22 Facts About Squid Game

Squid Game is a South Korean survival drama television series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix.

Netflix is developing a reality competition program based on Squid Game, featuring 456 players competing for a large cash prize.

Squid Game spent his free time in a Manhwabang reading Japanese survival manga such as Battle Royale, Liar Game and Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji.

Song "Way Back Then" that accompanies children playing Squid Game, Jung wanted to use instruments that he practiced in elementary school, such as recorders and castanets.

Squid Game takes a fresh idea and spins it into a thrilling drama; we hope it continues to build the tension we saw in the last 20 minutes throughout the season.

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Netflix estimated that Squid Game had drawn over 111 million member households worldwide after 17 days of availability, and over 142 million member households after 28 days, surpassing the 82 million that Bridgerton had received in its first 28 days in December 2020, and becoming the service's most-watched series at its launch.

The diversity of the characters that play the Squid Game, drawing from different walks of lower- and middle-class life, helps draw audiences to watch as many could find sympathy in one or more of the characters.

For four consecutive weeks, Squid Game remained as the most watched series on TV tracking service TV Time, where it became the most followed Korean series to date.

On YouTube, Squid Game related content generated views within eight weeks, the highest for a television show, surpassing the viewership generated by Game of Thrones related content in ten years.

Nielsen reported that Squid Game was the second-most watched original series in the United States on streaming services for all of 2021, following Lucifer.

Squid Game was considered one of the latest examples of the Korean wave, the growing trend of popular South Korean media to gain international attention since the late 2010s, similar to popular Korean pop bands like BTS and Korean dramas and films like Parasite.

In South Korea, the popularity of Squid Game led to a surge of network traffic which caused SK Broadband to file a lawsuit against Netflix, seeking monetary damages to pay for increased broadband usage and maintenance costs associated with the program.

Netflix claimed that Squid Game had "pierced the cultural zeitgeist" and became a popular Internet meme, with over 42 billion views of videos related to Squid Game in the first month after broadcast.

Analytics firm Vobile stated that by November 2021, views of Squid Game-related videos on YouTube had surpassed 17 billion views, surpassing that for Game of Thrones.

Parents and school boards in Quebec, Canada and in the Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District of New York have observed young children emulating games from Squid Game and taken steps such as warning parents and banning such activities from school grounds.

Squid Game has been accused of plagiarizing the 2014 Japanese movie As the Gods Will, as both involve children's games where the penalty for losing is death.

Squid Game's has been subject to harassment by fans of Squid Game who "thought [she] took the account from the show", with some fans attempting to hack into her accounts.

Hwang wrote Squid Game based on his own personal experiences and observations of capitalism and economic class struggles within South Korea.

Several journalists observed that Squid Game effectively used foreshadowing in alluding to the deaths of the major characters and other elements of the series.

Squid Game acknowledged that he had been inspired by Japanese comics and animation, including Battle Royale and Liar Game.

The quality of the subtitles of Squid Game opened debate about Netflix, and other services looking to expand their libraries with international works, to give more effort to the subtitles and closed captioning quality in order to better capture meaning of the original language.

Squid Game did not have well-developed plans for a follow-up story and said that if he were to write one, he would likely need a staff of writers and directors to help him.