LOS ANGELES — “Squid Game” didn’t just have a big night at the Emmys. It had a historic one.
After earning 14 nominations in July, as well as prizes from the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics Choice Awards earlier this year, Netflix’s brutal blockbuster capped off its run Monday by becoming the first Korean series, and the first TV series not in English, to win a major Primetime Emmy Award.
The series, about a deadly game of survival in which contestants with money troubles compete for a cash prize, earned series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk the Emmy for drama series directing, “Squid Game’s” first prize of the night. He is the first Asian and first native Korean to take home the award. (Hwang, however, was bested by “Succession’s” Jesse Armstrong for the drama series writing award, and defending champion “Succession” also beat out “Squid Game” for the drama series Emmy.)
