{"id":655296,"date":"2026-05-08T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655296\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:18:11","slug":"maggie-kang-creator-of-kpop-demon-hunters-receives-key-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655296\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Kang, creator of KPop Demon Hunters, receives key to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The creator of the Oscar-winning animated\u00a0film\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters now holds a\u00a0key\u00a0to the\u00a0city\u00a0of Toronto, where she grew up.<\/p>\n<p>After taking part in a panel about the film&#8217;s success at Departure Festival,\u00a0Maggie\u00a0Kang\u00a0was surprised on stage by Mayor Olivia Chow.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor spoke about the Korean-Canadian filmmaker&#8217;s accomplishments and how her story will inspire generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Kang\u00a0did not speak after being handed the\u00a0key, but posed for photos with Chow and Cindy Gouveia, the president of her alma mater, Sheridan College.<\/p>\n<p>Since its release, KPop Demon Hunters has become Netflix&#8217;s most-watched\u00a0film\u00a0of all time. It&#8217;s spawned a record-breaking soundtrack and is greenlit for a sequel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the panel, the writer and co-director of the worldwide sensation teased the next\u00a0film.<\/p>\n<p>Kang\u00a0said she will put just as much pressure on herself as she did for the first one, and create a movie that she wants to see.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Thursday,\u00a0Kang\u00a0is expected to receive the cultural innovator award at the Departure Honours gala.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-655296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}