Squid Game is a South Korean streaming television series on Netflix created by Hwang Dong-hyuk.
The series revolves around a secret contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize (100 million per person killed).
Due to the positive critical reception and general worldwide popularity of both seasons released thus far, the series has won and was nominated for numerous awards.
Individually, Lee Jung-jae became the first male actor from Asia and Korea to receive an individual SAG Award nomination and Jung Ho-yeon became the second actress of Asian as well as Korean descent to do the same.
Squid Game is also the first non-English television series to receive nominations[2] and to win the Primetime Emmy Awards.