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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk (left) and stars Lee Jung-jae (centre) and Wi Ha-jun at a fan gathering in Lucca, Italy, ahead of the release of season 2 of the hit Netflix K-drama series. Photo: Instagram/@luccacomicsandgames

Why Squid Game 2 will be ‘more intriguing’, according to show’s creator

Squid Game’s creator talks about what will set season 2 apart when it arrives on Netflix in December, and a possible English-language version.

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Indian director sues Netflix, says Squid Game ‘rip-off’ of his 2009 film

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Can Squid Game season 2 halt Netflix’s Korean viewer decline?

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Why Korean actor Park Sung-hoon, of The Glory, Queen of Tears, is on the up

Korean actor Park Sung-hoon, fresh off two villainous turns in popular dramas The Glory and Queen of Tears, talks about getting his name known, and his coming turn in season two of Squid Game.

Park Sung-hoon, fresh off two villainous turns in The Glory and Queen of Tears, talks about making his name known and his coming turn in Squid Game. Photo: Imazins via Getty Images

3 Body Problem piracy in China shows some American shows can still break through

BitTorrent downloads topped 90,500 on the first day of release, far surpassing those of other popular Netflix series like Squid Game and Stranger Things.

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Star of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ found guilty of sexual misconduct in South Korea

O Yeong-su, 79, has been found guilty of sexual misconduct, a local court said on Friday, after he was charged with assaulting a woman in 2017.

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Squid Game: The Challenge – Netflix K-drama spawns nail-biting reality show

Netflix reality survival show Squid Game: The Challenge uses the hit Korean drama as inspiration, pitting track-suited contestants against each other in a nail-biting series of elimination games.

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A still from “Squid Game: The Challenge” season 1. Photo: Netflix

Strong Girl Nam-soon: Lee Yoo-mi stars in childish Netflix K-drama spin-off

Netflix’s Strong Girl Nam-soon starring Squid Game’s Lee Yoo-mi is a cartoonish spin-off that looks set to fall short of Strong Girl Bong-soon, the classic K-drama it is based on.

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South Korean actors in Netflix K-dramas want better pay too

South Korean actors in Netflix dramas want the same as striking Hollywood actors – better pay, and residuals. So far Netflix, which outsources the production of its Korean shows, is not responding.

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K-drama casting latest: Squid Game season 2 confirms new additions

Season 2 of Netflix Korean drama Squid Game will include new cast members Im Si-wan, Jo Yu-ri, Park Gyu-young and Park Sung-hoon, while Lim Soo-hyang and Ji Hyun-woo could be leads in Beauty and the Devoted.

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Park Gyu-young in horror series “Sweet Home”. She has joined the cast for season two of Netflix K-drama hit “Squid Game”.

Who are the 4 new cast members starring in Squid Game 2?

Netflix’s Squid Game was such a huge hit that it propelled several relatively unknown Korean actors to global mega-stardom – will these 4 already-impressive new cast members find the same success?

Meet the four Korean stars set to appear in Squid Game 2 – Im Si-wan, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ha-neul and Park Sung-hoon. Photos: Getty Images, @boxabum/Instagram

The ‘Netflix Effect’ launched K-content to superstardom. But is it paying off?

Korean shows are hugely popular on Netflix, but calls are growing for the government to support locally funded projects and secure the rights for content amid concerns about its effects on the local market.

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Review | No Heaven, But Love: Lee Yoo-mi back to indie roots in touching queer drama

Squid Game and All of Us Are Dead star Lee Yoo-mi plays a waitress who begins an affair with Park Soo-yeon’s high-school athlete in director Han Jay’s touching tale of young love set in 1990s Korea.

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More Malaysians learning Korean as K-wave continues to take world by storm

Korean is one of fastest-growing languages in world, sometimes ahead of Mandarin; ‘enjoying Korean drama, movies, K-pop might be a way people cope with stressful lives’.

