‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Songwriters Finish Oscars Speeches Backstage After Being Played Off Stage

The song has seven credited writers — EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu-Han Lee (also known as Yuhan), Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park. EJAE, who provides the singing voice of Rumi in the film, led the acceptance speech in tears. “Growing up, people made fun of me for liking K-pop, but now everyone is singing our song and all the Korean lyrics,” she told the Dolby Theatre crowd.

“This award is not about success. It’s about resilience.” When Yuhan stepped to the microphone to follow, the orchestra immediately struck up, his mic was cut and the broadcast went to commercial. The audience responded with audible boos. Backstage in the press room, EJAE made sure her fellow winners got to say what they had come to say. Yuhan thanked “our families, and 24, and our fellow IDO members,” calling it “an incredible honor.” Sonnenblick, who had been seen jumping defiantly onstage trying to speak before the group was ushered off, delivered his speech in full.

“My family, some of them here tonight — my husband is...