(CNN) -- Si has visto la exitosa serie de Netflix "El juego del calamar", los inocentes juegos para niños como tira y afloja y luz roja, luz verde, podrían haber adquirido un significado completamente nuevo para ti.
For his creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk, they were part of his childhood in South Korea."We have all played those simple and childish games at some point," he told CNN.
Among which Hwang played when he was a child was the "squid game", a team game in which the attackers break through a squid -shaped area, with defenders trying to stop them."He was very physically demanding, so every time we played someone injured, the clothes were torn or cried," he said."It would always be the last game of the day".
"Having grown up to becoming an adult, the question 'What would it be like to return and play those childhood games again?'It was the beginning of the creation of the entire series ".
"The squid game" tells the story of indebted contestants fighting in a series of mortal children's games, and for Hwang, the narrative of the program reflects the "competitive society" in which we live today.
"This is a story about losers," he said: Those who fight with the challenges of everyday life and are left behind, while the "winners rise level".
This series, launched in September, is on the way to becoming the most popular Netflix program, having reached number one in 90 countries, including United States.
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Production: producing the program was an intense experience, so Hwang lost six teeth while filming due to stress.But he has not completely removed the idea of making a second season.
"On my left side, I still don't have two molars.I need implants but I haven't had time, "said Hwang.
"Writing, producing and directing a series was really really a great task.When I think about doing the same for the second season, I am personally a little worried, "he said."There is nothing confirmed at the moment, but many people are excited that I really are contemplating it.".
The story: Hwang had the idea of history more than a decade ago, but there was no interest in taking it to the screen."In the past people said 'This story is very strange, it is very distant to reality.'.Now, people are saying 'if there were games, I think I would play' or 'this game surely exists somewhere in the world', "said Hwang.
"It's a sad story," he added and indicated that the world became a place where "the squid game" fits better than 10 years ago.
The characters: some are based on Hwang's life, including their names.The two main characters, Seong Gi-Hun and Cho Sang-Woo, bear the name of their old friends, and he calls them their "internal clones".
"They represent my two sides.Like Gi-Hun, I was raised by a single mother in an environment with financial problems in Ssangmun-Dong, "Hwang explained."And my grandmother would place a mat on the market to sell vegetables," he added.
"At the same time, like Sang-Woo, I went to the National University of Seoul and all my neighborhood praised me and I had great expectations of me.".
The most memorable scene: for Hwang it was the last meeting between Il-Nam and Gi-Hun."There is a kind of feeling in my heart, I don't know how to name it, possibly a catharsis, a world that I want to believe there is.It is my reason to have created this series...My hope in humanity ".
The future of "The Calamar Games": Hwang left the end open for a reason."There are some soil ends and I would like to explore them if I were going to do a second season," he said."Explain the Past of the Frontman, the story of the detective June", as well as develop the story of the man who challenged Seong Gi-hun to a game of Ttakji (the square papers in red and blue color).
"Writing, producing and directing a series was really really a very big task.When I plan to do the same for season two, personally worries me.There is nothing confirmed at the moment, but there are many enthusiastic people who really make me contemplate it ".
