1. equal opportunity does not mean equality
People commonly mistake the front man is offering and equal opportunity in chance to be shackled in debt. Because in the real world they have been discriminated by race, gender, age, etc.
It is not about making it equality for players.
2. organ harvesting is not legal. The paper the loan sharks were forcing Gi-hun was signing was a directed organ donation. He was “voluntary and truly altruistic” donating his organs to a person that loan sharks sold it to illegaly.
3.In ep 2, some people didnt know what sangwoo was doing in his apartment in suit bathtub.
He was commiting suicide by carbon monxide by burning carcoal on stovetop and drinking alot alcohol similar to connecting hose in cars emission pipe to car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_South_Korea
In recent years amid South Korea's suicide epidemic, yeontan burning has been used as a method of suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Also, worth noting South Korea is one of highest:
Suicide in South Korea is the 10th highest in the world according to the World Health Organization, as well as the highest suicide rate in the OECD.[1][2][3] In 2012, suicide was the fourth-highest cause of death among South Koreans.[4]
3. eps immigrant work system/ terrible living conditions/ slavery
a. you can just watch the conditions they are living in by bbc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdcJaLd62TY
b. south korea using disable people as slaves investigative report = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNb-twWyEz8&t=892s
c. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-southkorea-workers/exclusive-hundreds-of-thai-workers-found-dying-in-south-korea-with-numbers-rising-idUSKBN28W033
"More Thais died in South Korea than any other foreign country between 2015 and 2018, according to data obtained via a separate FOI request to Thailand’s foreign ministry." They are worked to death.
d. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20201021000830 - south korea employment permit system
Launched in 2004, the employment permit system has been a major platform to bring in foreign workers from 16 countries to meet labor shortages at small and medium-sized firms here in the manufacturing,
agricultural and fishing sectors. Those low-skilled jobs are often shunned by Korean workers for their poor working conditions and low pay. Currently, there are about 248,000 migrant workers here under the EPS.
Jeong Jina, a lawyer at Law Office Be Life, says the EPS infringes on workers’ basic rights.
“The EPS is designed for a migrant worker to work up to nine years and eight months for one employer.
A migrant worker signs an employment contract before they enter the country and before they even meet their employer based on limited information on the contract,” she pointed out.
The system is set up only for the government’s convenience -- to manage migrants and to meet the demands of employers, she said.
“It does not reflect the human rights of migrant workers,” said Jeong, who is representing five migrant workers who filed a petition with the Constitutional Court in March. In the appeal, the workers argue that the EPS clause restricting migrant workers from changing their workplaces violates basic rights guaranteed by the country’s Constitution and amounts to forced labor.
some of worker experience
In July, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea conducted an inspection into the working conditions of 63 migrant fishing crew members on islands off the west coast and found they clocked 12 hours a day on average with less than an hour for breaks. Some 90 percent of the workers said they’d had no official days off for a year. There were six cases where migrant workers had their passports confiscated and 23 where their bankbooks were taken away.
Shiva Tharu, a 40-year-old man from Nepal, also asked his employer to end his employment contract and allow him to transfer to another workplace last year after struggling under a heavy workload.
“My boss said he would allow it only if I paid him,” said Tharu. He gave his boss 500,000 won and was finally set free from the contract with a clothing factory. He now works at a metal factory.
4. gihun trauma flashback police night raid. the reference was towards ssangyong motor strike
a. video summarzing events and corruption https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iln2B32-HB8
b. interview of union member confirming events -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4jkJGFRE8I
c. Lee Myung-bak former president of south korea from 2008- 2013 and sent riot police geared with military grade weapons to brutalize the workers and to be made of example of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Myung-bak
On 22 March 2018, Lee was arrested on charges of bribery, embezzlement, and tax evasion alleged to have occurred during his presidency. Prosecutors accused Lee of receiving bribes totaling 11 billion won and channeling assets of 35 billion won to an illicit slush fund.
5. "Let’s have a drink of Maldives at mojito" said by Kang Sae-byeok. This was line from Inside Men, a south korean political film thriller. Lee Byung-hun said the line, which became a meme. He was a political henchman in the film, indicating he is frontman.
6. ruling elite/triangles how can they be so cruel, ignorant, and evil. They are too cartoony. Here is just some examples.
a.members of congress vs Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary debate on definition of cage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9seRmtd-S4Y
b.tom perkins is a venture capitalist and net worth 8 billion dollars.
On wallstreet journal he compared the criticisms of wealthy americans to the holocaust
https://youtu.be/PN-vUaawaF8?t=44
c. Hilary clinton- superpredators = black children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uCrA7ePno
d. The energy corporation Enron shut down at least one power plant on false pretences, deliberately aggravating California's crippling 2001 blackouts with the aim of raising prices. The enron traders laughing about profitting on elderly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOLNWF5QMxY
e. NYPD sergeants union head threatens and doxxes mayor’s daughter on Twitter, has account frozen temporarily
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-sergeants-union-tweet-doxxed-mayors-daughter-20200601-kmw66sembjerrcjhdodjc3vswu-story.html
g. insert anything trump says and all people who profit from covid
7. prisons
