

“That reminded me of my co-workers who died.” “In ‘Squid Game,’ you see characters scrambling to survive after being laid off at work, struggling to operate fried chicken diners or working as ‘daeri’ drivers,” who get paid for driving drunk people home in their own cars, Lee said. But not before a spate of suicides among co-workers and family members who were plunged into financial misery. “Some scenes were very hard to watch,” said Lee, a worker at South Korea’s Ssangyong Motors who struggled with financial difficulties and depression after the carmaker laid him and 2,600 other employees off while filing for bankruptcy protection in 2009.Īfter years of protests, court battles and government intervention, Lee and hundreds of other Ssangyong workers returned to work in recent years. It is raising disturbing questions about the future of one of Asia’s wealthiest economies, where people who once crowed about the “Miracle of the Han River” now moan about “Hell Joseon,” a sarcastic reference to a hierarchical kingdom that ruled Korea before the 20th century. The South Korea-produced show pits Seong against hundreds of other financially distressed players in a hyper-violent competition for the ultimate prize, with losers being killed at every round. Seong gets beaten by gangster creditors into signing off his organs as collateral, but then receives a mysterious offer to play in a series of six traditional Korean children’s games for a shot at winning $38 million. In the dystopian horrors of “Squid Game,” Lee sees a reflection of himself in the show’s protagonist Seong Gi-hun, a laid-off autoworker coping with a broken family and struggling with constant business failures and gambling problems. It has struck raw nerves at home, where there’s growing discontent over soaring personal debt, decaying job markets and stark income inequalities worsened by financial crises in the past two decades. The show has captivated global audiences since its September debut on its way to becoming Netflix’s biggest hit ever. *”Shosetsuka ni Naro” is a registered trademark of HinaProject Inc.SEOUL: “Squid Game,” a brutal Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children’s games for a chance to escape severe debt, hit a little too close to home for Lee Chang-keun. The novel is currently published as separate volumes on GC Novels (Micromagazine/Illustrations: mitz_vah) (Kodansha “Monthly Shonen Sirius” Serial Publication/Manga: Taiki Kawakami). Ten-Sura is a comic adaptation of a novel with the same title published on the Japanese user-generated novel publishing website “Shosetusuka ni Naro” by Mr. From 2018 – 2019 the first anime was aired and garnered wide acclaim paving the way for a follow-up due to air in 2020. In this new world where various races live together he decides to accept his fate and works to create a happy nation where race isn’t an issue! Ten-Sura is extremely popular with more than 12 million copies sold across the entire series.

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