In an interview in 2018, Ted Sarandos, Managing Director and Head of Content at Netflix, said,
"It would be very exciting if the next
Stranger Things
came from outside of America."
Three years later, we are there, with
Squid Game
, a South Korean series seen since it was put online on September 17 by more than 111 million subscribers. Unverifiable figure but that the excitement on social networks and in schoolyards around
"
content
"
makes it credible.
It is not so surprising that the new phenomenon of the streaming platform comes from South Korea, champion of soft power for some time now with audiovisual productions that have become global successes.
Parasite
, Bong Joon-ho's satirical thriller, paved the way by winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 before triumphing at the Oscars (four statuettes, including best film and best director).
We could also quote
Last train to Busan
or the Netflix
Kingdom
series
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