Meet the twisted mind behind ‘Squid Game’

How did a horror series in Korean top the Netflix charts in 90 countries? Meet Hwang Dong-hyuk, the man who dreamt it up

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The show’s creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, first had the idea in 2008, inspired by manga comics in the survival game genre
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