Squid Game Composer Jung Jae-il Embarks on World Tour

The nightmarish sounds of Squid Game composer Jung Jae-il: ‘Having no identity very much defines my identity’

Korean composer behind Netflix’s most-watched series on world tour celebrating calculated imperfection in his scores Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If you were among the 265 million viewers who made Squid Game Netflix’s most-watched series so far, you were likely left mentally and aurally scarred by first season’s end, traumatised by the discordant whistle of a child’s recorder; the sheer banality of a primary school music room reimagined as a herald of human carnage. That soun...

By Kelly Burke