SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean sensation “Squid Game” has posted a total of 1.65 billion hours of streaming in the first four weeks of release, becoming the most-watched Netflix content of all time. Netflix on Tuesday (U.S time) released the global top 10 lists of films and TV shows based on [...]
JEJU, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Fire Safety Headquarters is hosting a special event to raise awareness about fire safety prior to the upcoming winter season. The headquarters is posting ‘Fire Safety Game,’ a four-episode card news series inspired by Netflix’s original series “Squid Game,” on its official Facebook page and other social [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean breakout hit “Squid Game” has emerged as a big contender in the U.S. year-end awards season, possibly to become the first Korean-made TV series winning a trophy at prestigious awards ceremonies. Starting in late fall, the highly competitive race for great TV shows and movies of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean sensation “Squid Game” has reclaimed the No. 1 position on Netflix’s most popular TV show rankings to become the streamer’s top-ranking original series for the most days ever. According to streaming analytics firm FlixPatrol on Wednesday (U.S. time), the Korean-language survival drama regained the No. 1 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean phenomenon “Squid Game” has outnumbered the longtime TV powerhouse “Game of Thrones” in terms of combined YouTube views of its derivative video content, a U.S. media outlet has reported. A total of 129,000 videos of the survival drama, including official trailers, fan-made reaction clips and video [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A canceled real life ‘Squid Game’ contest will be held at a hotel in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, announced St. John’s Hotel, which had planned to host a real-life version of the popular Netflix series late last month only to be forced to cancel it due to regulations imposed by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s runaway hit “Squid Game” will be back for a second season, its writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk has said in a media interview. “There’s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season, so I almost feel like you leave us no choice, but [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Global streaming giant Netflix is considering giving an additional reward to Korean producers of “Squid Game,” as it became the platform’s biggest-ever original show, a senior official of the company was quoted as saying Wednesday. Dean Garfield, vice president of public policy at Netflix, said his company is in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A replica of the giant animatronic doll named ‘Younghee’ that appears in episode 1 of “Squid Game,” a megahit Korean series on Netflix, showed up in the downtown of Sydney, Australia. Netflix Australia installed a special set in an area between Sydney’s Harbor Bridge and Opera House where people [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — “Do It Yourself (DIY)” kits for trying out various games from Netflix’s mega hit “Squid Game” are sweeping across Germany. EasyCookAsia, a Berlin-based meal kit provider, released Korean game box this week, a DIY kit for trying out various games from the series, which has surpassed sales of other [...]