| Sung Ki-hoon in the Netflix drama ‘Squid Game’ / Photo = Courtesy of Netflix |
Sung Ki-hoon, born in 1974. He is a laid-off worker for 16 years. After the dismissal, he builds a chicken house and runs his life as a substitute driver. Then, the game that I participated in was the ‘Squid Game’. Ten years ago, Ki-hoon, an assembly worker at Dragon Motors, fought against restructuring and lost a colleague in the process.
Sung Ki-hoon, who appears in the Netflix drama ‘Squid Game’, is reminiscent of a laid-off worker at Ssangyong Motor. In fact, director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who directed ‘Squid Game’, said through a video press conference, “I was receiving news from mass layoffs and strikes due to restructuring, subsequent lawsuits and struggles for reinstatement, and extreme choices of laid-off workers and their families.” I wanted to show through the gihoon that it can fall to the bottom due to layoffs and failure of self-employment, and that it can happen to anyone.”
Seong Ki-hoon was born with reference to the Ssangyong Motor crisis.
| Sung Ki-hoon in the Netflix drama ‘Squid Game’ / Photo = Courtesy of Netflix |
Ki-Hoon Sung, who was fired from ‘Dragon Motors’ in the drama, is replaced by Mr. Chang-Geun Lee, who was fired from Ssangyong Motor in real life.
On the 27th, Lee Chang-geun posted on his Facebook page titled ‘Squid Game, Ssangyong’s laid-off workers, and let’s live together’.
In the article, Mr. Lee said, “The only thing I pay attention to in the squid game is why Sung Ki-hoon was a laid-off worker at Ssangyong Motor. The part where you were sleeping,” he wrote. He added, “I feel like I have received great comfort, although my curiosity has not gone away,” he said.
He continued, “Sung Ki-hoon (played by Lee Jung-jae), a laid-off worker, is also my age because he was born in 1974, so he is one of the 2,646 Ssangyong employees. That is why it is not a leap forward for Sung Ki-hoon to think of his colleague being killed by riot police in front of his eyes.”
| Netflix drama ‘Squid Game’ poster / Photo = Courtesy of Netflix |
Mr. Lee emphasized, “Sung Ki-hoon uses shallow numbers, but he does not abandon the dignity of human beings.
He also said, “Even at the last moment, Sung Ki-hoon chooses people over money. And he wants to live.” He also said, “The director responded to the words ‘Let’s live together’ shouted by the laid-off workers of Ssangyong Motor through this drama.”
In addition, “I think that Ki-hoon Sung’s attitude in an extreme situation is not a person’s original nature, but rather an argument as a social relational existence that he expresses in the most painful social relationships and points he has been through.” It is a topic that can be considered sufficiently.”
Finally, Mr. Lee said, “I want to say thank you to the director.”
| Park Hae-soo, Lee Jung-jae, and Jeong Ho-yeon appearing in the Netflix drama ‘Squid Game / Photo = Courtesy of Netflix |
Sung Ki-hoon in ‘Squid Game’ speaks to game designers.
“I’m not talking. I’m a human. So I wonder, who you are. How can you do this to a person?”
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