The Real Life "Squid Game" - Thousands Of Koreans Forced To Play Children's Games To NOT Be Killed

29:21They're technically games because a lot of them are childhood games, but other than that, it's not a game. A game would imply there's a winner and a loser. In squid games, sure, it could be argued that most games don't have a clear winner, but at the very end, the winner walks away with tens of millions of dollars. The game's stakes at Brothers Home is if you win, you get out with maybe just a few wounds from that game. If you lose, you could lose your life. The so-called games are just straight up punishments. The guards would ask everyone if they wanted to play games but like i said they're not games they'll stand and gather everybody in the bunk rooms and scream hiroshima every single person in that cramped warehouse like room is going to stand up climb to the top bunk and hang themselves upside down with their legs hooked over the side of the top bunk like you know how you go upside down on monkey bars yeah dangling head down now hold the pose the rules of the game are simple don't get up and don't fall and if you do you get beat and possibly die one survivor says kids who were new had the hardest time they would cry a lot and their faces would get swollen from the rush of blood others would collapse because they're fainting not even because they can't take the pressure in their ears anymore but if you fall from that position because you fainted it hurts a lot you land on your neck which side note a lot of people have become permanently disfigured permanently disabled and or just completely paralyzed at the brother's home.

30:50Yeah. The game is made even more twisted by the fact that when you're upside down, they'll go around randomly hitting people on the stomach with the wooden stick. And it's random. It's not even like you fell or you're groaning or anything. It could just be for no reason at all. They said the anticipation of that random hit to your stomach when you're upside down and staring at everything from that angle, it kills you, the anticipation. They say, quote, There's no way to express the terror of not knowing where the guards would hit when your vision was pointed downward like a handstand. Another sick game is called the kimbap roll.

31:23It's a rice roll or blanket rolling, which sounds like it would be the easier of the so-called punishment games, but it's not. Barely anyone walks out without a concussion. The guards will roll the blanket out, slam you down onto it and start rolling it across the floor. So now you're in this burrito of a blanket. If you don't crunch your core immediately and bring your hands to cover your head in time, you've lost the game. Because the second the blanket rolls, they start kicking you, beating you, stomping you. They say they kick you like they're kicking soccer balls at the World Cup, but it's just your head.

31:56One survivor says if you don't curl your body up as much as possible, your intestines could rupture. Or we've seen people with arms and legs that break in that game you could also end up with head injuries and cavalry cavalry is one of the worst games it's more of a battle than anything they get two blue tracksuit wearing people sometimes from the same platoon same room they're forced to fist fight each other until one of them is on the brink of death the game does not end until at least one child has a broken nose a few broken missing teeth and or a concussion it's like a horrific battlefield for no reason that would even remotely make sense.

32:33Other games include taking on stress poses. One is where you start with your feet on the ground. So imagine you're just standing on the ground. Then you bend at the waist and you keep bending and bending until your forehead touches the floor. So you're in this upside down V shape and the two points that are touching the ground are your forehead and your feet, which doesn't seem that bad, but just like red light, green light, if you move even just a little. If you even shake because you're getting tired, they will step on you. They'll step on your lower back, your butt area, putting pressure onto your skull that's already digging into the gravel.

33:08And you're in this position, this stress pose for an hour. It's not even five minutes. They say it's a very unique type of unescapable pain. Another variation consists of being on your knees on the gravel, like you're about to pray, and then lowering your forehead to touch the pebbly, gravelly floor and your hands are behind your back. If you move, the guards will come and stomp your head down onto the floor. But the hardest stress position, according to multiple survivors, so remember the first one with the upside down V? They said when they really want to torture you, you don't put your forehead on the ground.

33:41They shove your nose into the ground. It's called the red pepper powder because the minute they even press you a little bit, it's just blood everywhere and it goes into your nose. It goes everywhere. Then there's another one called motor vehicle and it's just you standing in front of a guard and they say motor vehicle and they'll shout left indicator, like turn on your left signal. But you don't really do anything because it's not really a game. They just whack your left eye with a wooden bat until it's swollen. Sometimes the games are less creative. They'll put wooden sticks, soak them in salt water and hit the back of people's calves or the soles of their feet.

