{"id":36642,"date":"2026-05-08T03:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/36642\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:13:24","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-maggie-kang-receives-key-to-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/36642\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters: Maggie Kang receives key to Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The creator behind the Oscar-winning animated film \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d now holds a key to the city of Toronto, where she grew up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After taking part in a panel about the film\u2019s success at Departure Festival, Maggie Kang was surprised on stage by Mayor Olivia Chow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The mayor spoke about the Korean-Canadian filmmaker\u2019s accomplishments, and how her story will inspire generations to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kang did not speak after being handed the key, but posed for photos with Chow and Cindy Gouveia, the president of her alma mater, Sheridan College.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/72HYJN3NNZDKRFF57JFHQEZ7EI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Best Animated Feature Maggie Kang, from left, Chris Appelhans, and Michelle L.M. Wong, winners of the award for animated feature film for &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters,&#8221; pose in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since its release, \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d has become Netflix\u2019s most-watched film of all time. It\u2019s spawned a record-breaking soundtrack and is greenlit for a sequel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier in the panel, the writer and co-director of the worldwide sensation teased the next film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kang said 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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Later on Thursday, Kang is expected to receive the cultural innovator award at the Departure Honours gala.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TPBFWYQXZWFCEN3CDXLSWQFURY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>This image released by Netflix shows characters, from left, Mira, Rumi, Zoey in a scene from &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters.&#8221; (Netflix via AP) This image released by Netflix shows characters, from left, Mira, Rumi, Zoey in a scene from &#8220;KPop Demon Hunters.&#8221; (Netflix via AP) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Craig Macrae, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The creator behind the Oscar-winning animated film \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d now holds a key to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[407,2136,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-36642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ontario-quebec","10":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}