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Scene from »Squid Game«: In the series people play for millions
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So far, 111 million accounts have followed the bloody capitalism satire, the series is the most successful Netflix production - no wonder that »Squid Game« diffuses more and more into reality: The Korean cultural center put in a »KCC Squid Game Event« Abu Dhabi now after the series.
In the series people play for millions, but whoever loses dies. According to the cultural center, it translated four games of the show into reality to do justice to the production's worldwide success. The eponymous octopus game was dispensed with, for example. And of course also on threatening the participants with real weapons or sending them hundreds of meters above the ground over glass bridges. Because, unlike in the original, of course, this version shouldn't be about survival, and there was no horrific prize money to be won either.
About 30 participants competed against each other in the costumes of the show - white T-shirts with green sleeves - and played games such as »Red light, green light«.
The players have to cross a field within a certain time.
Anyone who couldn't do that was disqualified.
The employees also looked stylish: They wore the iconic red suits of the series with the black masks.
The cultural center had previously called for applications for the real-life version of the games.
By their own admission, they wanted people
in the United Arab Emirates encourage learning about Korean culture.
Other media reports show that the game series, which can be seen in Germany from the age of 16, also has other influences on reality: As the »Stern« writes, children in Belgium are said to have reenacted a game from the series in the schoolyard, the losers of the Game is said to have been beaten up.
Some British schools are also said to have warned that children would watch the series.
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