34:22why they soak it in salt so once you hit somebody's skin with a wood stick you're gonna break the skin open and this is soaked in salt water so now it's just gonna be extra painful oh my god okay one survivor says how does it feel to get hit with it just once i mean your knees automatically buckle after that it becomes bearable because you lose all feeling at least in that moment. One survivor says once one of the guards hit me so hard, he broke my two front teeth. And you know what they said? Don't worry, they'll grow back out and then we'll pull them out all over again. And because he kept crying, cause he's a little kid, they grabbed a string and pulled out the rest of his remaining teeth one by one.

35:06And I guess these were his adult teeth or maybe it's the malnutrition or I don't know, but he does not have a single tooth to this day. He doesn't have any teeth. This was all part of the games in the compound called brother's home. Unlike squid games, there's no winning. There's no nothing. There's no grand cash prize at the end. There's only losing or losing your life. One survivor, Han, again, the one that authored the book that our researchers met up with, he said, there's one particular memory that haunts me. Someone in our group was having an epileptic seizure. The guard thought he was faking it and started beating him with a wooden bat.

35:41The boy regained consciousness and grabbed the guard's leg, begging him, please stop, please. I'm sorry. Begging for forgiveness. But the guard was upset. He continued beating him and bang, beat his head with the bat. And then one last quote, he kicked the boy's head like a soccer ball. The boy collapsed. His eyes rolled back into his head. And when they rolled back, they were unfocused and blood started oozing out of his skull. His body was dragged away and he was never seen again. That's what happens when you lose the game. One survivor says, I saw people being beaten to death. I saw someone frothing at the mouth.

36:16The fear that if I make a mistake, I could be beaten to death was intense. It was all consuming. And even if you survive the day, there is no guarantee that you survive the night. One survivor who was taken in when they were 10, by the way, they say at night, there were things, a lot of things that were happening that shouldn't even happened during war times. At night when we were all sleeping you could hear screams. Women screaming and being dragged away. Young boys being forcibly ripped from their bunk beds. The guards were essaying them at night. One victim states it was so painful I had to literally crawl back to my bunk.

36:50Another survivor, he was 15 when he was kidnapped, he says I was subjected to all forms of brutal abuse and was essayed daily. Every night I was essayed by the guards. This lasted for more than four years that's how i grew up i don't even know how i survived another victim choy the one that was accused of stealing the bread he said one night one of the guards stripped off all my clothes washed me in cold water ordered me to lie down in the bed and i was so scared that night the guard essayed me so bad i was bleeding everywhere it was excruciating he was essayed almost nightly for the next five years by the guards, multiple guards at a time.

37:31But that wasn't the worst part. He said the worst part was later, a few years in, he was in the cafeteria when he saw his brother. And he says, I saw him and I didn't know what to say. I just had tears streaming down my face. I could see him struggling to adapt to the brother's home and it hurt me so much that I could just only watch from afar. Was it younger or older? A little bit older, but still a child. the mental and physical damage that was inflicted on me was something i could never imagine by the time that he turned 19 he only weighed 80 pounds another survivor states she didn't really know exactly what happened to her because she was so young she says the guard ripped my clothes off then he tied my legs to the bed i didn't know what sex was yet so i didn't even know that i was being essayed only that it was like the most painful thing you hear the so-called guards say things like this one's pretty and then you'll just hear someone getting dragged away screaming han says one of the guards asked me to come over so i went to him he was naked and he asked me do you know how to jerk off i thought he was naked because it was hot and it was summer and we don't have ac i didn't understand anything because i was so young when i hesitated he angrily cursed at me hey you son of a bitch i asked you if you know how to jerk off you son of a fucking bitch like just a string of curse words.

