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Netflix’s Squid Game — a South Korean show in which working-class people compete in life or death children’s games — may be the streamer’s most popular show of all time, but it has gotten some knocks when it comes to its English subtitles, which some say miss crucial cultural context. …

This post contains some spoilers for the first season of Squid Game, available now on Netflix. Red light, green light. Tug of war. Marbles. These are, as Seong Gi-hun and the other main characters of Netflix’s South Korean drama series Squid Game will repeatedly observe, games designed for children. Eventually, …