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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s sensational survival drama “Squid Game” is sweeping across New York. At the 2021 Korean Festival held by the Korean American Association of Greater New York at Union Square, Manhattan on Sunday, visitors were seen lined up in front of a stand selling Korean-style sugar candy, known as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A giant robot doll named Younghee from Netflix’s original series “Squid Game” made an appearnance at .the Olympic Park in southeastern Seoul. Younghee is the tagger robot from the survival drama’s first round, ‘Red Light, Green Light’. Netflix Services Korea Ltd., the local unit of Netflix, created a miniature [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Since the survival drama “Squid Game” gained larger-than-expected popularity throughout the world on Netflix, the world’s big-name platform operators like Disney+ and Apple TV+ have been competing to spend huge money to secure Korean-made content. But critics have raised questions whether it’s right for local productions to allow such [...]