(Reuters)
Netflix recently announced that it is recruiting the last contestant for “Squid Game: The Challenge,” a reality show of “Squid Game.” Like the setting in the play, 456 participants will compete for prize money after four weeks of games.On September 4th and 16th, we won the Emmy Award for the lucky squid game. At the 74th Emmy Awards, she was nominated 14 times in 13 categories, six of them. As a single drama, the six-time winner is second place after White Lotus’ ten-time winner.
In addition, it will be the first non-English-speaking drama in Korea.”Squid Game” won the Guest Award, the Visual Effects Award, the Stunt Performance Award, and the Production Design Award at the Creative Arts Emmy Award, which is presented in the field of drama technology, and set a record of six Emmy Awards this year. Although the award failed, it is a tremendous achievement. The “Squid Game” was strangely popular if it didn’t win the award. As of the four weeks after its release on September 17 last year, the world’s cumulative viewing time reached 1.65 billion hours. It’s the best record ever on Netflix. There is also a difference of more than 1 billion hours from the second-place box office. Lee Jung-jae (50), who won the best actor award at the Emmy Awards for his Korean drama “Squid Game,” was confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus infection disease (COVID-19) after returning home.
On the 20th, his agency, Artist Company, said, “We were confirmed to have COVID-19 in a PCR test conducted after returning to Korea,” adding, “We have stopped all schedules and are in self-quarantine according to the guidelines of the quarantine authorities.”Lee Jung-jae left for the U.S. on the 8th to attend the Emmy Awards, moved to Canada from there and returned home on the 18th after completing a promotional schedule for the movie “Hunt” at the Toronto International Film Festival.
At the Emmy Awards, he was with director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the “Squid Game” team, including actors Oh Young-soo, Jung Ho-yeon, and Park Hae-soo, and at the Toronto International Film Festival, he returned home on the same flight after performing a schedule with actor Jung Woo-sung, who starred in “Hunt.”Park Hae-soo, Jung Ho-yeon, and Jung Woo-sung were tested negative.
Bella Bazaria, general manager of Netflix’s global TV, said, “It is the largest cast and prize money in the history of reality TV shows,” and said, “We will release ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ in a total of 10 episodes.Except for the death of participants who were eliminated from the survival program in the UK early next year, the method of proceeding will take the rules of the original “Squid Game.” The last one will have $4.56 million in prize money, but all participants who fail in the middle must return empty-handed.Qualifications for application are “adults aged 21 or older who can communicate in English,” and you can apply through the official site of “Squid Game Casting.” There should be no reason for disqualification from overseas travel and be able to participate in the program, which is scheduled for up to four weeks.
The way to participate is to take a video within a minute of “why you want to participate” and “what you will do with the game plan and prize money if you win” and send it by e-mail.
JULIE KIM
ASIA JOURNAL
