{"id":36475,"date":"2026-03-15T19:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36475"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:39:54","slug":"how-the-kpop-demon-hunters-travel-trend-is-shaking-up-korean-wave-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36475","title":{"rendered":"How the KPop Demon Hunters travel trend is shaking up \u2018Korean wave\u2019 tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/13\/ec972437-6e04-4526-a846-62b6ec28890c_37bbb58e.jpg?itok=-JgwlHhs&amp;v=1773379306\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hawaii-based Christine Kim was an early participant in the <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> travel trend. In fairness, her trip to Seoul with her husband and children was already booked before the Netflix film came out in June 2025.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The plan, initially at least, was to visit grandparents. But then Rumi, Zoey and Mira, the movie\u2019s protagonists, became her five-year-old daughter\u2019s idols, and the itinerary got rewritten.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They visited a <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">jjimjilbang<\/em> (Korean spa) and the Namsan Tower \u2013 the setting for the rival Saja Boys\u2019 final show in the movie \u2013 giving them the ultimate bragging rights for their family trip.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMy daughter seemed to be totally shocked that the places from the movie were real,\u201d Kim says via text. \u201cShe was so excited, she was speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was not just her daughter who bought into the cultural moment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI bought my son a black hanbok [traditional costume] and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">gat<\/em> [hat] so he could be a Saja Boy for Halloween,\u201d Kim says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3346455\/how-kpop-demon-hunters-travel-trend-shaking-korean-wave-tourism?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii-based Christine Kim was an early participant in the KPop Demon Hunters travel trend. In fairness, her trip to Seoul with her husband and children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[6169,9009,498,795,3032,5058,151,7400,7156],"class_list":["post-36475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-demon","tag-hunters","tag-korean","tag-kpop","tag-shaking","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-trend","tag-wave","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}