Who created Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters? Meet Maggie Kang
Netflix and Sony are already planning a sequel to the film about fictional K-pop girl group Huntr/x – but who is the brains behind the operation?
For now, attention is focused on how KPop Demon Hunters is going to perform during awards season, with critics predicting an Oscar win on the horizon. “All the awards would be great,” Kang, 43, mused in her conversation with the BBC, “but I think we feel really incredible about what the movie has done already. So it feels like we’ve kind of won in a way.”
Read on to know more about Maggie Kang.
What’s Maggie Kang’s background?
Maggie Kang spent the first five years of her life in South Korea where she was born, before her father’s work took the family to Canada. She grew up in North York, Toronto, but would return to South Korea for her summer holidays.
She was also a fan of K-pop music from a young age. “I remember hiding my K-pop albums from my white friends because they thought it was weird and silly,” she told the CBC, emphasising that her peers’ opinions about Korean music did not stop her from enjoying it.
She graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in animation.