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    Nobody wanted to make 'Squid Game.' Now it's making history

    by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times Aug 03, 2022 6 minutes
    Hwang Dong- hyuk, left, and Lee Jung-jae attend the Los Angeles screening of Netflix' s "Squid Game" on Nov. 8, 2021, in Hollywood, California.

    LOS ANGELES — For a very long time, no one wanted to make "Squid Game." No one, that is, but creator-writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk. Then one of Korea's biggest stars, suave box office champion Lee Jung-jae, signed on to play the show's grubby, compromised hero, and the deeply symbolic, meticulously designed, bare-knuckle commentary on the chasm between Haves and Have-nots took off, becoming Netflix's most popular series to date.

    Now it has 14 Emmy nominations, including for Hwang's writing and directing, Lee's acting and for drama series. It's the first foreign-language series to receive nods in any of those categories, as well as in many others.

    "The Oscars are more global; the Emmys are very American. I'm very thankful for them opening the doors to non-English content for the first time," says Hwang by Zoom.

    "I think the show resonated with the global audience because we have a lot of visual aspects besides the language — we have symbols,

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