After a decade of training, she failed to debut as a K-pop artist. Now 10 years later, she’s the star of KPop Demon Hunters and her song Golden is an award winner.

The first season of “Squid Game” became the most watched show in the history of Netflix. And “KPop Demon Hunters,” which was nominated this month for two Oscars, is now Netflix’s most popular film ever, with more than 325.1 million views.

As Korean pop culture gains global attention through Netflix animations like *KPop Demon Hunters* (KPop Demon Hunters), foreign media have reported a growing number of Americans learning Korean. According to *The New York Times,

The crossover hits stacking Grammy nods this year have little in common with the culture that birthed them — but they're winning the chart game.

The story of the last 15 years of popular music can’t be told without a significant focus on the rise of Korean pop from a powerful but largely isolated industry to a border-crossing global megaforce. Starting with PSY’s ultra-viral “Gangnam Style ...