon Hunters: Shame, Attention, LGBT, Jung
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, I watched K-pop Demon Hunters, and now we're going to talk about it. |
| 0:05.8 | It's very odd because for several weeks now, people were sending weird messages on the |
| 0:12.8 | symbolic world Facebook group, and then on Twitter and different places, people were trying |
| 0:18.0 | to get my attention on this K-pop demon hunters. And, you know, I often get |
| 0:23.4 | weird requests for weird anime series and stuff like that. And I usually kind of, you know, |
| 0:28.9 | don't really pay attention. But then these requests started to get more and more. And I was like, |
| 0:33.3 | what is this movie? And then someone on my team who, to be fair, has a very young daughter, said, you know, |
| 0:41.0 | Jonathan, you really should watch this K-pop Demon Hunter. |
| 0:43.9 | Everybody's talking about it and you need to talk about it. |
| 0:47.9 | So anyways, I was traveling. |
| 0:50.1 | I had a bit of time and so I decided to watch it. |
| 0:53.5 | And I have to say that I was, first of all, I was surprised. |
| 0:57.3 | It was well put together. |
| 0:59.1 | It was a good animated movie. |
| 1:01.8 | In some ways, it seems like Sony with the Spider-Man Spider-Verse series. |
| 1:06.0 | And now with this movie is definitely outshining Disney in terms of quality. |
| 1:11.0 | The movie was well written. |
| 1:12.4 | The characters were interesting. |
| 1:14.3 | You know, just that is almost enough now because everything is such drivel everywhere. |
| 1:21.2 | So, but I guess people were mostly interested in what does this have to do? |
| 1:25.8 | Why are there these demons? You know, is there something |
| 1:30.1 | interesting, some interesting symbolism to look at? And the answer is, of course, yes, with some |
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