So in my experience that makes both seasons of squid games, parasite and the horror movie 'the host' (also another Korean movie but I can't recall the name of it)

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's called the national security act. You're not allowed to say anything pro-communist, and of course they've used that as a premise to crack down on less radical worker organizing too. The main character in Squid Game explicitly has a PTSD flashback to one such crack down, which is implied to be directly why his life sucks because he and others involved in that unionization movement all got blacklisted by South Korea's ruling corporations.