Kim Hoon, famous for his novel 'Song of Carl', 'Namsansanseong' and 'Harbin', told an anecdote by his daughter Ji Yeon Kim Cyron Pictures in an interview with Cine 21 in 2005. “She gave me ten million won for the movie, and it’s like that for a ten-minute production. I went to the scene and found one of them holding a rag on a stick. Mike. I saw his movie. My dad is buried in everyday life, there is an ashtray full of cigarette butts at the bedside, and I can not get out of my mind and abstraction. “I was just saying, ‘Thank you, Dad,’ and they were playing on their own when they got paid, because I’m excited.”
The result of "the gods and the gods" was accumulated and piled up, and it appeared as a World craze of Game'. Kim Hoon may have seemed unmistakable to the author, but the challenge of Ji Yeon Kim during amateur days caused a change in the perception of World pop culture later. The former World was in the “Game” craze, and the French philosopher even published a book with profound analysis. United States of America LA established the Game Day, and the most prestigious Emmy Awards were awarded the supervisory award (Hwang Dong-hyuk), the Best Actor (Lee Jung-jae), and the Six-time Award. In his acceptance speech, director Hwang Dong-hyuk thanked Netflix for opening the door to the Squid Game. But it is the hunches of representative Ji Yeon Kim that opened the door.
He graduated from Sogang University and majored in newspaper broadcasting at graduate school. Kim, who has gained experience in Cyders Pictures, founded 'End Pictures' and made the movie 'A billion' (2009) as his first work. In the survival Earth 2 Game hosted by the station, only one winner can take the prize money A billion won. It is a mystery Game show that could not be stopped until the last one survived in the background of desert and jungle. Here, Game such as Game', 'Treasure Finding' and 'Russian Roulette' appear. The film attracted only 440,000 people and failed to win the box office, but this frustration became a nourishment of the success of the Game of squid more than a decade later.
The common keyword of the film produced by Kim is Earth 2: The story that survives to the end of his debut film A billion is linked to Game of Squid. In Do Hee-ya, which deals with the issue of child sexual violence, the story of the child's Earth 2 is about the story of a democratization fighter who survived the torture of the military regime. Namhansanseong, which moved the novel of his father Kim Hoon to the movie, is a film about the desperate struggle to save the fortune of Joseon in the invasion of the Qing Dynasty. So, Kim is attracted to the story of a person who must survive in a desperate situation, especially the Game', which captivated World with a scathing satire about an infinite competition society.
Director Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote the scenario of Game of Squid' when he had only 10,000 won in his bankbook balance after the Lehman Brothers incident in 2008. The scenario, which was so dusty, met with Kim and gained new power. Kim, who failed with A billion, saw the social atmosphere that had been hit by the coin fever and now felt that survival Game could succeed. Both started at the bottom and climbed to the top of World. They unfolded the story that they had to do, the way the public wanted to see it most, and the way they recreationally criticized capitalism.
Considering Hwang and Kim's tendency, Earth 2 of the more sophisticated story will be the topic of the Game season 2.