Hwang Dong-Hyuk has never officially confirmed that Brothers Home was inspired, but this rumor began to live his own life in social media. Posts with abandoned buildings, where you can still find residues from bloody gameplay, become virals, although they are far from the truth. At the Busan center, no one played for money and death, but his story was almost equally dark.
Creating “Squid Game” Hwang Dong-Hyuk actually reached for one card from the history of South Korea-a strike of employees of the Ssangyong Motors car group. In 2009, 2.5 thousand The company's employees were suddenly dismissed from work, and their 77 -day protest was brutally suppressed by the police with tear gas. This was the inspiration to create the history of Seong Gi-Huna, also known as 456.
And what about Brothers Home, which is now loud on Instagram or Tiktoku? The history of this center dates back to the 1960s, when a “miracle on the Han River” took place in South Korea, i.e. dynamic economic development. Although “a miracle” changed the country for the better, for many citizens it meant a huge trauma and loss of freedom. It was then that the military junta ruling the country decided to “clean” the city, opening help centers for homeless people and orphans, which were actually internment camps.
The authorities cleared the cities of unwanted people. This is what the “miracle” looked like
Centers such as Brothers Home in the city of Busan were to be sent “tramps” who “disturbed healthy social order”. At the same time, the law allowed an extremely broad interpretation of this term.
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According to CNN World, throughout the entire period of Brothers Home, only 10 percent Of all the prisoners, there was a real crisis of homelessness. The rest were, among others Drunks, pucabuci and sellers of gums, people with intellectual disabilities, students protesting against the military junta, and even children who were kidnapped from the street by the police without the knowledge of carers.
Brothers Home Center in Busan
The brutal plot of “Squid Game” and the truth “Korean Auschwitz”
Most “tramps” were placed in centers in the mid-1980s, during the rule of General Chun Do-Hvan. The authorities wanted the Asian games in 1986 or the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, foreign guests saw in South Korea a country free from poverty and homelessness.
Brothers Home in Busan, also called by the local media “Korean Auschwitz”, was the largest of 36 centers throughout the country. Originally 500 people could live there, but at the peak period of prisoners there were even 3.6 thousand. Officially, the stay should not exceed a year, but in fact many people even spent several years there.
The commandant punished “tramps” with torture. He died after many years in the wild
The prisoners of the Busan center were harnessed to slave work and fell victim to violence. Women and children were victims of sexual assault, infants were sold abroad for adoption, and the bodies of the dead went to universities as a material material. Similarly to “Squid Game”, “Trample” lost their identity in favor of numbers.
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The managing center commandant Park In-Kuan divided them into platoons. Everyone had a designated leader and competed with others in performing works in the field, workshops or in sewing. Torture was a punishment for losers – beating or electric shock.
The world learned about the nightmare of “tramps” only in 1987 after waves of pro -democratic protests. Several prisoners managed to escape and reveal the scale of abuse that has been used in Brothers Home for years. In 1988, the center in Busan ended his activity. In the “Squid Game” universe, the same year is given as the beginning of bloody games.
After the collapse of the military junta, Park In-Geun was brought to court, but he was not responsible for violating human rights, but for embezzlement and fraud. He received a sentence of two and a half years in prison, after which he emigrated to Australia, where he died in 2016. His family still lives abroad and the case did not get full settlement.
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According to official data, in the years 1975-1987 around 40,000 passed through Brothers Home. people. According to CNN World, the first report showed that within 12 years of the center's operation there were 513 deaths, but according to subsequent research the number of victims was greater. It is currently estimated that 657 people lost their lives in Busan. In contrast, however, what may suggest posts on Tiktoku, none of them died, taking part in the bloody games tailored to “Squid Game”.
