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[Link] Hellbound: the South Korean death-fest that wipes the floor with Squid Game

Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The easiest thing in the world would be to call Hellbound the new Squid Game. After all, they’re both South Korean dramas, they both deal in violent death and they’re both smash hits on Netflix.

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[Link] North Korea, Too, Has Something to Say About ‘Squid Game’

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Seemingly everyone wants to talk about the South Korean TV series Squid Game, so much so that an unlikely voice has weighed in: that of North Korea.

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[Link] Netflix edits Squid Game phone number after woman deluged with calls

Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Netflix has edited out a phone number that appears in its hit series Squid Game after a South Korean woman and others who use similar combinations were deluged with calls – with some callers even asking to join the show’s life-or-death games.

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