38:50Han screamed thinking, I mean, if I don't respond or help him cool down, he's going to beat me. I'm confused. I don't know. I have no clue what this man is saying. He screams. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. The guard is just laying on the bed and he orders Han, then do it. Han writes, as soon as he said that, I ran back to the shoe rack. I grabbed the slipper with the guard's name on it and I clapped the slippers together. So the translation, the slang for jerk off especially in the dialect that han uses because he's from a smaller town the self-pleasure slang kind of sounds like the word that he uses for slippers so he was like trying to cool him off by clapping the slippers together he was just frantic he didn't know what to do and the guard thinks that han is mocking him so he grabs the slippers starts slapping him across the face repeatedly then forces him to lay face down spits on him and essays him han says the guard just kept screaming you're trying to mess with me huh and he starts violently beating him while violently essaying him he was probably 14 han says the pain was so severe i couldn't even breathe let alone speak i could hear what the guard was saying and see how he was hitting me but i couldn't defend myself at all and i could barely breathe properly the whole time it was happening i only had one thought that i would kill this bastard somehow no matter what i mean i had no choice though but to grit my teeth and endure this.

40:17Sometimes they would commit the essays while other kids are there, just frozen, eyes clenched because they don't want to be next. And in the massive compound, they have a psych ward, which sounds like they care about the people in there, enough about their mental health, but not really. I mean, you were taken into the psych ward if you could not be beaten into submission. You would be drugged 24-7 and still beaten and abused in the psych ward. Even in the psych ward, one survivor states she saw the guards every night they would drag patients away one patient at a time but it'd be like three guards on one patient the survivor was 10 she says if a woman vomits I just knew that they would take her to the basement the implication being she's pregnant and they force a termination but she didn't realize that when she was 10 and she says now that I think about it I feel so sorry for those people if I had known then I mean even if I knew I wouldn't have had the power but I could have at least tried protecting them, right?

41:14Saying not to do that to them. That's what my heart hurts the most now. One survivor says, I was a child with a home and parents and siblings. I just couldn't understand why I was there, why I was trapped in a place like this. Survivor Kang was left paralyzed from these games and stuck in that mental institution for years. After one particularly brutal beating by a bunch of the guards, He says they had me tied up and smashed my head onto the concrete when I woke up. Honestly, I was so shocked My left arm and leg wouldn't move At all And to this day they don't He was labeled as crazy thrown into the psych ward where he was forced to take every pill that they wanted to give him He says quote whenever I took those drugs for about 10 hours I was in a complete daze if I tried not to take it or try to spit it out one person would squeeze my nose shut and the other person would pop the pill in my mouth and just pour water down my throat they were forcing him to take the pills via waterboarding in a way he says i ended up becoming a real psychiatric patient they drove him crazy he says they treat humans like animals if you don't listen to the guards you're you're beat on the spot i mean if there was a hell this place was it brother's home is a place that doesn't even begin to make sense I mean, even their medical procedures don't make sense.

42:31If someone has a cut, an open cut, their solution, because they have a medical wing, a building, you go there and they rub salt on you. A disinfectant, they say. The survivor said the guards would just rub salt all over us, roughly, which made all the wounds so much worse. One of the worst incidents a survivor witnessed was one man, well, other than death, was one man got caught on a wire in the field and his stomach had split open. him. His intestines were pooling out. Do you know what they did? This is the survivor asking us. They brought the salt. They rubbed salt into his open stomach. The place feels like it exists merely to torture thousands of people in tandem, but how and why?

43:14I mean, even though everyone is starving, living in the worst conditions, it still costs something to run a place like this. So someone must be funding it or something. For what reason? Nothing makes sense. What the hell is this place? All the survivors say we felt like animals in the compound. We were not treated like human beings. We could not behave like human beings. We couldn't do anything. Thinking in there is a luxury. Everyone only has one thought. I don't want to get beat. I don't want to die. And then one day a guard walks in. Attention. Look over here. Everyone stands at attention. They're looking.