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Malaysian teacher Nura Ezzatie (front), who teaches Korean, with some of her students. Photo: Handout

Netflix hit Physical: 100 wins audiences with ‘wholesome’ yet brutal contests

The new reality television show pits 100 contestants of different genders against each other to see who is South Korea’s strongest. Insiders say it could become as big as ‘Singles Inferno’, ‘Squid Game’ or ‘Parasite’.

South Korean car dealer Jo Jin-hyeong, a contestant on the new Netflix show “Physical: 100”, poses during an interview in Seoul. Photo: AFP

Inside Squid Game and Lancôme star HoYeon Jung’s beauty and fitness regime

As a top model turned K-drama actress, Korea’s HoYeon Jung has accumulated several beauty and fitness tips to live by, from face massages to ballet – here’s how she always looks so flawless

Hong Kong VR start-up bets on immersive Squid Game experience to drive expansion

Start-up Sandbox VR has partnered with Netflix to bring its hit South Korean drama to life in immersive, hi-tech facilities.

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Decoy: unconvincing K-drama mash-up of con artist and murder thrillers

Jang Keun-suk, last seen in 2018’s Switch: Change the World, and Heo Sung-tae (Squid Game) star in Decoy – a brooding tale of police and con artists.

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Jang Keun-suk as detective Gu Do-han in a still from Decoy, a K-drama mash-up of con artist and murder thrillers.

‘Squid Game’ star charged with sexual misconduct

Actor O Yeong-su has been indicted without detention for allegedly improperly touching a woman’s body in 2017.

Who is Lee Jung-jae’s girlfriend, Daesang Group heiress Lim Se-ryung?

She may be gaining spotlight for walking hand in hand with her famous hubby on the red carpet, but Lim Se-ryung has been making waves herself, away from showbiz …

Squid Game star on show’s Emmy win and how K-cinema attained global clout

Lee said South Korean cinema spent years to figure out how to connect better with global audiences through stories about the violence of modern life.

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South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 15. Photo: AFP

Emmys 2022: Netflix Korean hit Squid Game’s history-making night

Show about a deadly game of survival picks up best dramatic actor and best drama series directing prizes to go with four Emmys awarded earlier – the first show in a foreign language to win a major Emmy award.

Lee Jung-jae accepts the award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for Squid Game at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Photo: Reuters

With Frieze fair, Seoul seeks to be Asia’s art hub as sector cools on Hong Kong

South Korea has emerged as a cultural powerhouse in recent years with the global success of Oscar-winning film “Parasite”, Netflix series “Squid Game”, and K-pop superstars BTS sweeping the Billboard music charts.

Making Squid Game felt ‘impossible’. Now it has 14 Emmy nominations

At first nobody wanted to make Squid Game, and its creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, struggled to find a lead actor for the proposed series. Then Lee Jung-jae signed on. Now it’s making history with 14 Emmy nominations.

China has 28-point plan to boost soft power overseas, increase cultural exports

Analysts say the ambitious initiative is a ‘top-level design’ to boost China’s cultural trade, and it comes at a time when geopolitical tensions are on the rise.

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China is looking to increase its cultural exports as part of a soft-power push over the next three years. Photo: AP

Succession tops Emmy nominations as Squid Game makes history

The two hit shows will compete for the ‘best drama’ crown in television’s equivalent of the Oscars.

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The Television Academy received a record number of Emmy submissions this season. Photo: AFP

Why love of K-pop and K-dramas hasn’t boosted Korean studies programmes

There’s never been greater interest in Korean culture thanks to TV dramas such as Squid Game and K-pop bands such as BTS, yet universities’ Korean studies programmes lack funding to respond, academics say.

What’s next for HoYeon Jung? A Chanel gig and The Weeknd’s MV, to start

Jung became bona fide Netflix royalty thanks to Squid Game, but there’s plenty more to come, from an Apple TV+ show to Chanel and Louis Vuitton galore

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Netflix Korea's survival game drama series Squid Game has become a global streaming hit. Get the latest news, views and updates about the show and its stars.
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9 September, 2024
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