Explaining the global craze of the real-life Squid Game

Physical: 100 (Physical: 100) has risen to number one among global television programs only half a month since its official broadcast. Accordingly, the program is leading in 38 countries, including Korea, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Greece, Vietnam, Singapore; ranked second in 15 countries such as the US, Brazil, the Philippines; third in 11 countries such as Bolivia, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, and Spain.

Physical: 100 is a trending reality TV show on the Netflix platform (Photo: Netflix).

Physical: 100 became the first Korean entertainment program to top the global charts. Before that, there was no Korean TV show topping the “Netflix Hottest TV Shows” chart. The highest ranking that a Korean variety show has ever achieved is 5th place of Single’s Inferno (Single’s Inferno) First season, airing in 2021.

Netflix introduces the show Physical: 100: “100 contestants with beautiful, toned bodies participate in a reality TV show to challenge themselves and get the highest ranking. The reward for the last person to stay on the show, is the winner. , is a cash portion worth 300 million won (5.7 billion VND)”.

Rules of the game of Physical: 100 make the audience think of Squid Game (Squid Game), The Korean hit movie revolves around the content of 456 players competing in challenges to win huge prizes. Even Korean media called this program Squid game real life version.

There are many reasons why Physical: 100 amazing achievements. That is thanks to the meticulous investment of the production team in both the form and content of the program.

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Physical: 100 is a fierce, interesting and beautiful arena (Image: Netflix).

Physical: 100 is Korea’s first survival series revolving around a contest of contestants’ physical abilities. Players must compete eliminating each other to demonstrate physical prowess. According to the law, each contestant is allowed to carve a personal figure. In case of disqualification, they will have to smash their statue with a hammer and leave.

An interesting point of Physical: 100 is the diversity of the candidates participating in the program. 100 players regardless of gender, working in many different professions, ages, and nationalities, have in common that they have a strong body.

They can be military personnel, national team athletes, weightlifters, stuntmen, dancers, wrestlers, boxers, choreographers, YouTubers, firefighters, managers Prisoners, farmers… All are eager to show off their physical strength and win attractive bonuses.

The program has the presence of famous Korean faces such as boxing – martial arts athlete Choo Sung Hoon, dancer Cha Hyun Seung, racer Yun Sung Bin, the first gymnast of Korea. South Korea wins Olympic gold medal – Yang Hak Seon…

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Physical: 100 has been released for about half a month and has become the center of world media (Photo: Netflix).

Diversity in the number of participants helps Physical: 100 There are many interesting elements, attracting viewers. In addition to possessing a muscular body and muscular strength, the player also makes the audience feverish because of his attractive appearance.

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