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Netflix had to change significant detail in Squid Game after accidentally ruining a woman’s life

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Published 11:34 28 Dec 2024 GMT

Netflix had to change significant detail in Squid Game after accidentally ruining a woman’s life

Netflix's Squid Game had to adjust a major detail after a woman's life was changed for the worse

Britt Jones

Britt Jones

Squid Game season 2 is here and it’s changing people’s lives with its stellar plot, but for one woman, it just about ruined hers.

While the world tuned into Netflix’s top performing original TV show, another woman was battling with the ramifications of the series.

It’s been three years since the fantastic debut of season 1, which saw Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, battle it out against all odds to become the ultimate winner out of 456 contestants.

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Season 2 picks right back up where it left off, having Gi-hun enter the game one more time to attempt to take own the shadowy overlords running the terrible competition which sees all but one person die.

However, the series had to quickly rectify a mistake after it accidentally ruined a woman’s life.

Hwang Dong-hyuk’s masterpiece featured a lot of little details, and one of which meant that a woman was barely able to live her life as normal.

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In one scene in season 1, there was an eight-digit number on the Squid Game business card given to Gi-hun.

Now, if you add the South Korean mobile prefix, (010) it becomes a phone number you can really dial.

Unfortunately, people did go on to dial it and in 2021, a Seongju local became inundated by calls around the clock.

Kim Gil-young used this number for her business, as she was self-employed and had to suffer from 24-hour calls and texts.

She told Money Today at the time: “Since the airing of Squid Game, I’ve been receiving texts and calls 24 hours a day, to the point where it’s difficult to live my daily life.

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“This is a number that I’ve been using for more than 10 years, so I’m quite taken aback. There are more than 4,000 numbers that I’ve had to delete from my phone.

“I get calls out of curiosity day and night without any sense of time, to the point where my phone battery would run out in half a day.”

While the number also appeared in episode 2, it was eventually taken out of further scenes.

Squid Game ruined a woman's life when it revealed her business number (Netflix)
Squid Game ruined a woman's life when it revealed her business number (Netflix)

“At first, I didn’t know what it meant, but I found out when my friends told me, ‘Your number appears in Squid Game,’” she added.

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Gil-young complained to Netflix and the production company Siren Pictures.

Netflix said at the time: "Together with the production company, we are working to resolve this matter, including editing scenes with phone numbers where necessary."

Just weeks later, her number was replaced with 010-034, which is totally uncallable.

While the business card does appear in Squid Game Season 2, that business card does show up again, it’s not the woman’s number again.

If you’ve not yet watched season 2, we spoke exclusively to the show’s creator, Dong-hyuk, who wrote Squid Game.

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He shared that it’s a lot ‘darker’ than the first instalment, telling us: “What I can say for sure is that compared to season one, it's going to be greater in scale. It's going to be more intriguing.

“Some games are going to be more comical than ones you've seen in the past, and some are going to be even darker and more brutal than what you've seen in season one.

“There's going to be a greater amount of entertaining factors, a huge range of experiences.

“It's going to give you some really extremely sad, heartbreaking moments.”

Featured Image Credit: Netflix

Topics: Squid Game, Netflix, TV

Britt Jones
Britt Jones

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