By Kim Eunhee and Lee Jihae

Several Korean dramas have taken the world by storm, thus Korea.net in the third week of this month received quite a few Honorary Reporter articles on such series. 

■Animation studio discusses hit Korean series 'Yumi's Cells' (Oshini Jayamuni From Sri Lanka in English)

"Yumi's Cells," based on the webtoon of the same title, is an innovative TV series that combines 3D animation and live action. Honorary Reporter Oshini Jayamuni from Sri Lanka on Nov. 15 held a written interview with Fred Stiehl, manager of the Content Business Team at Sidus Animation Studios, which produced the animation in the series.

Stiehl said the team produced realistic looking cells as its top priority was making the cells that were two dimensional in the webtoon look realistic and three dimensional on screen, and his team created several models to that end. Check out Jayamuni's article for more backstories on the series. 

Poster for TV series "Yumi's Cells" (tvN)

■ Le Monde gives reasons behind global success of 'Squid Game' (No Yon Kwon Grimbert from France in French)

This Honorary Reporter article covered the French daily Le Monde's Oct. 26 podcast that analyzed the Netflix smash series "Squid Game."

Titled "Squid Game: Reasons for its Global Success," the podcast explained how the series took social media by storm and the commercialization of the items that appeared in it, adding that the plot of risking life for survival befits the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Grimbert said "Squid Game" was talked enough to be mentioned by Le Monde and that the standing of Korean dramas was high. 

The French daily Le Monde in a podcast analyzed the success of the hit Korean series "Squid Game." (Screen capture from Le Monde's homepage)

■Series Tips: Brand new K-dramas that take your breath away (Jasmin Mikolay from Germany in German)

This story was on the popular Korean dramas "Hellbound" on Netflix and "Chimera" on the Korean cable movie channel OCN and the anticipation surrounding them before their releases. Mikolay described "Chimera," a crime thriller about an explosion of serial murders, as being "full of action and suspense."

"Hellbound," dubbed "the next Squid Game," was the first Korean TV series to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. It topped the TV show category worldwide on Netflix within a day of its release. Mikolay said the fantasy-horror series will follow in the footsteps of "Squid Game" to lead the K-drama boom worldwide.

A scene from the hit Korean Netflix series "Hellbound"