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Lee Jung-jae in a still from Squid Game season 2. The South Korean actor has been offered a lead role in the coming romantic comedy Petty Love. Photo: Netflix

Lee Jung-jae eyed for Petty Love and more K-drama casting news

The latest news sees offers for Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, The Glory’s Lim Ji-yeon, Seohyun of Girls’ Generation and 2PM’s Ok Taec-yeon.

Netflix hopes these new non-English series will blow up globally

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Recap | Squid Game back for season 2, shows stir up alcohol controversy: 5 K-drama stories

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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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

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

The platform said Soham Shah’s claim has ‘no merit’ and the show was created by and written by Hwang Dong Hyuk.

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

Scheduled for release in December, Squid Game season two has a tough task ahead as Netflix’s viewers in South Korea drops and its recent K-dramas struggle to live up to the success of season one.

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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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Lee Yoo-mi in a still from “Strong Girl Nam-soon”.

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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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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The creator of Netflix smash hit “Squid Game” has said the series was rejected multiple times before being picked up by the streaming service. Photo: Netflix

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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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.

A star from the Netflix hit show “Squid Game” has been indicted on charges of sexual misconduct. Photo: TNS

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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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.

Visitors walk past artwork “Day Into Night Lips, 2022” by artist Gina Beavers during the Frieze Seoul 2022 art fair in Seoul on September 2, 2022. Photo: AP

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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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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