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What ‘Dead-End Job’ Knows About Korea

November 5, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Bank of Korea, BTS, capitalism, chaebols, class struggle, Dead-End Job, Dead-End Job Netflix, declining birth rate, dystopian fiction, economic inequality, economic satire, elderly poverty, employment agencies, fertility crisis, Fifty Times the Minimum Wage, financial desperation, generational poverty, giant rats, gig economy, honjok, horror comedy, Hyeok-jun, Hyundai, job insecurity, K-drama, K-pop, killer clowns, Korean drama, Korean economy, Korean horror, Korean horror comedy, Korean labor market, Korean pop culture, Korean society, Korean television, Korean Wave, labor exploitation, LG, loan sharks, minimum wage, monster movies, Netflix, Netflix reviews, Netflix series, OECD, Parasite, personal debt, precarious employment, psychological horror, social isolation, social satire, South Korea, South Korean youth, Spider staffing agency, Squid Game, Streaming Television, suicide crisis, supernatural horror, survival horror, television reviews, underemployment, workplace horror, workplace safety, youth unemployment

The agency that finds people jobs of horror is portrayed as the most honest part of life in the country

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Netflix and the Lost Churros

October 30, 2026October 29, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Academy Awards, Animals, audience engagement, Bela Bajaria, Below, Ben Affleck, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Bridgerton, content strategy, corporate entertainment, creative quality, crime thrillers, Dark, Elon Musk, Emmys, entertainment industry, film criticism, giant squid, Gillian Anderson, Golden Globes, Hollywood, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, Josh Hartnett, Kerry Washington, La Casa De Papel, Luis Elizondo, Lupin, maritime horror, Mindhunter, monster movies, movie reviews, Netflix, Netflix advertising, Netflix and the Lost Churros, Netflix layoffs, Netflix leadership, Netflix miniseries, Netflix movies, Netflix originals, Netflix stock, Nielsen ratings, original programming, Peter Rice, Robert De Niro, science fiction horror, Squid Game, Stranger Things, streaming competition, streaming economics, streaming industry, streaming reviews, streaming services, streaming wars, Television Criticism, television viewership, The OA, The Whisper Man, UFOs, Wednesday, YouTube

What ‘Animals’ and ‘Below’ tell us about the streaming giant

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Netflix: Watching the Juggernaut in the First Half of 2025

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments A House of Dynamite, Adam Sandler, Adolescence, Amazon Prime Video, Back in Action, Black Mirror season 7, Cameron Diaz, Carl Sagan, Dept. Q, Disney, Evoca.tv, Frankenstein, George Clooney, Guillermo del Toro, Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx, Jay Kelly, Katheryn Bigelow, Luminate, McDonald's, Mia Goth, Missing You, Money Heist, Netflix, Noah Baumbach, Orange Is The New Black, Oscar Isaac, Ozark, Prime Video, Rebecca Ferguson, Sofia Carson, Spotify, Squid Game, Squid Game season two, Statista, Straw, The Life List, Tyler Perry, Zero Day

The streaming platform is racking up galactic numbers

The Squid Game Finale: Long Live the Bumfight, Death to the Allegory

July 2, 2025July 13, 2025 William Schwartz 0 Comments Bong Joon-Ho, Cate Blanchett, Hwang Dong-hyuk, Netflix, South Korea, Squid Game, Squid Game 3

The Korean murder-thon seems oddly disinterested in real or plausible dysfunction

June

Everything That’s Streaming In June 2025

June 2, 2025June 5, 2025 Jake Harris 0 Comments Bryce Dallas Howard, Dan Trachtenberg, Deep Cover, Ironheart, Nautilus, Owen Wilson, Predator: Killer of Killers, Squid Game, Stick, Straw, Taraji P. Henson, The Bear, The Day The Earth Blew Up, Tyler Perry

Season four of ‘The Bear,’ the end of ‘Squid Game,’ and much more!

Black Orb

‘The Black Orb’ Hovers Over North America

February 25, 2025February 27, 2025 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Ewhan Kim, Sean Lin Halbert, Squid Game, The Black Orb

South Korea’s bestselling sci-fi novel of the last 20 years has arrived to terrify English-language readers

South Korean

South Korean Dramas: The Year in Review

December 27, 2024December 27, 2024 William Schwartz 0 Comments A Shop For Killers, Chicken Nugget, Gong Yoo, Gyeongseong Creature, Light Shop, Pachinko, Song Kang-ho, South Korea, Squid Game, The Trunk, Uncle Sam Shik

There are many South Korean shows to watch on American streaming services. That doesn’t mean anyone is watching them.

Beast Games

‘The Beast Games’ Have Begun

December 21, 2024December 27, 2024 Robert Dean 0 Comments MrBeast, Squid Game, The Beast Games

A dystopian game show for dystopian times

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Nothing Can Challenge Netflix

October 28, 2024October 31, 2024 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Disney, Jane Campion, Martin Scorsese, Max, Netflix, Noah Baumbach, Paramount, Rian Johnson, Squid Game, Stranger Things, Susanne Bier, The Coen Brothers, Wednesday, Which means it acquired the services of directors including Alfonso Cuaron

Look at the numbers. The streaming service has disrupted all aspects of the industry.

Squid Game

Hug It Out With ‘Squid Game’

December 13, 2023December 15, 2023 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Squid Game, Squid Game: The Challenge, Survivor

One of the great TV shows of all time mutates into just another sobby reality-show elimination-fest

November

Everything That’s Streaming in November 2023

November 1, 2023November 7, 2023 Jake Harris 0 Comments Albert Brooks, All The Light We Cannot See, Baz Luhrmann, Black Cake, Dashing Through the Snow, David Fincher, Faraway Downs, Fingernails, Hugh Jackman, Invincible, Kurt Russell, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Ludacris, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Nicole Kidman, Rob Reiner, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Squid Game, The Killer, Wyatt Russell

Godzilla, Scott Pilgrim, James Bond, AND Albert Brooks AND more

Is This the End of South Korean Film?

September 5, 2023September 12, 2023 William Schwartz 0 Comments Alien Baseball Team, Madame Freedom, Mist, Oldboyd, Parasite, Park Chan-Wook, South Korea, Squid Game, The Housemaid, The Marines Who Never Returned

There’s a reason the festival retrospectives don’t contain much from the present day

Beef

Here’s the ‘Beef’

April 10, 2023April 17, 2023 Susie Bright 0 Comments Ali Wong, beef, Lee Sung Jin, Squid Game, Steven Yeun

Netflix gets its groove back, and then some, with a wicked road-rage revenge thriller/farce

All of Use Are Dead

‘All of Us Are Dead’: a Quiet Korean Zombie Invasion

February 15, 2022April 3, 2022 William Schwartz 0 Comments All of Us Are Dead, Joseon, Money Heist, Netflix, Parasite, Squid Game

Explaining the lack of coverage of the latest South Korean hit

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South Korean Dramas: It’s Not Just Squid Game

October 13, 2021October 14, 2021 William Schwartz 0 Comments Devil Judge, Flix Patrol, Gong Yoo, Hellbound, Hwang Dong-hyuk, Parasite, South Korea, Squid Game, Train To Busan, Vincenzo, Yeon Sang-ho

Other notable shows from the world’s trendiest entertainment market

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