The second season of Squid Game, a popular dystopian series, is set to premiere this month. The show's creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, has revealed that the experiences of the main character, Gi-hun, were inspired by the violent Ssangyong strikes of 2009.
Guests dressed like participants of Squid Games attend the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles premiere and fan event for Netflix's'Squid Game: Season 2' on Dec 12, 2024. - AFP SEOUL: A factory turned into a battlefield, riot police armed with tasers and an activist who spent 100 days atop a chimney -- the unrest that inspired Netflix's most successful show ever has all the hallmarks of a TV drama.
This month sees the release of the second season of'Squid Game', a dystopian vision of South Korea where desperate people compete in deadly versions of traditional children's games for a massive cash prize. But while the show itself is a work of fiction, Hwang Dong-hyuk, its director and writer, has said the experiences of the main character Gi-hun, a laid-off worker, were inspired by the violent Ssangyong strikes in 2009. 'I wanted to show that any ordinary middle-class person in the world we live in today can fall to the bottom of the economic ladder overnight,' he has said. In May 2009, Ssangyong, a struggling car giant taken over by a consortium of banks and private investors, announced it was laying off more than 2,600 people, or nearly 40 per cent of its workforce. That was the beginning of an occupation of the factory and a 77-day strike that ended in clashes between strikers armed with slingshots and steel pipes and riot police wielding rubber bullets and tasers.Lee Chang-kun held a sit-in for 100 days on top of one of the factory's chimneys to protest a sentence in favour of Ssangyong against the strikers. - AFP Five years later, union leader Lee Chang-kun held a sit-in for 100 days on top of one of the factory's chimneys to protest a sentence in favour of Ssangyong against the strikers. He was supplied with food from a basket attached to a rope by supporters and endured hallucinations of a tent rope transformed into a writhing snake. Some who experienced the unrest struggled to discuss'Squid Game' because of the trauma they endured, Lee told AF
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