Squid Game, a Korean drama, has received four nominations for the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards. It is the first non-English TV series to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Squid Game, along with The Handmaid’s Tale, The Morning Show, Succession, and Yellowstone, has been nominated for Exceptional Performance by an Ensemble in … Read more
Green tracksuits and pink jumpsuits labeled “Made in Korea” worn by characters in Netflix’s global hit “Squid Game” have proven to be a pre-Halloween bright spot for a South Korean garment industry struggling during the pandemic. Green and pink thread flew from piled spools off serger machines with loud knocking noises in a haste to … Read more
Former US President Donald Trump and the evil characters of the show’s VIPs are drawing comparisons, according to the director of the Netflix blockbuster comedy Squid Game. Hwang Dong-hyuk linked Trump to the strong elites shown in the series in a bad manner during an interview with IndieWire. “I conceived of the theories for the … Read more
SEOUL: Simple, sweet, and fictionally fatal: the stallholder who makes the traditional South Korean children’s treat featured in the global cultural phenomenon “Squid Game” — and once associated with post-war poverty — has hit a real-life jackpot. The Netflix smash hit series features a group of South Korea’s most marginalised and deeply in debt, who … Read more
The Korean or Hallyu wave has been sweeping Pakistan for some time, but the current smash Netflix show Squid Game is at the forefront of it all. While the show’s premise is brutal, it has inspired some humorous memes from netizens who have come up with desi interpretations. For its mind-boggling plot twists and captivating … Read more
Squid Game, the director of the record-breaking Netflix series from South Korea, has spoken out against rumours that the show was plagiarised. Hwang Dong-hyuk, the show’s director, has denied claims that the series was a rip-off of Takashi Miike’s 2014 Japanese film, As The Gods Will. Several fans had pointed out similarities between the two … Read more
A South Korean woman who received thousands of prank calls and text messages after her phone number was highlighted as a key plot point in Netflix’s hit show “Squid Game” may soon be relieved. The phone number appears on a cryptic invitation card given to potential players of a series of deadly children’s games, and … Read more
Netizens couldn’t help but notice the striking parallels between the new Netflix show Squid Game and the Bollywood film Luck as soon as it premiered. Fans have recently claimed that Bollywood was the first to approach the theme in 2009. Many people have pointed out that the series and the movie share a similar narrative. … Read more
