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The owner of a stall selling the traditional South Korean sweet featured in the series "The Squid Game" won the lottery with the Netflix show.
The series shows a group of indebted South Koreans competing in childish games to compete for $38 million (33 million euros) in prizes, with lethal consequences.
In one of the challenges, participants must cut shapes like stars or umbrellas out of a candy called dalgona without breaking, and whoever fails dies.
The life-and-death game was inspired by the experiences of director Hwang Dong-hyuk during his childhood in Seoul in the 1970s: back then, according to Milenio, the prize for the child who managed to make the shape was another dalgona.
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