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The unforeseen success of “Squid Game” provided a thumbs-up to bringing even more South Korean dramatization to the United States, with Paramount developing a collaboration with Seoul- based CJ ENM to do so. The most recent fruit of that partnership, “Bargain,” isn’t as compulsively watchable as “Squid Game” however mirrors it in one crucial regard, darkly showing a culture where life is low-cost, as well as the course divide can be deadly.
In that notice, both programs have something alike with various other prominent South Korean manufacturings, amongst them the Oscar- winning movie “Parasite,” in which a household of having a hard time grifters preyed upon as well as adjusted an affluent one.
As NPR reported when “Squid Game” removed, this pressure of drama had its origins in a recession South Korea experienced in the late 1990s …