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Korea has selected the disaster thriller Concrete Utopia starring Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-jun as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

Netflix is currently in talks to stream upcoming Korean blockbuster The Match exclusively on its platform.South Korean news outlet The Korea Herald reported on October 12 that The Match – which stars Squid Game’s Lee Byung-hun and Hellbound’s Yoo Ah-in as its leading stars – is currently considering forgoing a theatrical release in favour of a Netflix premiere.The producers of The Match had reportedly previously sorted out a release date for its theatrical premiere, but are now in talks to change tactics considering local movie theatre attendance has yet to improve since the ease of COVID-19 restrictions in South Korea. However, representatives of Netflix told The Korea Herald that “nothing has been decided yet”.Based on true events, The Match follows the tale of two notable Go (a traditional Chinese board game) players set in the ’80s and ’90s.

Squid Game has shown how much CGI was actually used in the series.The video was uploaded by Kim Hyung-rok, a CG supervisor on Squid Game from the South Korea-based Gulliver Studios. The two-minute-long video showcases just how much CGI was used in the popular Netflix series, including the rat that appears when Kang Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon) as she crawls through the air vents and the Glass Bridge challenge.Other components of the show that incorporated heavy use if CGI include the walls and arena of the Red Light, Green Light challenge, the island the show took place on, and the show’s iconic maze-like staircase structure.Squid Game, which was released in September, has since become Netflix’s most-watched series ever.