Schools ban the Squid Game costume, deemed too violent
Some New York schools have banned their students from dressing up as characters from the South Korean series for the traditional Halloween party. Netflix fiction, which has become a global phenomenon, is considered too violent.
The series is not recommended for children under 17 in the United States.
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Costumes inspired by the South Korean series Squid Game are popular for Halloween, but schools in New York State have decided to ban them, deeming the hit Netflix series too violent for children.
In the United States, to mark the tradition of Halloween, children are allowed to go to class in costume for the last day of school before the celebration, which this year falls on a Sunday.
But in the Fayetteville-Manlius school district, located in upstate New York and which has six schools, including three elementary, costumes inspired by the Squid Game series will not be allowed on Friday “due to violent messages that they can inspire, ”said its superintendent, Craig Tice, in a statement sent to the media, including AFP.
A phenomenon
The series, which has become a worldwide phenomenon, features characters from the marginalized fringes of South Korea who participate in traditional children’s games, such as “1-2-3 sun”, to win a huge sum of money. But the losers are killed as the trials progress, in scenes of great violence.
–An effigy of the “Younghee” doll, from the game “1, 2, 3 sun” in the series, lying in Olympic Park in Seoul on October 26.
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In the series, all the players wear green tracksuits which make them look like prisoners, while their guards and executioners are dressed in a fuchsia jumpsuit and wear black masks, on which appear a triangle, a circle or a square depending on their rank. So many possible accessories to dress up for Halloween, and which have gone like hot cakes in recent days in a shop in Manhattan, New York, where an AFP journalist went.
