Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and star Lee Jung-jae both made history with their wins.
The smash-hit show, about a group of people facing financial trouble who play each other in life-or-death win money, is the first South Korean series and the first television series not in English to win at the awards, theHwang Dong-hyuk, creator of Netflix's most-watched series of all time, won the drama directing Emmy — making him both the first Asian and Korean person to win the award, per the L.A. Times.
Series star Lee Jung-jae became the first person from a foreign-language show to win a best actor in a drama Emmy Award, the
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