A North Korean man will reportedly be sentenced to death for smuggling & selling copies of Netflix's hit TV series Squid Game after several high school students were reportedly caught watching the show in class.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported this week that the man allegedly acquired a copy of the dystopian South Korean show in China & illegally smuggled it into North Korea. Copies of the show were then allegedly sold on USB flash drives & SD cards.
The alleged smuggler, whose name was not released, will reportedly be sentenced to death via a firing squad. Additionally, one student who purchased a USB drive reportedly received a life sentence in prison, while six others who were caught watching the show were sentenced to five years hard labor, sources told the news outlet.
Some of the students' teachers & administrators have also reportedly been fired over the incident, & sources told RFA they believed that those teachers & administrators would also be sent to work at hard labor or face exile to rural sections of the country.
Last year, North Korea passed the Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture act, which prohibits the entry & dissemination of materials including films, plays, music and books into the country. The law is particularly aimed at preventing the spread of media from capitalist nations including South Korea & the U.S., & anyone violating the law could face life in prison or death.
This incident marks the first time North Korean authorities are applying the recently passed act to minors, according to RFA. Now, authorities are scouring markets for memory storage devices & video CDs containing any foreign media.
Squid Game has become Netflix's most-watched show ever, ranking first in 94 countries and viewed in 142 million homes worldwide after only a month, according to the company's third-quarter earnings report. The series is also the first Korean original to top Netflix's consumer-facing Top 10 popularity chart.
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Source: Newsweek
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