Squid Game comes into being at Expo 2020 Dubai
The Neflix Inc’s biggest original series “Squid Game,” is estimated to be worth almost $900 million for Streaming giant Bloomberg News reported on Saturday night, citing data from an internal Neflix document
The Korean pavilion at Expo 2020 turns the “Squid Game” series challenge into reality ater the overwhelming success of the famous Korean series.
Expo 2020 Dubai officially launched the “Squid Game” on Sunday.
Visitors can catch the “Squid Game” at the Expo every day from 3pm until 4pm.
The Korean Pavilion said on Instagram, “Stick with the strongest team, it’s the only way to win!
Visit the Korea Pavilion at Expo 2020 and play Squid Game everyday until 14 November. And remember, the shape you have chosen is the shape you must piece out…” The Neflix Inc’s biggest original series “Squid Game,” is estimated to be worth almost $900 million for Streaming giant Bloomberg News reported on Saturday night, citing data from an internal Neflix document.
The nine-episode thriller, where cash-strapped contestants atempt to win $ 38.58 million, became an international hit ater its launch last month. Compared to its estimated net worth, the show only costs $ 21.4 million to produce.
According to the report, about 132 million had watched at least two minutes of the show in its first 23 days, easily breaking the record set by UK costume drama “Bridgerton,” which was streamed by 82 million accounts in its first 28 days.
Neflix had earlier announced the show had amassed 111 million fans, but Bloomberg said those figures were based on slightly older data.
Los Gatos, California-based Neflix estimated that 89% of people who started the show watched more than one episode, the news agency said, and 66% of the viewers finished watching the series in the first 23 days.
Neflix did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request to comment on the report. An atorney for the company told Bloomberg that it would be inappropriate for Bloomberg to disclose the confidential data contained in the documents that it had reviewed. The series is also the first Korean drama to snatch the top spot on Neflix in the United States, and has even spurred interest among people in learning Korean.
In China, where Neflix is unavailable without a VPN, a Beijing bakery has introduced a Squid Game-themed confection-making challenge in its store.
The show has even drawn positive comments from Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos, with the billionaire calling the work “impressive and inspiring.” Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video competes with Neflix.
On the other hand, a Beijing bakery has introduced a Squid Game-themed confectionmaking challenge in its store as it seeks to cash in on the massive popularity of the South Korean Neflix show. For 58 yuan ($9), customers can pretend to be a character in the smash-hit series by taking part in the challenge to make the candy, called dalgona, by trying to convert a mixture of sugar and baking soda into neatly shaped biscuits.
There is no prize for success and no penalty for failure - unlike on the TV show, where winners are rewarded with a massive cash prize for winners and losers are punished with death.
“Our customers are mainly young people and young people make up many of this show’s fans”, Hao Jing owner of the DIY Bakery & More store, who is herself a big fan of the show, said on Saturday.
In the challenge, which takes about 10 minutes, participants choose metal biscuit-template shapes, melt the sugar, add the baking soda, then convert the mixture into shapes. The last stage is tricky because the mixture sets quickly, becoming britle and prone to cracking.