This weekend, if you notice someone wearing over the top fits and carrying backpacks or handbags with brightly-colored stuffies dangling off of key chains, chances are you’ve just spotted a K-pop fan.

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.

Look out, KPop Demon Hunters, as South Korea is also planning to release an animated feature inspired by the K-pop music genre, Rainmakers. Attached to the project is South Korean filmmakerLee ...