43:48If one of you eats this, there will be no punishment games today. everyone's squinting what even is that and they're looking and he's holding up this leathery looking substance it looks looks scary one survivor says snake skin who's snake skin you know it's interesting because we were so hungry we would eat centipedes you know uh pine cones and pine needles we would eat those too but apparently snake skin was too much for us so it feels like so many moments nobody says anything until a little boy steps forward and his voice is so calm team leader if i eat that will there really be no group game punishments today the guard nods and the little boy walks up grabs the snake skin and lets it slide down his throat and everybody thought well that makes sense if anybody in this platoon was gonna do it it was gonna be that kid that's why his nickname is cannibal he didn't earn that nickname for eating the snake skin he earned that nickname because when he was everybody was cleaning the bunk rooms the warehouses they have to clean it every day as well he saw this baby mouse sleeping the baby mouse was so young the eyes weren't even open yet and he immediately just snatched it and gulped it down he ate the mouse and everyone stared at him and he just responded it's good it's good for the body and they all looked away and the name cannibal just stuck i mean what can make a little kid so desperate that he would eat a mouse like that why don't they just let him go why even bring him here in the first place what is the purpose of any of this why are they running this place where are they getting these people

45:37in the very first episode of season one of squid games the main character ki-hun is approached by this very clean sharp looking man suit man he just seemingly at random approaches ki-hun this is the man who is bread stomping by the way they're sitting at the subway station hello sir can i have a moment of your time i don't believe in jesus please that's not it today i wanted to offer you a great opportunity kyun points a gun at him the suit man with no fear puts his hands up kyun pulls the trigger it's a lighter listen dude i come from a family of buddhists so don't piss me off and just please leave me alone sir would you like to play a game with me what are you a salesman god you guys have such unique tactics these days look i get it you're just trying to do your job i just hear whatever but i just don't have time and sit here and listen to all of this suit man opens up his briefcase to show a blue folded up paper a red folded up paper and stacks of cash sir have you played dacchi before it's a korean childhood game where you fold papers you smack it down on the other party's folded paper on the ground and you try to flip it.

46:46Every time the suit man loses, he will give Ki-hun, the main character,$100. For every time the main character loses, the suit man will slap him across the face. At the very end, Ki-hun, the main character, has traded in his dignity for a few hundred dollars, while the suit man seemingly knows everything about Ki-hun's life. You've been divorced for about three years. Your daughter is 10 years old, $110 ,000 owed to loan sharks, another$170 ,000 owed to the bank. Who the hell are you? The suit man hands him a business card, just a phone number on there. Call me. We don't have many slots left. That's how Ki-hun, the main character, gets into Squid Games.

47:26A man approaches him at the subway station. If you're out of toilet paper, the next best option is a wet wipe or paper towel or maybe be a scrap of fabric. Just good old plain water probably works the best. Near the end of alternatives of good for you toilet paper is newspaper. But did you know that if you rub two pieces of newspaper, like you're trying to create a fire force of static, the newspaper gets soft enough to wipe your butt. It is the type of information that you only know from firsthand experience of using newspaper to wipe your bottom, as well as the fact that sometimes the morning headlines will be imprinted onto your butt for the rest of the day.

48:06But back then in less populated areas of the world and in South Korea, this was what was generally used newspaper and 12 year old Jung. His dad was a luxury salesman of sorts because he sold toilet paper. And that's not an easy job because everybody's slamming the door in his face. Newspaper just works fine. Okay. You little sleaze. Stop trying to sell me your scam. It's not a fun job. Wiping hygiene is not that advanced yet. Everyone feels like he's out to scam them. And the only purpose Zhang's dad is doing any of this is because his 12-year-old son Zhang. Everyone in the neighborhood would tell Zhang and his dad, one day your son could be president.

48:46He was top of his class. He just had this charisma and humanity about him that all the neighbors said, if you were president, this country would be a way better place. That is until he vanishes. He is one of the serial child disappearances in the city of Busan in South Korea. It seems like every week another child is going missing. Sometimes they're five years old. Other times they're teenagers. Other times they're full-blown adults. People are just disappearing. A few things are certain with each disappearance. The commonalities include a child or person vanishes, typically at a subway station, Busan station most of the time, and two men approach them at the subway station and they're well-dressed.

49:27Kids, we need to talk to you about something. Could you come here for a moment? Or sometimes, you poor thing, you look lost, I could help you. Then they vanish. So the first thing uncovered about the two well-dressed people, you know how in Squid Games it's the man wearing the suit that asks if you want to play a game? Well, in this case, in the real-life version, the two men approaching and talking to the kids that vanish are police officers. But why would police officers be kidnapping kids to bring them to a torture facility? The bids open every four years, technically. every group sends in their proposal.

