[Young journalist Siwon Lee] The media of the US focused on the popularity of ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’, animated film. Although it is an animation, it has captured the attention of American parents. 

New York Times (NYT) introduced some examples of parents who are into ‘KPop Demon Hunters’. 

According to NYT, Sylvia Cruise (41), a mother of five children aged 2 to 13, said that she had negative feelings about the animation at first, but she likes it so much that she watched it more than 12 times.  

Cruise said the song of the animation is very catchy and was the reason she kept watching She said ‘The melody is very delicate and rhythmic that makes her unintentionally dance’. 

Another example is Chris Man (43), a content creator and a father of two sons, ages 4 and 8, said ‘When something becomes a global trend, it is hard to ignore and KPop Demon Hunters is the example of 2025’. 

With these interview, NYT pointed that KPop Demon Hunters has connecting concepts in unique. 

NYT also compared the animation with ‘Encanto’ and ‘Frozen’ and said that KPop Demon Hunters is achieving the cultural impact like those previous animations did. 

NYT is focused on the point where the animation is getting more popular, which contrasts to the others as it is making a comeback. 

According to Nilson Data, the animation had a streaming time of two hundred fifty million minutes in the first week. The streaming time increased more than 4 times than before and went over 1 billion minutes. 

NYT noted that the songs in KPop Demon Hunters like “Golden”, “Your Idol”, and “Soda Pop” entered the Billboard Top 10, showing the global popularity of the animation and growth of Korean cultural export. 

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