YouTuber creates real-life 'Squid Game' with top prize of $456,000
![A screen-captured image from YouTuber MrBeast's video ″$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life″ shows a contestant playing the 'dalgona' game featured first in the original Netflix Korea show ″Squid Game.″ [SCREEN CAPTURE]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2021/11/29/cfc313c2-7834-4521-8d0c-ae2beeace7a1.jpg)
A screen-captured image from YouTuber MrBeast's video ″$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life″ shows a contestant playing the 'dalgona' game featured first in the original Netflix Korea show ″Squid Game.″ [SCREEN CAPTURE]
Netflix’s hit show “Squid Game” came to life thanks to a YouTuber named MrBeast. The American creator released a video of a game he set up with 456 contestants on Nov. 25.
The video “$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life!” had already been viewed over 108 million times as of 5 p.m. Monday.
The winner of the games took home $456,000, while the runner-up earned $10,000. Some other participants were also awarded prizes of $2,000.
It is reported that MrBeast could have earned in the region of $450,000 from the views already on the video.
BY LEE SUN-MIN [summerlee@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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