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About Squid Game
Squid Game is a television series brought to the audience by South Korean screenwriter, producer, and director Hwang Dong-hyuk – a director best-known for his 2011 Netflix drama Silenced. The title of the series is inspired by a South Korean game called Squid. Young children mostly play Squid. The game’s name comes from the fact that the game board resembles the shape of a squid. The South Korean series starts with a competition in which 456 participants participate. The most exciting part of the contest is that all participants are struggling financially and are in dire need of money. The contest has a cash prize of 45.6 billion won.
The creator of the series Hwang Dong has disclosed that he had struggled a lot financially, and he has tried to illustrate his financial struggle through the work of actors and actresses. The television series was broadcasted in September 2021. Lee Jung-Jae portrays the character of the protagonist. Lee Jung is featured as an alcoholic father who has taken money from several people and whose wife has left him alone. He takes part in the contest to earn enough money to make himself financially stable and obtain the custody of his daughter, who is about to leave the country and settle in the USA alongside her step-father and mother.
Park Hae Soo plays another important character. Park is depicted as a junior of Lee Jung. Park participates in the game to earn money to return it to the people whose money he has stolen. The series is loaded with hundreds of interesting characters struggling to win the competition. Squid Game is considered the most-watched television series in 94 major countries globally, and it has been accredited with the most-watched series on Netflix. More than 1.6 billion people watched the series in the first month of release. Squid Game has won the Gotham Award for the Breakthrough Series.
