Regarding the fact that the main character in the Netflix original drama ‘Squid Game’ appeared as a laid-off worker for ‘Dragon Motors’, which is reminiscent of Ssangyong Motors, a Ssangyong Motor worker said, “If there is an opportunity, I would like to meet the director and talk.”
On the 27th, Lee Chang-geun, who was fired from Ssangyong Motor, said in a Facebook post, “The squid game, the laid-off workers of Ssangyong Motor, and let’s live together.”
Lee said, “During the Chuseok holiday, my colleagues around me ‘must see’ it, but they paid attention to ‘the scene where my colleagues were beaten up by the police'” and said that at first, the thought of watching the drama went away. Lee knows that repeatedly replaying scenes of Ssangyong’s colleagues being assaulted doesn’t help in starting our lives over again, but he said, “I thought I should check it because Shinsegae Jung Yong-jin saw something and posted something.” told
He said that he wondered why the main character Sung Ki-hoon (Lee Jung-jae) was a laid-off worker at Ssangyong Motors, and paid attention to the reason the director made this setting and what message he was trying to convey.
In the play, Sung Ki-hoon was born in 1974 as a laid-off worker for 16 years. He is the same age as Mr. Lee, a laid-off worker at Ssangyong Motor. It turns out that Ki-hoon went back and forth between a chicken house and a substitute driver after his dismissal. Mr. Lee recalled that Ki-hoon’s life was like that of his colleagues, saying that Ki-hoon’s appearance was like one of 2,646 Ssangyong employees fired.
“More than 30 laidoffs and their families took their lives and died,” he said.
Mr. Lee noted, “Even though Sung Ki-hoon uses shallow numbers, he does not give up his dignity as a human being.” He continued, “(Ki-hoon’s appearance) can be frustrating, but Sung Ki-hoon lives with that ‘paradoxical choice'” and emphasized, “Even if a professional or a copycat rolls their heads and uses tricks, it is useless.”
He said that he read the director’s thoughts when Ki-hoon said that we should choose people to live instead of money, and he said, “This is the director’s response to the ‘let’s live together’ that the workers who fired Ssangyong Motor cried out.”
Mr. Lee said, “There are many human figures in ‘Squid Game’, but the person who is the warmest and warmest as a human being and who does not put down human dignity at the threshold of death is expressed as a ‘fired worker’.” This interpretation is not overstated. He added that he thinks it is a point that can be considered sufficiently as a party.
Mr. Lee concluded the article by saying, “I feel like I received a lot of comfort, and I want to hear more of the director’s thoughts, and I want to say thank you.”
Regarding this, director Hwang Dong-hyeok of Squid Game said in an interview with the Hankyoreh, “It is right to use Ssangyong as a reference. Director Hwang said that he wanted to make Ki-hoon a figure representing workers in a crisis situation, and that it was something he could do as an artist.
On the other hand, Squid Game is running first in the ‘TV program (show)’ category in 76 out of 83 countries around the world as of the 27th.
Squid Game ranked first in the US market beyond Asia and became the most popular work in 76 regions (countries) around the world, including Europe, the Middle East, and South America.
YTN PLUS Gayoung Choi (weeping07@ytnplus.co.kr)
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