Discovery Channel is getting in on the KPop Demon Hunters craze in a very unique way — a new Shark Week special starring two of the film’s actors. The special, KPop Shark Heroes, is set to premiere during this year’s Shark Week, scheduled for late July, and is hoping to change minds after recent shark attacks off the Korean peninsula.
While the actual demon hunting gang of K-pop idols are not involved, the special finds host Ken Jeong, who plays Bobby in the animated feature, “determined to reshape the perception of sharks across East Asia and around the globe,” according to a press release. Rei Ami, the singing voice of Zoe in the Oscar-winning film, joins Jeong, as the “Golden” singer is apparently a longtime lover or sharks.
In the special, Jeong makes it it his mission to launch a public awareness campaign that “educates, empowers and shifts the narrative” around sharks through the “power of K-pop.” It’s unclear exactly how K-pop plays into the show, but it’s safe to say they’ll be no demons to fight in this one. It’s also, perhaps unbelievably, not K-pop’s first collaboration in the shark world. Boy group Enhypen were in Baby Shark’s Big Movie as shark-ified versions of themselves and even released a song “Keep Swimming” for the Nickelodeon film.
