{"id":489560,"date":"2026-02-19T06:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489560\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:36:13","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-taps-south-korean-culture-to-fuel-global-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489560\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;KPop Demon Hunters&#8217; taps South Korean culture to fuel global phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260218N Golden Globes KPop Demon Hunters\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Maggie Kang, center, with fellow &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters&#8221; director Chris Appelhans, left, and producer Michelle Wong at the Golden Globes awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on Jan. 11. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>NAMI MATSUURA and REI NAKAFUJI<\/p>\n<p>February 19, 2026 05:10 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL\/PALO ALTO, California &#8212; The animated megahit &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters&#8221; is powering a new, broader wave of international enthusiasm for things South Korean, adding to the already considerable momentum built up by K-dramas and K-pop music itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maggie Kang, center, with fellow &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters&#8221; director Chris Appelhans, left, and producer Michelle Wong at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,2331,56418,134,35431,3141,182246,12440,9976,136,247436,8080,247435],"class_list":{"0":"post-489560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-demon","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fuel","14":"tag-global","15":"tag-hunters","16":"tag-korean","17":"tag-kpop","18":"tag-music","19":"tag-phenomenon","20":"tag-south","21":"tag-taps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}