![]() These real life extreme anti-union laws in South Korea allow the debts to be laid on the heads of individual trade union reps and organisers, whereas here in Ireland anti-trade union laws are designed to bankrupt trade unions in order to destroy them if they break the laws. The imposition of tremendous individualized debts on trade unions and individuals in South Korea led to acts of the most extreme demoralization and desperation amongst the workers who stood with each other there. In the north, PBP MLA Gerry Carroll’s Trade Union Freedom Bill proposes the first repeals of Margaret Thatcher’s anti-trade union laws from the 1980s- laws that were repealed and replaced in England and Wales years ago, but not in the north. Any trade unionist in the south will tell you about the danger that the 1990 Industrial Relations Act poses for trade unions. ![]() Similarly in Ireland anti-trade union laws have been written and remain on the books. The article goes on to talk about how real anti-trade union laws in South Korea mean unions and individual workers have to pay damages to corporations. That struggle ended in violent defeat when hundreds of rampaging police charged into the factory and brutally beat down the striking workers.” “The casual (Squid Game) viewer is likely unaware that these trance visions portray a real-life event in Korean history-the 2009 SsangYong Motors strike. In one key episode the lead character, suitably a former trade unionist, is shocked by a punishment being given to losing players and goes into a trance, flashing back to the source of his own trouble a time when police violently broke his union’s strike. Critiques of capitalism aren’t absent anymore in entertainment see recent films like Lapsis (2020) and Sorry to Bother You (2018). People have noted that what makes it relatable is how it makes a dramatic graphic critique of how our society divides people and punishes them under capitalism. Though in Korean, the show is #1 in Ireland on Netflix. Losing means being subjected to horrific punishments as the viewers -the wealthiest- watch, cringe, and smile on, allowing the games continue pretending participation is a personal choice. ![]() Impoverished desperate people are made to play children’s games as entertainment. Squid Game has been a runaway hit on Netflix. The setting is a horrible Hunger Games-like television show in a class-divided near-future capitalist South Korea.
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