50:01If you let us be the ones to facilitate the games, we will spend billions of dollars, at least$10 billion. Some of us will even spend like$40 billion. One year, that number was like 45 calculated for inflation. Each group more or less competes to see who will have the honor of overseeing the games. Billions of dollars are spent to see people compete, to see who wins, who comes out on top while everybody else watches. welcome to the Olympic games, which, okay, side note, despite it being a financial hellscape for most host cities, there are still fighting bids to continue hosting. I mean, don't get me wrong.

50:36I love watching the Olympic games. I look forward to the Olympics. I think it is a very clear representation of the physical and mental abilities of far superior human beings and a constant reminder of how, when did I get after coming up two flights of stairs? I also really enjoy the fact that it's like the only time Americans come together, but it is almost a migraine and a half to host. The International Olympics Committee requires a minimum of 400 ,000 hotel rooms available for visiting spectators and an Olympic village that is able to house 15 ,000 athletes, referees, and officials. If you don't have internal, external transportation facilities to bus people there, to get them on the train to go there, you got to build those.

51:20Let alone, you have to build the actual facilities that the Olympic games will be hosted in. There is the argument that maybe it's because there's hard value. So hard value is direct profits from hosting the game. How much the games itself brings to that city and the tourism associated directly with the games. Then there's soft value or like the trickling effect of global sentiment. Maybe your city was not on the map, but now everybody knows your city's name because you hosted one of the Olympics. And now everybody knows that you guys have train stations, so they're going to go visit you more often.

51:49or like the Beijing Olympics, for example, it said that many residents, they had so many new train routes that were created that are still being heavily utilized today. But there are benefits, especially for actually US cities benefit a lot from the Olympics. So for example, 2028 Olympics will be hosted in LA. LA will likely financially be okay with hosting. I mean, I do see a lot of people in LA were still upset, but most of the major sporting arenas and the infrastructure is already in place. There are world-class stadiums and facilities all over LA. Their biggest expense will likely be fixing the public transit.

52:26And there's also another problem that they might have to deal with. The population of people that are unhoused in Los Angeles. Recently in 2024, Paris hosted the Olympics and there were news reports that Parisian officials were going around Paris and clearing out the encampments. They were busing out unhoused populations with little to no support. They were sending them 250 miles away to a neighboring town to make sure that all the foreign tourists did not see the unsightly people, which I mean, obviously that's not what the Parisian authorities have claimed. In fact, they deny doing that. They say, actually, we were offering people free housing, which technically they were.

53:03People were bused out of the city 250 miles away, given temporary housing. And the second that the Olympic games were over, the temporary housing disappeared. And now they're left wandering 250 miles away, confused. But this has been the trend during the Olympics. One expert says hosting the Olympic games is an inequality machine. Most cities find ways to quote dispose of their unhoused population. It's not just Paris, Atlanta, Moscow, LA in the eighties. They're all the same. One man without a home in LA was interviewed and said before the Olympics, it wasn't bad. Now they treat us like dirt.

53:38One LA police captain told a reporter as he was scattering unhoused people to less visible parts of town, we're trying to sanitize the area. A lot of cities are in it for economic growth, but maybe 40, 50 years ago, hosting the Olympics was more so for a symbol of pride. It's showing that your country is doing well. At least that's what it meant for South Korea. 1988, the Olympic Games will be hosted in Seoul, South Korea to show you how big of a deal this is. This is the first time Okay. That the Olympics are going to be hosted in South Korea since the country is founded. Foreigners are coming on a mass scale for the first time.

54:13It is the perfect opportunity for Korea to show the world what South Korea is. Now, side note, this is Korea in the eighties. It's not now, you know, back in the eighties, there were no cute aesthetic cafes and color theory appointments. South Korea was scoffed at by most countries. It's like a tiny little plot of land way far out in the East. How could they ever possibly dominate industries like tourism, some electronics, music, and slowly even movies and shows. This is before all of that. South Korea needs to make a statement. There's widespread propaganda that they got to put their best foot forward.

