Anyone who watched the second season of Squid Game may have noticed that the phone number given to participants was different from the one shown in the first season. And there is a reason for that.
It turns out that, in the first season, the phone number given to the Recruiter for Gi-hun, player 456, was an eight-digit number that perfectly matched the phone number of a South Korean woman, if you add the prefix 010.
Unfortunately for Kim Gil-young, a resident of Seongju who owned this phone number, people who watched the show began calling her, and Gil-young was flooded with countless calls daily.
Gil-young explained that she used this number for her business in 2021, as she was self-employed, and had to endure calls and texts from fans of the show 24 hours a day.
“Since the airing of Squid Game, I’ve been getting text messages and calls 24 hours a day, making it difficult to live my daily life. This is a number I’ve used for over 10 years, so I’m quite surprised. There are over 4,000 numbers I’ve had to delete from my phone,” she lamented to Money Today at the time.
“I receive calls out of curiosity day and night, with no sense of time, to the point where my phone battery runs out by midday. At first, I didn’t know what it meant, but I found out when my friends told me: ‘Your number is in Squid Game.’”
Gil-young complained to Netflix and the producer Siren Pictures, who had to take steps to remove her phone number from the scenes where it appeared in the series.
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