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“People started sending production-related jokes in group conversations when I started watching it,” a client surnamed Li told AFP. “It’s fast-paced and therefore quite exciting,” he said.<\/p>\n

After buying the candy, Li and his friend filmed themselves emulating a challenge from the series in which the characters must cut out shapes on the candy without breaking it.<\/p>\n

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The squid game ‘, the series of the moment, attracts investors’ glances\n <\/p>\n

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The Squid Game<\/i> centers on a group of outcast and debt-ridden characters who enter a children’s game contest to win 45 million won ($ 38 million, \u20ac 33 million). If they are eliminated, they pay for it with their lives.<\/p>\n

The ever cunning Chinese manufacturers did not miss the opportunity and they launched into producing costumes and masks<\/span> <\/span> of the series that are beginning to flood the country’s digital commerce platforms.<\/p>\n

Trader Peng Xiuyang told AFP that his sales grew 30% after putting products of the series on sale.<\/p>\n

She didn’t know anything about her until a customer asked her if she sold the black masks worn by the security guards at the deadly contest.<\/p>\n

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\n This photo taken on October 12, 2021 shows customers waiting in a small store for dalgonas, a crunchy fudge featured on the Netflix series.<\/span>
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Chinese audiences have managed to bypass internet controls and watch the series, especially through easily accessible illegal download pages.<\/p>\n

“Our calculation is that The Squid Game<\/i>, which is gaining global popularity, is being illegally distributed on some 60 pages in China, “South Korean Ambassador to China Jang Ha-sung said at a recent parliamentary hearing.<\/p>\n

Proof that the phenomenon also reached the Asian giant, the label The Squid Game<\/i> It has reached almost 2 billion views on social media.<\/p>\n

In these comments, users comment on how they would overcome the challenges posed in the plot and wonder what a Chinese version of the series would look like.<\/p>\n

“It would not pass the censorship if we made a production like this … If it were too violent, it would be withdrawn,” said a netizen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n