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‘Squid Game’ creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said he still believes in a humanity that moves people to put confidence to help each other even under the life-and-death pressure of social survival games, reports Yonhap News Agency.
“We are living in a society where people dare to tread on other people to survive,” he said in a pre-taped interview by the Seoul-based Corea Image Communication Institute. “But I still believe that this society doesn’t have to be one where we need to kill others and override them to go up.”
He cited a quote by Sae-byeok (the character played by Jung Ho-yeon) in the eighth episode: “Don’t do it. That isn’t you. You’re a good person at heart.” The words interrupt Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), who tries to stab his old friend and final competitor Sang-woo while he is sleeping, ahead of the final round of the deadly contest of heavily debt-ridden people to win the equivalent of $38.2 million in prize money.
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