The popularity of the horror-survival series is seeing people getting inventive with cosplays and recreating the children games in the show — from the Dalgona candy challenge to Red Light and Green Light.
Sensational Show – South Koreans
Why South Koreans are bemused by the global success of “Squid Game”?. Squid game is a Korean series released last month internationally on Netflix. This series is the latest obsession for those who love Korean drama and like to watch thrill stuff and gain popularity quickly.
Needless to say, but this Korean series had been trending on the internet for so many reasons, but the leading cause is prank calls. Squid Game tracks the story of hundreds of cash-strapped players who accept a strange invitation to complete children’s games.
Inside, a tempting prize awaits-with deadly high stakes. Directed and written by Hwang Dong-hyuk.
Phone Numbers In Squid Games Lead To Prank Calls
After the confirmation from Netflix, few resources reported that the phone numbers that appear in Squid Game would be edit.
The correspondent said that one person claiming to be the owner of the phone numbers shown in Squid Game had informed a local publication about being blitz with so many calls and texts. From Seongju, a woman received prank calls and messages, and as her number was her business account, she wanted to change the number.
South Korea has the fourth-largest economy in the world. Has established a vibrant and sensational pop culture, including the seven-member boy band called ‘BTS‘.
Squid game, named after a typical Korean schoolyard game, go around with a group of debt-ridden losers, an unemployed gambling addict, Pakistani migrant labour and a Korean refugee. All dressed in green tracksuits similar to those worn by Korean people during school sports. And supervisors were dressed in black masks and hot-pink jumpsuits.
One contestant in the scene declares that how ruthless life has been to them. He said that I would rather stay here and die trying than die out there like a dog. It took a brief span for them to turn on each other as well, and their overnight subsiding in violence and confusion makes for one of the most blood-curdling orders.
There is unwarranted brutality, several nail-biting moments, and some genuinely petrified revelations still; this makes Squid Game go far off a textbook survival display-template are the short moments of camaraderie the contestants share.
Lee-Jung-Jae played the role of a simple-minded person while helping Gi-Hun with simplicity, and it was the Park Hae-soo as the sharp-witted Sang-Woo who fascinated. Another fantastic performance came from Ho-Yeon; it was her debut in Korean drama.
If her portrayal of the mysterious Kang Sae-Book was anything to go by, a star was born. She played her role effortlessly, and some of the scenes from the series belong to her.
In short, she did justice with the part she got. And another contestant Ji-Yeong had a good equation with her and provided some emotional stuff to the drama.
For such an outlandish and brutal premise to work, the technical things need to be first-class, and Squid Game well and honestly pulls out all the stops. The cinematography here raises the tone of the drama; it is consistently unsettling and bordering on inquisitive.
Music in the background also adds creepiness but never threatens anybody, and a very warm thank you to all those elements for coming together in one frame.
The show never finds the need to resort to cheap jump scares; there’s enough craft here to unnerve audiences.
I hope this article helpful to you to know why South Koreans are bemused by the global success of “Squid Game”?.
Here’s to hoping a second season is a green light before time.
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