A South Korean woman has been deluged with thousands of prank calls and text messages since the hit Netflix show Squid Game broadcast her phone number onscreen.
Kim Gil-young, who owns a business in the southeastern county of Seongju, told local broadcaster SBS last month that she has received thousands of messages and phone calls from people asking to join the Squid Game and go 'from rags to riches.'
In the show, which premiered in the United States on September 17 and has since become an international hit, desperate people are given calling cards with a phone number to call if they want to participate in the Squid Games - a series of deadly children's games - in a bid to win 45.6 billion won (equivalent to $38.3 million).
In the first episode of the nine-part thriller, Gong Yoo, who plays an unnamed character, gives Ki-hoon (played by Lee Jung-jae) the card, which shows Gil-young's actual eight digit phone number.
Netflix and Siren Pictures now say they will edit the phone number out of the show and have asked fans to restrain from prank calls and text messages.
Kim Gil-young, a South Korean business owner, told SBS last month that she has received thousands of messages and phone calls from people asking to join the Squid Games
In the show, Gong Yoo, who plays an unnamed character, gives Ki-hoon (played by Lee Jung-jae) a calling card to join the Squid Games
The card, displayed prominently in the show, featured Gil-young's actual phone number
Gil-young said she has been using the phone number featured in the show for more than 10 years, and last week, she told Money Today that she had received thousands of calls and text messages since the show debuted.
'Since the airing of Squid Game, I received so many texts and calls 24 hours a day that my life has become difficult,' she said. 'I have deleted more than 4,000 phone numbers
