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The South Korean debt crisis that inspired Squid Game’s dark dystopia

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The Netflix hit is as fantastical as it is violent – but underpinning its macabre story of impoverished contestants risking their lives for money is a real crisis of personal debt in South Korea. Why has it resonated all over the world?

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