On a rainy Saturday in October at Rose Music Hall in Columbia, the weather isn’t stopping a gathering of "KPop Demon Hunters" fans who love HUNTR/X, a K-pop girl group in the film, and the Saja boys, a fictional demon boy band also in the movie.

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Kids dressed as their favorite characters are getting their faces painted, and sampling Korean cuisine made by Jina Yoo, owner of local Asian eatery Le Bao. People are dancing to their favorite songs from the hit Netflix movie’s soundtrack, and everyone is showing Columbia “how it's done, done, done,” a nod to a hit song from the film.

“It's a daily ritual for us to listen to the soundtrack every single morning on the way to school and on the way home,” said Melissa Baumann, who attended the Rose M

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