Rising “Squid Game” Stars HoYeon Jung and Wi Ha Joon
Get to know “Squid Game” stars Jung Ho Yeon (who played North Korean defector Sae Byeok) and Wi Ha Joon (who portrayed the police officer Jun Ho).
Month: October 2021
Go Away With … Joanne Lee Molinaro (the Korean Vegan)
Trial attorney by day and content creator by night, Joanne Lee Molinaro is known to her millions of social media followers as the Korean Vegan. In her social media posts, she delivers beautifully crafted videos showing her cook, while she shares personal stories about her life and that of her parents, who had escaped North Korea as children before immigrating to the United States as adults.
“Squid Game” Is a Social Allegory Informed by Korean History
“Squid Game” is not this year’s “Parasite,” so much as it is a satire in the vein of “A Modest Proposal.” Just as Jonathan Swift pointed out the abject brutality of telling the poor to satiate their hunger by eating healthy, plump babies, Hwang depicts the cruelty of lording a huge sum of money – literally – over desperate people’s heads, knowing that most will die as they lived: penniless.