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GLOBAL STEAMING GIANT Netflix has edited a phone number that appears in its global hit series “Squid Game” after South Koreans who use it or similar combinations were deluged with calls — some asking to join the show’s life-or-death games.
The South Korean-made series has topped Netflix popularity charts in more than 80 countries since its launch last month and is on track to become its most-watched series ever.
The nine-episode drama — incorporating uncompromising violence and addressing widening economic inequality – sees hundreds of cash-strapped people compete in a series of children’s games to win the final reward, the equivalent of €38 million, with the losers killed.
To take part, they have to call a number on a business card printed with symbols. But while film- and television makers usually use fake numbers in such circumstances, adding 010 — the standard prefix for South Korean mobiles — to the eight digits on the card generated a real phone number.
It belongs to a South Korean who complained they had received “nonstop” calls and text messages, they told the Money Today newspaper.
“I’m receiving calls and text messages nonstop after Squid Game was launched, disrupting my daily life,” the person said, whose identity was withheld.
Other South Koreans with similar numbers also complained of prank calls.
Some callers said in the dead of night that they “wanted to join Squid Game” before hanging up.
With complaints growing, Netflix said Wednesday it would edit out the phone number.
The company was “working to resolve this matter, including editing scenes showing the phone number where necessary”, Netflix said in a statement.
By this morning the eight-digit number that appears in the first two episodes had been replaced with a six-digit version.
When called, an automated response said: “The number you have dialled is not available.”
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Of course I press the button. If I add up all the extra seconds I’ve saved in my life by doing it I must have saved at least 4 minutes. The fact that I have nothing to do with those extra minutes is another matter…
You could take several additional lift journeys with those four minutes.
Depends. If I see someone running for the lift, I hit that thing with abandon. Normally I can’t be bothered.
Ha, brilliant article and answers. Yes, I just like answering polls.
50% of people like answering polls. That’s nearly half.
…and toy like statistics.
You!
And 5/3 people can’t do fractions.
Ah but do people know the trick… Hold the button and the floor you are going to and it closes immediately and skips all other floors even if the button is pressed on them ;-)
i’m going to either make a tit out of myself trying that or become a legend amongst random lift user’s.. what’s worse is never knowing. Cheer’s for that Paul, I now have something to do on my day off tomorrow :-)
Oh by the way can I change my answer on the poll?? You’ll never guess what I’m after doing, damn my itchy trigger finger…
Not pressing that button in a lift is just daft, on so many levels.
Well done
The close lift doors button usually isn’t even connected to anything.
It’s purpose is merely to give the passenger a sense of control.
I press all the wrong buttons!
Press the button and I hate when the door is about to close and someone puts a foot or a hand in to open it again grrr.
My daughter always presses it cos she hates sharing the lift
You might want to teach her that sharing is what decent human beings do… Just saying.
I never said she was decent, just my daughter, but now I think of it she’s quite lovely thanks, u should browse for more polls, just saying
I press it furiously so I can get the lift to myself because YES I actually do sing to my self with an imaginary microphone, and subsequently accept an imaginary Grammy for my performance when I get it all to myself.
I press the buttons for all the other floors, it gives me great pleasure knowing the next person in the lift will suffer greatly…. Ha Ha Haaaaa..
Where do you get off on this ?
Where?
Usually wherever there’s a lift, the more floors the better.
The key is to hold the button in for greater success!
At the lift at my work we’ve to hold the doors shut with our hands before it’ll move.
‘Pressing issue’…I see what you did there.
Haha Christine you legend!! Best poll of 2015
Some lifts (or elevators) have two sets of buttons for opening and closing. One set (open / close) has a single arrow pair and another set will have double arrows.
But what is not told is the buttons are not connected to the control circuits. They are there to occupy the people in the lift and make them think they are helping them.
Always. Lol
Yes, because I’m an impatient git
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