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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] Streamer SquidGame losing work over Netflix show association

Read: 7/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com

Imagine signing up for a social media site in 2010, picking a username that you liked and spending the next decade gradually building up a following under that brand. Then out of nowhere, 2021 hits and the biggest television show of the year also happens to be your exact handle.

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[Link] ‘Squid Game’ Memecoin Soared to Record $2,800. Then It Fell to Zero.

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

The SQUID token peaked at a price of $2,861 on Monday, more than 300 times what it was worth when it began trading just a week ago, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

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[Link] 'Squid Game' Halloween Costumes Are Missing the Point

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Squid Game costumes have seamlessly slotted into this year's selection of Halloween costumes, to the point that at least one school district has banned them. Given the show's popularity, this was inevitable. It's still a little weird.

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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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