Netflix K-Drama ‘Dead-End Job’ Looks Like ‘Squid Game’ for Part-Timers

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Netflix K-Drama 'Dead-End Job' Looks Like 'Squid Game' for Part-Timers

This one got past me when it was released, but it looks good. Dead-End Job is a new South Korean series that began streaming on Netflix on October 30.

Dead-End Job is about a mysterious employment agency that sends workers to jobs that pay extraordinarily high hourly wages, but also come with an extraordinarily high risk of death. Hyuk‑jun is a young man desperate to get out of debt, so he takes a job from the employment agency which is where the focus of the story begins. He survives his first job, but his nightmare jobs are only beginning.

The show is listed on Netflix as a limited series, and each of its eight episodes are between 33 and 44 minutes long. It looks fun, and as a big fan of shows like Squid Game and the Japanese survival-game series Alice in Borderland, Dead-End Job looks like it fits into that category.

Netflix K-Drama 'Dead-End Job' Looks Like 'Squid Game' for Part-Timers
Netflix K-Drama 'Dead-End Job' Looks Like 'Squid Game' for Part-Timers
Netflix K-Drama 'Dead-End Job' Looks Like 'Squid Game' for Part-Timers
Netflix K-Drama 'Dead-End Job' Looks Like 'Squid Game' for Part-Timers
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Chris has a degree in film studies at Temple University’s campus in Tokyo, Japan. He is a renowned expert on horror cinema.