Has spring arrived early for K-culture? The animated film “KPop Demon Hunters" garnered two Oscars on Sunday (local time). One was for Best Animated Film and the other for the song "Golden," which won in the Best Original Song category. While "Golden" had already won awards at the Grammys and Golden Globes, it was the first award for the film itself. Previously, the 2019 Korean film "Parasite" won Best Picture and actor Youn Yuh-jung won Best Supporting Actress for "Minari" in 2020, helping to write Korea's Oscars history. The accolades for the animated film about K-pop are a belated ray of warm light in an arrested spring of cold days and conflict. It's not the only K-pop event for fans to look forward to, either, with the highly anticipated comeback of K-pop giant BTS this weekend. Korean cultural content has been enjoying a renaissance for some time now. But while the domestic industry agonizes over whether the animated film produced by Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation is truly Korean, the film has catapulted K-content to another level. The animation's success brought new and r