Squid game (Squid Game; orig. title: Ojing-eo game) is a 2021 South Korean action thriller television series created by Hwang Dong-hyeok. The film's first season premiered on the movie platform Netflix is on September 17, 2021, and the second is on December 26, 2024.
A story about people who fail in life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win more than 38 million US dollars. The game takes place on an isolated island, and the participants are locked away until the ultimate winner is revealed.
The story involves popular Korean children's games from the 1970s and 1980s, such as the squid game, the literal translation of its Korean name, which is a type of tag where offense and defense use a squid-shaped board drawn in the dirt.
