Why 'KPop Demon Hunters' is everywhere
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
'KPop Demon Hunters' is one of the biggest movies on Netflix. It’s also an Oscar nominee that’s spawned chart-topping singles. How K-pop and K-culture became an irresistible global phenomenon.
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| 0:34.1 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi. |
| 0:46.3 | We're about to play a song from last year, but you know it, okay? |
| 0:52.3 | Or if you don't know it, |
| 0:54.8 | I guarantee that either your kids, |
| 0:57.8 | your nieces, |
| 0:59.4 | your nephews, |
| 1:01.2 | your kids' friends, |
| 1:03.6 | one of your neighbors, |
| 1:05.9 | maybe even your own friends. |
| 1:07.5 | Someone in your life knows this song. |
| 1:10.5 | We dream and how we came so far. your own friends. Someone in your life knows this song. |
| 1:32.1 | Okay, we've got heads nodding to the beat in the control room. You are probably singing this out loud, |
| 1:37.8 | belting it out at home right now. I resisted the urge to do that here in front of this microphone because my kids would disown me if I did, but that song is most definitely golden, the hit single from the movie K-pop Demon Hunters. |
| 1:47.2 | Now, this movie is a worldwide phenom, but it took creator Maggie Kang seven years to get the project off the ground. |
| 1:54.5 | For years, I waited for a project like this to come along that I could contribute to. But it never came. |
| 2:01.8 | And so by the time I felt like I had developed my skills enough, my writing skills, my comedy |
| 2:08.9 | skills, my storyboarding skills, my filmmaking skills, and I felt confident to step into |
| 2:15.0 | the directing role, I thought, well, I guess nobody has done this yet. |
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