After Gi-hun takes up the offer and wins a few games, the man then gives him a card and invites him to play similar games with much more at stake.Įventually accepting the offer, Gi-hun wakes up in an unknown location alongside 455 other people, each given a tracksuit and a number, and all of them monitored by masked guards in pink suits who answer to a mysterious man, also masked, known only as the Front Man. One day after missing a train, a sharply-dressed man approaches Gi-hun and offers him ₩100,000 if he wins a game of ddakji, getting slapped across the face every time he loses. Middle-aged chauffeur Seong Gi-hun lives with his mother in perpetual poverty, knee-deep in debt from a failed business venture and a serious gambling addiction, and struggling to support his daughter after a divorce.
Inside, a tempting prize awaits - with deadly high stakes. Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games.
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On November 9, 2021, series creator Hwang confirmed that Squid Game will return for a second season. On October 12, 2021, Netflix announced that the series drew 111 million viewers in its first month on the platform, per internal Netflix estimates, becoming the biggest launch in the streaming giant’s history.
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1 in 90 countries on Netflix's weekly most-watched TV show charts, becoming the first Korean drama to do so. Though he had initially written it in 2009, he was unable to find a production company to fund the idea until Netflix took an interest around 2019 as part of their drive to expand their foreign programming offerings. Hwang had conceived of the idea based on his own economic struggles early in life as well as the class disparity in South Korea. The title of the series draws from a similarly named Korean children's game. It was released worldwide on Septemon the streaming service Netflix. The nine-episode series tells the story of a group of people, including series protagonist Seong Gi-hun, who risk their lives in a mysterious survival game called the Squid Games for a ₩45.6 billion prize. Its cast includes Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, Ho-yeon Jung, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi and Kim Joo-ryoung. Squid Game ( 오징어게임 Ojing-eo Geim ?) is a South Korean survival drama streaming television series written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk.