Netflix has released the official choreography video for “Your Idol”, the Saja Boys’ soul-stealing number from KPop Demon Hunters, and the clip had passed 1.4 million views by Monday, November 2, three days after it went up on Friday, October 30.
The video runs three minutes and 26 seconds and credits the routine to K-Tigers, the South Korean taekwondo performance team, and names five dancers in the description. Ha Seong Jin leads the list, followed by Lee Ok Hyun and Kim Tae Sung, with Roh Jun Seo and Kim Seong Hyun completing the line-up.
It completes a set. Netflix put out the “Golden” choreography last week and the “Soda Pop” routine soon after. “Your Idol” is the third release, and the first built entirely around the film’s villains.
Why the villain song is the one worth learning
Our view: this is the strongest of the three dance drops because the costume does half the storytelling. In the film the five demons perform “Your Idol” at Namsan Tower in black hanbok and horsehair hats, the look of the jeoseung saja, Korea’s grim reaper. Co-director Maggie Kang has said that image was one of the project’s earliest ideas and had never been tried in animation.
The music was built to match. Songwriter Ejae has said she drew on Christian hymns and on Exo’s “Mama” and “Obsession”, reversed audio from “Hunter’s Mantra” for the intro and stacked harmonies to suggest a cathedral. Danny Chung, who voices Baby Saja, put the contrast plainly in an interview published in December: “‘Soda Pop’ was sinister in secret, and ‘Your Idol’ was sinister in your face.”
Ha Seong-jin of K-Tigers choreographed “Your Idol” for the film and also worked on its fight scenes. He has said he “decided to weave taekwondo elements into” the Saja Boys’ routine so the martial art could come across as “something aesthetically powerful” rather than only a sport. That is the thing to watch for in the new clip: kicks and stances that sit inside a boy-band formation.
The chart run explains Netflix’s timing. “Your Idol” reached number one on the US Spotify chart dated July 3, 2025, the highest placing ever for a K-pop boy band, ahead of BTS’s “Dynamite”. It peaked at number four on the US Hot 100 and number five on the UK singles chart, and it is certified platinum in both countries. Netflix says the film itself has passed 670 million views with 63 straight weeks in its global top 10.
A Badiyaa calculation: 1,438,654 views divided by three days is roughly 480,000 views a day, below the pace of “Soda Pop”, which passed 1.29 million in its first two days.
What the clip gets right, and what it leaves out
The smartest choice is restraint. Five dancers, one routine, no cutaways to animation, so anyone trying the steps can follow the full count from start to finish. The description is also unusually complete on credits, listing the writers, producers and the five singing voices, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and samUIL Lee.
The gaps are in context. Netflix credits K-Tigers as a group and never says who arranged this studio version, where it was shot, or whether it matches the film’s blocking beat for beat. The clip is also 15 seconds longer than the 3:11 single, which leaves room for an intro or outro around the song, and the full soundtrack cut is more than half as long again as the film version, so viewers who know only the movie scene will meet an unfamiliar middle section.
There is a tonal oddity too. The song is written as a demon boy band seducing a crowd into handing over their souls, and critics have read it as a jab at obsessive fan culture. A how-to dance video that invites fans to copy the Saja Boys move for move sits a little awkwardly beside that message, even if it is exactly what the fandom, known as the Pride, has been asking for.
The timing is not accidental either. A sing-along cut of the film is back in cinemas from October 31 to November 2, and the Criterion Collection edition arrives on Blu-ray and 4K on Tuesday, November 3, with a launch event at The Grove in Los Angeles on November 8.
Further reading
- Wikipedia: Your Idol
- Wikipedia: KPop Demon Hunters
- Badiyaa: Netflix posts official 'Soda Pop' dance from KPop Demon Hunters
- Badiyaa: Netflix posts official 'Golden' dance from KPop Demon Hunters
Image: John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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