Squid Game explained 1 (Red Light Green Light, Hidden Game 1)

Squid Game explained 1 (Hidden Games) 

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Squid game

The genre is a survival that reminds us of "Alice in Borderland," "As the God will," and "Battle Royale." The squid game featured games that I used to play in Korea as survival games. This is my sight of views of all the games in the squid game with following the plot. This series consists of a total of nine games, six games and three hidden games.

First game - Red Light, Green Light (무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다)

This game is like the Western game "Red Light, Green Light." The person who is "it" stands a fair distance away and turns around and says the phrase "Mugunghwa has bloomed" in Korean.  During this time, everyone else behind the starting line will get to the finish line ASAP. In the beginning of the squid game race, among them, 256 people were eliminated the most in this game. This game's purpose is to make the participants into 'horse of the game board' not human beings. Why did the writer turn Mugunghwa game into the first game? I had a question about that. Simply to cause a lot of dropouts? My answer to this is 'Adaptation'. Adaptation to a rapidly changing society with a sense, only such people can survive and move on next.

 First Hidden Game - Majority rule voting

Participants who survived after the first game will not head to the second game, but will play a hidden game that is simple but very important. It's a majority rule. 

"If a majority of the participants agree, the game will be suspended."

In fact, when participants find out that they will die if they are eliminated from the game and ask them to stop the game by voting, the host says it will be decided by a majority rule. Do you wonder why this is a game? If you follow this process, you will think it's strange. Before voting, the hosts show the participants the prize money(20 million dollar). Can we vote honestly for this money? Common sense is that if this terrible thing happened, of course we would all vote for stopping the game, but nearly half of the 100 people wanted to continue the game. 

In conclusion, the game was suspended, but the situation would have changed if even one vote had been cast. The majority vote is the representative way to reach an agreement, but just because most people choose does not always show the right result. Ironically, this majority rule concludes that what the participants felt in the first game while returning to reality and that reality overlaps with a game-like world, eventually returning to the squid game. Since then, when they realize that the game has become scary, some people want to stop the game through voting, but they can't even vote by participants who implicitly oppose it. The front man, who runs the squid game in charge, would have thought it was being planned while looking at this situation. Earlier, the error in the majority voting method was explained, but there are two reasons why humans stick to this method for a long time. The first was because we couldn't find a better way than this, and the second was because we historically voted for the majority rule, so attempts to resolve it with violence have disappeared to some extent. However, through the majority rule, a hidden game, people have distrust in the majority rule.

"Voting does not solve reality. It doesn't change anything." 

So even the idea of the "Agreement" we have been doing has been thoroughly trampled by the organizers of the "squid game."

"Is majority rule always right?"

It may or may not be. However, the attitude to agree on something was a safeguard to keep us from falling into a worse way. But now that the safety device is released, the game is heading to the second stage.