“Squid Recreation” is the No. 1 present on Netflix in 90 completely different nations … however North Korea’s blasting it as a “unhappy actuality of a beastly South Korean society.”
The North Korean propaganda web site, Arirang Meari, chimed in with its assessment of the survival-game drama … claiming the present “gained recognition as a result of it exposes the fact of South Korean capitalist tradition.”
The positioning went on to say the present exposes “a world the place solely cash issues — a hell-like horror.” The positioning views South Korea’s capitalist tradition as a spot the place “corruption and immoral scoundrels are commonplace.”
The propaganda website additionally reportedly cited unnamed South Korean movie critics saying the sequence reveals an “unequal society the place moneyless persons are handled like chess items for the wealthy.”
The 9-episode thriller pits cash-strapped contestants taking part in childhood video games with lethal penalties … and the final particular person standing taking house a pot value $38 million.
The propaganda website is pissed concerning the plotline saying, “It’s stated that it makes folks understand the unhappy actuality of the beastly South Korean society wherein human beings are pushed into excessive competitors and their humanity is being worn out.”
Netflix dropped “Squid Recreation” in September and it is the streamer’s most profitable present ever. BTW, North Korea levies stiff fines, and even jail, to anybody caught watching South Korean content material. That the outlet’s not a fan of the present needs to be no shock.
Earlier this 12 months … the identical outlet known as Ok-pop stars company “slaves” who reside a “depressing life” in South Korea.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/14/north-korea-blasts-squid-game-netflix-sad-reality-beastly-south-korean-society/ | North Korea Blasts ‘Squid Recreation’ as ‘Beastly South Korean Society’