イカゲーム・・・たんなるパクリじゃなさそう。

 

South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, especially among the elderly. Unemployment for young people in 2020 stood at a staggering 22 percent. Household debt, at over 1,800 trillion won ($1.5 trillion), now exceeds the country's annual economic output. South Korean workers have their own unique history, one that includes dictatorship, war, government repression (the Gwangju massacre among the most prominent).

In one episode it is revealed that the main character, Gi-hun, ran into financial troubles after he was laid off from Motor warehouse. In a flashback, the audience sees strikebreakers busting down doors and brutally assaulting striking workers, killing at least one. Dong-hyuk has said that the character was inspired by the 2009 Ssangyong Motors plant strike.

He goes on: “The setup is a commentary on the rigid class stratification of South Korea, and a pretty obvious allegory: Losers in the rigged game of the Korean economy, the players have a chance to win in the (supposedly) more merit-based, egalitarian arena of the squid game, but at the risk of almost certain death.”

The mother of the main character is forced at one point to go into the hospital, knowing full well for some time that she is likely dying. She leaves the hospital against the direction of the doctors because she knows she cannot afford the bills associated with treatment.

　なるほどねえ。

　高い自殺率、若者の高い失業率 、膨大な家計負債、政府、企業による国民の弾圧、抑圧、手薄い健康保険・・・・韓国のこうした残酷で悲惨な状況を反映しているわけだねええ。

　で、韓国ほどではないにせよ、そうしたことは資本主義社会ではどこでも起きているからそれに共感してイカゲームの視聴率が世界的に伸びているのかあ。

　パクリ元である日本の「神さまの言うとおり」にはそうした悲惨な状況の反映に欠けるんだろうなああ。予告みてみると、日本の方のは背景が「退屈」だもんなあ。韓国のは「不平等、差別」

両国の状況の違いなのかなああ。

イカゲームにはたんなるパクリ以上のものがあるなああ。