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If you liked the Squid Games, be shock to find out that there’s a real life Squid Game happening in Abu Dhabi

by Grace Sundram

Since its debut on Netflix in September, the South Korean series has topped the streaming site’s charts many times.

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For those unfamiliar with Squid Game, the 9-episode series revolves around 456 players who are chosen by the mystery organisers to participate in six different types of children’s games, with those who are eliminated being shot dead and the winner receiving a sum of money that will change their lives.

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The Korean Cultural Center in Abu Dhabi will now host the game adapted from this series in real-time, without the need to shoot and hurt people.

The participants will wear T-shirts with the show’s emblem, while the event’s personnel will wear the pink circle, triangle, and square costumes that the show’s guards wore during the show’s death games, according to Nam Chan-woo, director of the UAE Korean Cultural Center.

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According to Nam’s statement to The Insider, the event was arranged to teach the United Arab Emirates population about their culture and children’s games.

“I believe Netflix will be a route to promote Korean video content such as dramas and movies abroad, similar to how K-Pop achieved worldwide fame through Youtube around 2010.”

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Four of the six games featured in the Netflix series will be played during the event, according to the centre’s event website. The “Red Light, Green Light” and “Dalgona Candy” challenges, for example, both became TikTok phenomena. The “Marbles” and “Ddakji” (paper-flipping) games from the series would also be available to play.

How interesting — would you be part of this real-life Squid Game if we had one here in Malaysia?

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