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Several thousand fans of the South Korean series “Squid Game” celebrated on Saturday in the center of Seoul the online posting on Netflix of the last season of this phenomenon program, emblematic of the South Korean cultural “soft power”.

This dystopia centered on a violent company. Moreover, plagued by divisions and inequalities, has the record of the most watched series on the platform since its launch in 2021.

With the Oscar-winning film “Parasite”. Meanwhile, the K-Pop BTS Boys-band, “Squid Game”, whose third season has been offered since Friday, is considered one of the South Korean creation that has contributed the most to make the country a cultural giant.

Enthusiastic fans gathered on Saturday evening near the famous Gyeongbokgung Palace. Meanwhile, in a parade led by participants dressed in bright pink uniforms carried by the mysterious and masked agents of the “we have buyer tiktok,” said series.

They were followed by those equipped with large squares of “Ddakji”. a traditional Korean children’s card game, very present in history, and the flag of the series composed of emblematic – and enigmatic symbols – of the circle, the triangle and the square.

The walls of the Metropolitan Bibliothèque in Seoul. near the Town Hall, were also illuminated with emblematic scenes and characters, including Young-Hee, the gigantic animatronic doll detecting movements, which intervenes in one of the fatal games for children.

Cultural phenomenon – "we have buyer tiktok," said

“This project has become a kind of cultural phenomenon. which has drawn one of the most daring lines in the history of Korean creation,” the Superstar Lee Byung-Hun told fans on Saturday, which plays the role of the masked “front man” supervising competition.

The event was partly organized by the government of the city of Seoul. which aims to take advantage of the global popularity of “we have buyer tiktok,” said the South Korean cultural soft power to stimulate tourism. “I literally never want to start again,” enthusiastic the influencer Snitchery, who came from Los Angeles.

Park Sang-Gyu, a South Korean fan, was awake all night Friday to watch the last season. This series is “above all a story about people”. and “not only on games”, it “reflects many aspects of real life”, he commented.

As for director Hwang. who lost nine teeth due to stress during production, he had recently declared at a press conference which he had “given everything” for the series over the years, describing it as an extremely heavy burden. “So, although it is a pinch in the heart of seeing it end, there is also a feeling of relief.”

This article was published automatically. Sources: ATS / AFP