SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Netflix’s monthly active users (MAU) in South Korea hit a record high in September from a month earlier helped by the Korean-made mega hit “Squid Game,” a market research firm said Sunday. The U.S. streaming giant’s monthly active users in South Korea reached 9.48 million in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of “Squid Game,” said Thursday the smash-hit Netflix series was intended to pose questions about modern capitalist society that corners people into extreme competition. “I thought capitalism has proved its own limitations in the 21st century,” Hwang said in an online speech during the SBS [...]
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 [...]