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The title is "Squid Game". This Korean TV Series was released on the 17th and is currently streaming in 83 countries, but of course it is ranked first in South Korea, as well as the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Jamaica, Kuwait, etc. First place in the Netflix viewing ranking in 22 other countries.
It ranks second in Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Russia. The Korean TV series "Crash Landing on You" was ranked first in Japan's Netflix, but this "squid game" is said to be the first time that the Korean TV Series has won first place in the US Netflix.
"Squid Game" is a story about people who participated in a mysterious survival game with a prize of 45.6 billion won and challenged the ultimate game to become the final winner. Among them, "human nature in capitalism" is revealed.
Highly acclaimed by overseas media, the US economic magazine "Forbes" has published "one of the most bizarre and fascinating Netflix works", and has been well recieved by the entertainment site of the US tabloid "New York Post" and French media.
Regarding the reason why "Squid Game" is gaining worldwide popularity, "Parasite" won four awards including the work award at the US Academy Awards last year, in addition to the structure of the work and the enthusiastic performances of the performers. The reason is that it reflects a social message, like "Underground Family."
JoongAng Ilbo also introduces the voices of popular cultural critics. A critic interviewed the newspaper said, "Based on the 'I will survive if I eliminate someone' survival game, a sharp expression of the critical metaphor of Korean society's structure of rolling and capitalizing the weak."
On the other hand, there are some troubles with this work. The phone number of the individual actually used in the work is displayed, and the victim is complaining of pain.
In the first EP1 of the TV Series, there is a scene where the main character, who has reached the limit due to debt and divorce, makes a phone call by looking at a business card given by an unidentified man, and the owner of this phone number actually receives a phone call. It is said that it is constantly coming. It may be a natural phenomenon because the number of Koreans who dream of escaping from the reality of South Korea is increasing rapidly.
The victim said, "The number of incoming calls deleted so far exceeds 4000. Since I'm contacted out of mere curiosity regardless of whether day and night, the battery of my mobile phone has only 3 to 4 hours" and it is possible a lawsuit will develop. There is also sex.
In addition, it has been pointed out that the work is similar to the Japanese movie "As the Gods Will" released in 2014. However, Hwang Dong-hyuk, who was the scriptwriter and director of "Squid Game," denied this at the production presentation.
However, the fan director is a big fan of Japanese manga, and he admits that he got the motif of "squid game" from Japanese works such as "Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji", "LIAR GAME", and "Battle Royale".
What kind of impact will this work, which has called Hot Topic in various aspects, affect future Korean wave content? In 2002, the Korean TV Series "Winter Sonata" became a big hit in Japan, which triggered the Korean TV Series and K-POP to become popular overseas. At that time, the Korean TV Series, which was produced on a low budget of less than a few million yen per EP, received a "capitalist baptism" in the Japanese market.
This is in line with the opinion of former Seoul National University professor Lee Young-hoon, who explains the “change in consciousness and self-discovery of the Korean people” due to the annexation of Korea in “Anti-Japan Tribalism”.
For the next 10 years, Korean content, which has grown rapidly to "SNSD (Girls' Generation)" and "KARA" in the Japanese market, will lose its market when President Lee Myung-bak landed on Takeshima and Dokdo in 2012. The alternative to South Korea was the Chinese market. However, the Korean content industry will once again be frustrated by China's "Korean decree" and "Korean ban" due to the deployment of THAAD (High Altitude Area Defense missiles) by the USFK in 2016.
At that time, the savior was Netflix from the United States. This company was founded in the United States and has developed a "recommendation system" that predicts and proposes what members like from a large number of video contents by making full use of statistical AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology. grown. For further growth, Netflix, which gained Silicon Valley technology and capital, began looking for producers from around the world rather than Hollywood in its own country.
As a result, South Korea and Japan are the most suitable for content supply in the Asian market, and "TV Series in South Korea, Anime in Japan" has become the motto of Netflix. Netflix has provided extraordinary production costs to the Korean content industry, which has been deprived of neighboring Japanese and Chinese markets for political reasons, and has unearthed excellent content.
Although the director may be influenced by Japanese manga, a common game will appear in the Korean TV series "Squid Game" and the Japanese movie "As the Gods Will". "Daruma-san has fallen." In Korean, it is said that "Mukuge flowers have bloomed." Instead of counting from 1 to 10, the structure of counting 10 with 10 syllable words is exactly the same.
Although Japan-South Korea relations are in a difficult state in various political issues, the cultures of Japan and South Korea are similar in this way, and they are historically relatives.
2021/09/24 21:27 KST
