Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk claims that the story of Gi-hun being laid off was inspired by the 2009 Ssangyong Motor strikes in South Korea, as well as his own financial struggles.
It wasn't long after the first series of Squid Game aired that we started to see its unsubtle anti-capitalist message twisted by the very types of people it attempted to skewer, and just as quickly ...