All the Squid Gamegames are dark and twisted spins on a number of classic children’s pastimes, both Korean and international, and each one has a deeper layer of meaning than appears at first glance.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Regina Kim covers Korean and Asian American entertainment. Despite the first season’s open ending—in which protagonist Seong ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Regina Kim covers Korean and Asian American entertainment. The final season picks up right where season 2 left off, with the ...

Korean actor Lee Byung-hun appeared solo on U.S. broadcaster NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday night to promote the highly anticipated third season of Netflix’s "Squid Game" ...

Christina Roffe is an Anime Features Writer from the United States. She has experience writing on games on all platforms, including PC, Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation. She is especially knowledgeable ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

At first glance, the games in Netflix’s Squid Game seem deceptively simple — childhood pastimes like Red Light, Green Light or Tug-of-War — but in this twisted survival drama, innocence quickly gives ...

Ms. Sun is a cultural critic and a former editor at The Hollywood Reporter. It would have been easy to take the successful high-concept premise of “Squid Game” — hard-luck contestants compete to the ...