“Kpop Demon Hunters” Writer Criticized For “Copying” And Then “Ignoring” Popular K-Pop Group

The writer of the Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters has been accused of “copying” and “ignoring” a popular girl group.

The film has sparked major reactions worldwide, being covered and spoken about by K-Pop idols.

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Recently, IVE‘s Liz, Rei, and Gaeul joined the trend and surprised fans by dancing to “Golden” but with their own choreography for “I AM,” which netizens sensed was similar to the concept and tune.

IVE dancing to 'Golden' by HUNTR/X. pic.twitter.com/YoPx8Tf8CL

— Kpop Charts (@kchartsmaster) July 13, 2025

Netizens noticed that the creator had RT and shared posts about many other idols’ covers from the film, including BTS‘s Jungkook, ACE‘s Park Junhee and AlexA (now known as Kim Seri), and idols on M Countdown.

As a fan of the kpop demon hunters movie, its really disheartening to see that the creator is straight up ignoring the fact that they so clearly took inspiration from ive for golden and yet they were never mentioned, and she rt's everything except ive's cover

— diana 🦄🪽 (@applejaguaryves) July 16, 2025

her chronically-online self completely ignoring this should tell you everything you need to know 😹😹 https://t.co/7E1fK1Se7Z pic.twitter.com/vG5kVAuJdq

— lyiv 💒🪽 (@dearxpriest) July 16, 2025

Many also pointed out that IVE could have been shading the show as the similarities between IVE’s songs and concepts to those in the movie are obvious, but how much worse it is considering that the writer didn’t acknowledge IVE’s version.

Not just the sound of song either but the visuals during the song https://t.co/UQp54Byunh pic.twitter.com/E1k1GY0OEo

— diana 🦄🪽 (@applejaguaryves) July 16, 2025

oh…💀 pic.twitter.com/lnnrt8FwAq

— ִֶָ (@girlsontopdive) July 17, 2025

A straight up copy https://t.co/aIxNxXBVmx

— grace 🍂💘 #ive_korea’s pride (@ivechan1234567) July 17, 2025

They really don’t want to acknowledge IVE at all even when IVE members themselves used that song for Tiktok challenge,other idol talking about it and some dives really really need to stop gaslighting other dives to not speak about that…

— 장투녕 fan (@for_everjangwy) July 17, 2025

While some netizens think it is “too far,” IVE fans don’t agree.