The Real Life "Squid Game" - Thousands Of Koreans Forced To Play Children's Games To NOT Be Killed

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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They’re all wearing the same blue tracksuit. Thousands of them standing out in the middle of the woods wearing the same thing. What is this place? They’re out in the middle of the woods - in what appears to be a small secretive city? A military base? How did they get 60+ buildings out here in the middle of the forest? And that giant wall… it’s 30 feet tall. Tall enough to keep people out. Or keep them in. The guards are watching each of the track suit wearing people with precision. One wrong move and you get beat. That’s when they hear it… The man starts running up onto the roof of one of the buildings - and there he goes. He flies off the top and lands in front of everyone. On his head. Someone standing right there says - “honestly, I didn’t know the sound of someone’s head exploding could make such a loud splitting sound. I saw his skull explode open.” A guard member walks out and sweeps up his brains and bones as if nothing happened. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? It kind of sounds like the plot of one of the most famous series on Netflix, Squid Game. But it’s not. This is the real life case of the Brother’s Home in South Korea. The true story behind Squid Game. Full source note: rottenmangopodcast.com

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0:00.0	The locks come off these big heavy doors. Interestingly enough, the locks are on the outside.
0:09.5	Hundreds of these doors, they open in unison. They open at the same time. And thousands, a thousand,
0:16.2	two thousand, it feels more like four thousand people. They walk out of these different doors that have now just been unlocked.
0:24.0	They're walking out into the sun, and a lot of them are squinting because they've been inside all night long.
0:30.0	They've been trapped, essentially padlocked from the outside.
0:34.1	And now they're walking into what feels like a massive atrium. They're staring up at the
0:40.1	sky. They're doing circles. They're doing like a 360 turn. And all you see around you are these
0:46.2	buildings, buildings. And then beyond those buildings, woods. It's so strange. It feels like its own
0:53.6	secret country in the middle of the woods. There's so strange. It feels like its own secret country in the middle of the woods.
0:56.7	There's 60 something buildings. They're all this brutalist style cement blocks. Very unwelcoming.
1:04.6	The scale of this place is massive. How do you even build infrastructure like this in the middle of
1:10.1	the woods?
1:12.2	It's dense woods.
1:17.4	Dozens of dozens of buildings just circling the center field where they're all standing.
1:19.3	And there's also these walls.
1:22.4	There are some walls that are built to keep people out.
1:25.2	And there are some walls built to keep people in.
1:26.8	This is one of those walls.
1:30.2	Because how do you climb 30 feet up with no grip, no help? Beyond that, beyond the wall, centering this field, there's a fence, just as tall,
1:37.5	potentially taller. And even if you get beyond that, what do you do? You don't even know where you are.
1:43.1	You're in the middle of nowhere.
1:48.9	Which way do you run? What if you run deeper into the woods? Or you run straight off a cliff,
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