'Violence in Squid Game is very lifelike, but it's figurative and allegorical', says creator Hwang Dong-hyuk

'Squid Game' became the most-watched Netflix content of all time, with an aggregate 1.65 billion hours of streaming in the first four weeks of release on September 17.

Seoul: Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of 'Squid Game', has said the smash-hit Netflix series was intended to pose questions about modern capitalist society that corners people into extreme competition.

"I thought capitalism has shown its own limitations in the 21st century," Hwang said in an online speech at a forum organised by SBS TV, reports Yonhap. "Everybody faces fiercely competitive situations and they are dragged down to the rock bottom of society if they fail to survive the competition."

In 'Squid Game', Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, the final winner of the deadly contest of heavily debt-ridden people to win 45.6 billion won (USD 38.9 million) in prize money, is one of the victims of the capitalist society that made him struggle with business failures, a divorce and heavy indebtedness.