The South Korean series “Squid Game” has become the biggest Netflix hit in the history of the streaming service.
The production, which is the work of Huang Dong-hyuk, has become the most successful original project in the history of the super popular American platform for movies and series Netflix and costs only 21.4 million dollars, according to Bloomberg.
The series tells the story of 456 people in urgent need of money who become participants in a brutal survival game.
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Although the script was written in 2009, it failed to find a production company to fund the idea, while Netflix showed no interest in 2019 as part of a movement to increase its foreign programming. Huang himself wrote and directed all 9 episodes.
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North Korean journalists also talk about the popular show. The propaganda website Arirang Meari published an article describing the series as evidence of the decline of South Korea’s capitalist system.
“The Squid Game makes people aware of the sad reality of the monstrous South Korean society in which people are forced to engage in extreme struggles where their humanity is washed away.”says an anonymous journalist.
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This is not the first time the North Korean media has reported on its neighbors’ film industry. Last February, they praised The Parasite, which won an Oscar for Best Picture, for its “dramatic” revelation of the economic gap between sections of society.
President Kim Jong Un calls South Korean pop culture “cancer of sight” and has long banned it in his country. Persons convicted of violating the ban are punished, and distributors of banned works, according to media reports, could be executed.
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