With the writers’ and actors’ guilds striking in the U.S., many assumed that studios and streamers would have to rely on their international titles. Few have a better cache than Netflix: the streamer’s been working hard to establish their own hubs in countries like South Korea. And their efforts have been met with incredible success, especially when it comes to runaway hits like Squid Game. There are hundreds of international titles on the platform, and Netflix seems more than willing to rely on them to weather the storm. They’ve already poured billions of dollars into the Korean film industry — but concerns over where the money is going might have just damned the streamer’s future plans.
