![]() ![]() The room is sparsely decorated with all 456 mattresses stacked in rows on scaffolding, hiding the walls. Once he enters the van, he is also knocked out and then he wakes up in a dorm room where he and the other players of the game sleep. Upon meeting Gi-Hun enters a van filled with other players, all of whom are passed out. He is then given a brown card with a number on the back which gives him a time and place to meet. ![]() They play for a while before Seong gives up, his face black and blue. The man propositions him, offering to play a game called ‘“ddakji.” Every time Gi-Hun wins he will earn 10,000 won, but if he loses he’ll get slapped. Gi-Hun trudges out of the betting facility to the subway where he plans to take a train home, only to meet a man in a business-suit holding a briefcase. Gi-Hun wins one of the jackpots that would’ve been used to pay off the debt he owes to the loan-sharks, only to bump into a pick-pocket named Kang Sae-byeok, played by Jung Ho-yeon, who steals his winnings while he is discombobulated. Gi-Hun complains to his mother that she did not give him enough money to give his daughter a birthday present, only for him to steal her credit card once she leaves and use it to bet on horses. He’s a lazy deadbeat dad who lives with his mother in a small two- room apartment in one of the many alleys of the city Ssangmun-dong. In the first episode, the show opens in the apartment of Seong Gi-Hun played by the actor Lee Jung-jae. The popular Korean drama-thriller series released back in September and has quickly become one of my favourite shows. “Squid Game” touches on the number of struggles people face when it comes to money, debt, and divorce, it also reveals problematic issues in capitalistic societies. “Squid Game” is a modern-day “Hunger Games” that showcases the lengths people will go to get out of debt.Ī majority of the scenes in this show are very gorey, but over time when you become desensitised to the violence, you see how good of a show it is. ![]()
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