Squid game: Agency launches criticism for showing a real phone

After learning that the phone number that appears in the series “squid game, also known assquid game“It is true that the real owner has been seriously affected after receiving more than 4,000 calls per day, a media regulator has severely criticized the Netflix production.

communications office, Ofcom, is the English government’s approved watchdog for the broadcast, telecommunications and postal industries, and its spokesmen did not fall silent after world news reached even a Korean presidential candidate, who offered more than $80,000 to the owner of the phone line.

The Korean phone number is printed on a card seen in the first chapter of the series, which promises to be the most watched in the history of the streaming platform.

“A man has been harassed by ‘thousands’ of calls after his number appeared on the Netflix ‘Squid Game’. When you see or hear a British phone number on a radio or television programme, it is from a list of a special number of numbers that we show you have been booked for that specific use”, This is what was stated in one of the Instagram stories of the agency.

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Things I Didn’t Expect to See: Ofcom’s entry into the Squid game. pic.twitter.com/LQ8jLwfYtu

– Scott Bryan (@scottygb) September 30, 2021

Effect “squid game“It was so Huh Kyung YoungThe Honorary Chairman of the National Revolutionary Party posted on Facebook: “I heard that the owner of the phone number shown on the business card in the Squid Game is seriously damaged by pranks. I would like to buy the number for 100 million. Won,” he wrote.