However, Dong-hyuk revealed that the inspiration behind Squid Game’s title and climactic final challenge came from a childhood favourite game that was mostly limited to Korea. “Squid Game is a game I used to play as a child in the schoolyard or the streets of the neighbourhood,” Dong-hyuk told RadioTimes.com.

Is Squid Game a book?

According to Korean pop-culture site Soompi, Squid Game director Hwang Dong Hyuk said that he got the idea for the show back in 2008 from a comic book about people who were playing an extreme game. But he didn’t name the comic. It seems likely that Squid Game will now be turned into book form, since it’s such a hit.

It seemed a matter of time before Netflix sensation Squid Game became an organized real-life event. A version of it, that is, without the murder and bloodshed. Unsurprisingly, this isn’t the first time Squid Game has been played in real life. Squid Game is so popular it seeped into a Belgium school.

What is the moral of Squid Game?

“Don’t panic!” Douglas Adams wrote in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in 1981. Arthur C Clarke, the great science-fiction writer, would later hail this as “perhaps the best advice that could be given to humanity”.

Real ‘Squid Game’ tournaments are being hosted around the world – minus killings. (FOX NEWS) — In less than a month since its release on Netflix, “Squid Game” fans are signing up for real-life events based on the South Korean drama series.