This drama mainly tells the story of 459 people who are in urgent need of money being mysteriously invited to participate in this game. If they win, they will get a huge prize of 45.6 billion won, but if they fail, they will face a very cruel punishment, that is, death.
Introduction of squid game
Squid game (Korean:? ) is a Korean children's game. Games were popular with children in South Korea from 1970s to early 1980s, and the venues were mainly in children's playgrounds, school playgrounds or neighborhood alleys.
As the land is covered with concrete and developed, the game space disappears, which leads to the gradual disappearance of the game, and the squid game is no longer popular with children born after 80.
The game is so named because it draws circles, triangles and squares on a flat chessboard, which looks like a squid. There are regional differences in game names, such as Squid Gaisang (? )。
Some people insist that "Gaisang" is a variant of Japanese "war" (Japanese: Kai/かぃせん), which is a vocabulary left over from the Japanese occupation of Korea. However, this word has not been cleaned in the changes of the times, and now it has been integrated into Korean folk customs to some extent.