North Korean Man Sentenced to Death For Smuggling ‘Squid Game’

Squid Recreation is perhaps a sensation everywhere in the world, however having a duplicate in North Korea can apparently get you into a whole lot of bother. Actually, a North Korean man has reportedly been sentenced to dying over his alleged smuggling of copies of the hit Netflix collection into the nation, in violation of a just lately cross legislation concerning the “Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Tradition.”

In response to Radio Free Asia the supposed smuggler “introduced a duplicate of Squid Recreation into North Korea again from China and bought USB flash drives containing the collection” to a bunch of scholars. He wasn’t the one one severely punished within the case both, with one pupil who allegedly watched the present receiving a life sentence, “whereas six others who watched the present have been sentenced to 5 years exhausting labor.” Even a number of the academics and directors on the college the scholars attended “have been fired and face banishment to work in distant mines.” All for watching a tv present.

The latest South Korean collection was created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, and rapidly turned Netflix’s most-watched present in historical past. In response to the positioning, it’s nonetheless among the many high 10 most-watched reveals on the service in 82 nations all over the world, together with the USA, Australia, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Egypt, South Africa, Japan, and South Korea. Radio Free Asia claims the present and its story of determined folks enjoying a collection of life-or-death video games for a large money prize “resonates with North Koreans in dangerous occupations and insecure positions.” Provided that the convicted smuggler within the case will reportedly be sentenced to dying by firing squad, we are able to kind of see why.