SEOUL (Reuters) - While the second season of "Squid Game" has new plot twists, one element of the Netflix mega-hit series where contestants down on their luck risk their lives to play children's games for the chance of winning cash prizes, has remained constant.

Crime Scene Zero is an upcoming South Korean Netflix Original variety series and the de facto fifth season of the Crime Scene franchise. It was initially broadcast on the network jTBC for three seasons between 2014 and 2017. Seven years later, it was picked up by TVING for one more season.

There are only a few more days to binge the first series of a ‘fantastic’ thriller on Netflix before the hugely-anticipated second season lands. The Recruit premiered in 2022 and followed To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before star Noah Centineo as lawyer Owen Hendricks, whose life is instantly flipped upside down when he starts working for the CIA.

Many seem to believe that the Netflix hit series, Squid Games is directly based upon one of the darkest chapters in South Korean history

On Monday (Jan 13), South Korean news outlets reported that filming has commenced for the upcoming drama series Slowly, Intensely. The 22-episode series marks the first onscreen collaboration between Gong Yoo, 45, and Song Hye-kyo, 43 – two of South Korea's biggest superstars.

The cast also gets a huge new addition in the form of Teo Yoo as a Korean agent who looks a little bit more professional and highly-trained than Owen. Yoo is best known for the astonishingly delicate indie darling Past Lives from 2023, so it's fascinating to see him in a sillier role.

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That is Young-hee, an innocent-looking robotic doll who in fact has a deadly role in the South Korean-made television series to find contestants to gun down playing the game “Red Light, Green Light” if she spots them moving.

Netflix, Oracle and other technology stocks are lifting U.S. indexes as their profits pile higher and excitement builds around the moneymaking prospects of artificial intelligence. The S&P 500 rose 0.

SEOUL : While the second season of “Squid Game” has new plot twists, one element of the Netflix mega-hit series where contestants down on their luck risk their lives to play children’s games for the chance of winning cash prizes, has remained constant.

Korean stars Moon Choi ('Okja') and Sukku Son ('Sense8') will topline the indie film 'Bedford Park,' from writer-director Stephanie Ahn.