54:46So one way that describes how important this is, think of it like this. There's two families, sworn enemies. They take a blood oath. They hate each other. It seems like this feud is never going to end. And all they do every day is send each other shit balloons. and they absolutely without mercy will fight each other if they need to. Everyone in the whole area practically knows that these two families hate each other. In the beginning, family A has a massive chip on their shoulder because family B has always been richer than them. They just always have more resources. So family A works really hard to show the world, you know what?

55:22I don't care about family B. We're doing so much better than family B actually. Now we're going to have this once in a lifetime gathering where all of the people are going to come. some are our friends some are family b's friends some are people that are just watching in between and we have to show them that we're okay and that we're doing better than family b family a is south korea and family b is north korea so you're saying a lot of it is stemmed from you know north and south yeah and they need to have this grand old party host the olympics and i will say the way South Koreans unite during tough times is probably one of the more admirable things I've ever seen.

56:01I mean, I don't really see other countries coming together like that during times of grief. Recently with Jeju Airlines crash, but also with the impeachment of the president, the way citizens would order food for protesters. They don't even know. They would make orders at restaurants near protest sites. So they would post it online. You go in and you pick up free food. And then afterwards, the citizens that couldn't make it to the protest, they went out to clean up the debris because it's a bad look if you protest and you leave trash then the police might try to make you not protest so a lot of koreans really want to make this happen for south korea and i will say this could be a big rumor but at the time which this is no longer the case south korea is really safe well most parts south korea had a big pickpocketing problem back then really big and there's this rumor that all the pickpocketing was organized crime they're run by gangs back then there was a rumor that all the heads of the gang met up before the Olympics and agreed that they're not going to pickpocket any foreigners.

56:58And there was not a pickpocketing problem that Olympics, and it was really decreased that month. But one thing that citizens can't really help with is the environment beautification work. That's what it's called. Anything that doesn't look good for foreign guests, clean it all up, including the people. Clean up the unsightly humans. Just like what LA police captain said, they need to sanitize the streets. So who are these people? The government categorizes them as vagrants. That is an outdated term. It's actually pretty derogatory and might even be considered an official slur in a few years, but it is, I can't not use it in this specific legal setting.

57:33Not that this is a legal setting, but when it was used in a legal setting, if I replaced the word, it would lose the full meaning. It's not just semantics. Okay. So the word and definition for vagrant is it's how people are being pulled off the streets. So the government wants all quote unquote vagrants off the street. The definition for vagrants is a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place typically lives by begging. That's how they get their food and form of payment, which is already quite problematic to want a chunk of the human population hidden away so that you can host the Olympics.

58:07But now the government behind closed doors is asking, well, if we want to get rid of the vagrants and we want to arrest them and take them away, how do we do that? Like, how do you know if someone is a vagrant? I mean, the scale of coordination that would entail because to be that definition, a few things have to be true. You know, you have to be without a settled home. You have to be wandering from place to place and you have to live by begging. By definition, they can't just beg in one place. They cannot just not have a home. They have to do all of these things. They have to travel and beg. It's a combination, you know, but the government is like, how are we going to track that?

58:40We're just going to follow one person from town to town and then arrest them. That's not effective. well let's just change the definition the new qualifications of vagrant include drinking in public what if it's an outdoor patio of a restaurant it's technically public you know but you're allowed to drink what if it's like that or sometimes this isn't allowed but some people will drink in the alleyways with their friends after the convenience store no vagrant also if someone makes a scene at a bar drunk take them in vagrant matter of fact anyone who looks like they've gone several days without shaving their beard they look unkept vagrant do you see why the haircuts are important now oh my god they want to make them look more unkept yes wow the biggest one sleeping at subway or train stations or on the train on public transit okay um not to get all nitty-gritty about things but what about people who fall asleep while waiting for their train or taking a quick power nap while the train is moving towards their destination like they're commuting yeah vagrant who's making these rules the dictator at the time in fact if anyone watches tv at a train station or a bus terminal count them in as a vagrant what do you mean watching tv even for a second even if they just glance at the tv i mean the train stations themselves put the tv up on the train stations i don't get it vagrant if they had a home they would watch tv at home so if the police the police are given all these definitions and told to capture all the vagrants if they went around checking off even just one of these things make someone a vagrant glancing at a tv at a train station i mean they would have to arrest the whole train station by the new definitions but then you're gonna have a bunch of angry people you're gonna have that husband calling this person's wife calling this person's dad calling and screaming at you like how dare you arrest my loved one for no freaking reason at all this is not okay people will come with pitchforks to the police station so the police will end up taking in zero people so the government set up this incentive a reward system each police officer gets points for each person that they bring in as a vagrant.

