'KPop Demon Hunters' wins Best Song at Golden Globes

"Golden," the standout track from Netflix’s animated feature “KPop Demon Hunters,” won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards Sunday (local time), giving the K-pop-inspired film one of the night’s marquee music honors. The award went to Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, Kim Eun-jae — also known as EJAE — and Mark Sonnenblick, who are credited for the song's music and lyrics. "Golden" beat a slate of high-profile contenders such as "Dream as One" from "Avatar: Fire and Ash" by Miley Cyrus and two "Wicked: For Good" entries by Stephen Schwartz — "No Place Like Home" and "The Girl in the Bubble." While “KPop Demon Hunters” is not a Korean studio production, its creative identity leans heavily on K-pop’s performance language and Korean pop culture — a mix that helped push “Golden” beyond the film itself and into the awards season conversation. The movie follows a superstar K-pop group — Rumi, Mira and Zoey, collectively known as Huntrix — who juggle stadium shows with a secret second life as