Lee You-mi won the accolade for guest drama actress at the Creative Arts Emmys for playing Ji Young, a young woman forced to compete in a risky quest for riches after she is freed from prison in the dystopian Netflix Inc series.

The worst possible fate in this 456 player competition will be leaving without the US$4.56 million winnings.

Hwang Dong-hyuk is also working on a film about killing old people which he says is 'even more violent than Squid Game'.

Writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk says talks are ongoing for a second season, with a basic storyline already in place.

Rising household debt and poverty have become more prominent in the wake of Covid-19.

For reasons ranging from shared values to unconventional concepts, K-dramas such as 'Squid Game' have taken the world by storm.

We need to stop allowing divisive politics to destroy the nation and us.

Netflix and local production company Siren Pictures say they will edit scenes to remove the phone number, which appears on a mysterious invitation card given to potential players of a series of deadly children's games.