1:00:44And now there's incentive to bring people in. But again, you can't just round everyone up in the crowd and bring them in because you want bonuses. Okay. They need to bring in people that won't cause trouble. They can't accidentally bring in the pastor's wife or the mayor's daughter or the successful businessman's son. They have to bring in people that won't be missed. Or even if they are missed, guess what? Their loved ones have no power. What are they going to do? Complain to the police about it we are the police so these are not disclosed to the public no the public they think vagrants are like the pickpocketers criminals like they've been told hey we're just going to clean up the streets of people who are harming you instead they're taking like every single person they're just taking a kid that doesn't have a financial background or a family that are wealthy like village kids small town kids i see people that don't fit those categories they think that the government is going to rehabilitate these people and provide help more or less the citizens because of ignorance they think it's okay and those people who don't think it's okay they have no power and the police are just bringing people in in squid game season two the suit man the recruiter says clearing and incinerating the bodies of countless people like you Mr.

1:02:01Song the main character these things aren't human they're just trash they have no purpose in this world but is it a cycle because by treating people as subhuman putting them in the brother's home in subhuman conditions how do you expect them to still act human afterwards and I'm not saying that as my social commentary Han the victim who wrote the book says I was once a human but I became an animal in the brother's home at the brother's home rather than learning to live like human beings you learn to cower around powerful people struggle to even get a little bit of soup and plot to escape being hit it's like living in a barbaric era like animals 12 year old jang the son of the toilet paper salesman that was kidnapped he would do this thing where he would use the restroom and for a brief moment before reaching the handle for the door he would close his eyes taken a breath and pray for a portal to open.

1:02:54When I open this bathroom door, it's not going to be brother's home. It's going to open into my home and my dad's going to be there and he's going to be cooking something and that's what's going to happen. And then he would open the door and nothing would be there. He's still in hell for the next two years until Zhang looks up one day and standing in the middle of the field. There he is. The man that he has been praying for years to come. The one that's going to save him. Get him out of this hell of a place. His dad. He's about to break out into this full-blown sprint and jump and hug his dad.

1:03:32Maybe even scream at him. Like, why did you take so long to find me? But it's like the wind gets knocked out of him instead. And he quickly pushes his head down and he acts like he doesn't see his dad. because just like him, just like Jung, his dad is standing there wearing a blue track suit. Inside the giant compound in the brother's home, in the very back, away from the stench of dead people, there's the director's office, the man who runs it, the man who makes money from the government by taking people in, the front man, if you will, the game maker. When you open the door to the office, you see, just like Squid Game, a giant vault.

1:04:08So in the show, the giant vault is this clear, see-through piggy bank that drops down from the ceiling, filling with tens of millions of dollars in cash. But at Brother's Home, it's a giant bank vault, like the ones used in banks. It's large. One day it gets torched and it's pried open by prosecutors who finally decide to investigate. They yank open the door and they find eight million dollars sitting there, mostly in foreign currency. Welcome to the largest social welfare facility in South Korea. where is all this money coming from because it's not just the government wait a million dollar back in the days a million calculated for inflation okay where is this money coming from because it's not just coming from the government who the hell is running this place this is part one of the real life squid games part two and three will cover the adoption scams taking place inside the compound yeah they have like an adoption ring where they if the baby is young enough that they took in they're like okay let's have a foreign person adopt this korean baby what happens to all the dead bodies what happens to when entire families family members are trapped in the same torture chamber together and sometimes pit against each other also the process for revenge and retribution that the victims decide to get when they come together that will all be covered in part two and three that is it for part one stay safe let me know your thoughts in the comments and and I will see you in the next one!