South Korea "Erased" 4,000 People To Host The Olympic Games

[Music]. Bing badao it is one of the biggest. churches in the city of puan in South. Korea only nobody really knows it exists. it's in the middle of the woods you have. to be invited in to join the church but. it's also not a cult this is not a cult. Story the church has the capacity to. seat. 3,500 people give or take sometimes it's. 4,000 there are just what feels like an. endless row upon row upon row of rock.

hard church pews every church member is. forced to sit on for hours every single. Sunday the pews the chairs they're at a. firm 90° angle and because attendance is. so high you're arm to arm in the summer. it feels like you and the person next to. you are going to fuse together in the. flesh because the sweat the moistness. just touching each other for hours at a. time winter is not as bad but every. single Sunday the inevitable moment. comes like every Sunday the red sack.

people the pastor Pastor limb at the. podium will ask the red sack members to. come up it looks like a row of red. floating balls that just float onto the. stage but they're people they're wearing. red burlap sacks with ugly paint on the. front and the Ugly paint reads I am a. sinner who has gone against God's word. everyone in the church holds their. breath as the pastor approaches the red. sack people his eyes look soft off they.

look sympathetic he puts his hands on. their heads and they bow down the pastor. closes his eyes in the name of Jesus. you're being punished then he moves to. the next one in the name of Jesus you. are being punished and then the next one. by one he does this to all of them in. the name of Jesus you're being punished. in the name of Jesus you're being. punished and then he turns around the. pastor does and when he turns back to. face the row of red sack wearing people. he has put on a pair of boxing gloves. and Bam he just starts pummeling them.

one by one to the ground none of the. thousands of people in this church look. away they're not allowed to their eyes. are glued to the front none of them stop. the pastor none of them scream none of. them shout none of them do anything. until these red sacks at the front are. laying down horizontal on the ground and. now they're oozing red liquid they're. dead he punched them to death a lot of. them get beaten to death the church. members think well they're lucky if. they're dead you know if they're dead.

their bodies will be dragged off. probably to be sold if not they're going. to repeat this again next week this is. not a cult this is the brother's home a. government funded Camp to cleanse the. humans of South Korea for the Olympics. [Music].

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essay trafficking and torture please. take a break if it gets to be too much. this case is on the heavier side but I. also think it's very important another. thing to note is that this is something. that happens all across the world like I. said in the previous episode and South. Korea at the time that this took place. was not a democracy it was run by a. dictator so hopefully massive changes. have been made and additionally our. amazing Korean researchers and. translators were actually able to travel. to some of the survivors involved in. today's case conduct in-person. interviews they translated the.

survivor's book the surviving child. written by Han jangan he's a huge part. of the case I'm going to refer to him as. H additionally this is a three-part case. if you haven't watched part one please. go watch that first I'm going to link it. because none of this is going to make. sense in part one we go through the. torture games that were held at the. brothers home welfare center how they. compare to squid games and in this. episode we're going to go through what. they do to the dead bodies as well as. the salt water food torture and what. happened when you escape in part three.

we will go in depth on the wealthy. benefactors of this facility so with. that being said let's get started in. season 2 of Netflix's squid games the. main character kiun he just survived. squid games in season 1 he walks away. with 40 something million dollars but he. more or less I mean was it worth it I. don't really know he more or less had to. kill his childhood friend that dies in. the games to win and the minute he comes. home he finds out that his mom is dead.

as well so for a year Kian he can't even. touch the money that he won the idea. that he would have to use this Blood. Money it just reminds him of every. single person all 400 something people. that died in the squid games it doesn't. even make sense couldn't he win all of. this money without them dying it's not. like they died so that he could get the. money the money was already there it. doesn't logically it doesn't connect a. year after his initial win he finds out. the truth the games are created for rich. people's entertainment and this lights a.

fire Underneath Him the logical thing. for him to do is find closure walk away. but instead kiun vows he is going to get. revenge on the rich VIPs and he's not. going to stop he is going to end these. stupid games even if it means losing. every single penny that he had just won. and even losing his own life the. National Assembly Building in South. Korea is this massive Stone structure. but the legislators they show up so do. the administrative staff Personnel.

researchers they show up to work and. outside is usually a row of people. protesters but this time is different. cuz a lot of people will protest. different things at the National. Assembly but this group they've been. very serious they've been here living. here for 3 years living outside the. National Assembly intense sometimes they. walk sometimes they just hold a sign. with tears streaming down their face. sometimes they fast and people have to. beg them to eat because they're becoming. emaciated this time they're sitting next. to each other one by one.

and they're all looking stoic they're. not saying anything their eyes look like. they're about to start crying some of. them are already crying there's just. tears dropping everywhere and they're. all shaving their heads to get attention. how many people in that group it's like. a row of 10. almost these are the victims of the. brother's home they have been protesting. for three something plus years I mean. it's a long time and it all started with. one man the man who wrote the book look.

Han he tells the legislators I am a. child who survived hell you know it's. easy to go from Human to beast but very. hard to return from Beast to human which. is why after he escaped brother's home. he wanted to kill people he admits he. thought becoming a serial killer was the. only way that he could Escape brother's. home he says like a psychopath after I. left I just wanted to kill everyone. around me I felt like it was the only. way to get everyone to listen to my. story but then I thought what about what. about everybody else everybody already.

hates us we were labeled as vagrants. people saw us as less than human even. after we got out of brother's home why. give them more reason to look down on us. so he said I'll give it one shot I will. go to the National Assembly and I will. protest and see what happens escaping. the brother's home compound is nearly. impossible in part one we talked about. how the walls are 30 ft tall I mean even. if you somehow manag to Spider-Man climb. the structure they put and certain parts. of the wall glass shards on top one.

attempted Escape be Lee he says he made. it up the wall he climbed it and when he. reached the top he had cut up his hands. and legs so badly he was caught he says. I was Dripping in blood I couldn't walk. so I was dragged across the concrete. leaving these blood stains sent back to. the office I was beaten by the guards. everybody took turns hitting me I was. beat probably 100 times in that moment. then he was taken to the church to. repent for his sins he had to put on. that R sack and from there the pastor.

would Pummel him in front of everyone to. show everybody this is exactly what. happens when you try to escape from. brother's home the pastor is that the. same guy as the head dude in charge or. it's a no different guy but he's another. top yes person mhm they're a family in. the end of part one 12-year-old Jung do. you remember him his dad is the toilet. paper salesman he's trapped in brother's. home for 2 years and the only thing. keeping him alive is the thought that.

his dad is going to come and save him. years later his dad shows up at. Brother's home but instead of being. there to take him out rescue him Jung's. dad is standing there wearing a blue. tracksuit it's very interesting because. squid game even the actual show has a. lot of interesting components like the. fact that there's so many familial. Dynamics at play in season 2 I would say. these are not really spoilers because. season 2 is connected to season 3 so we. don't really know what happens even but. if you're adverse to any type of spoiler.

please be warned so for example in the. new round of squid games there's a. mother and son Duo the two of them they. meet in the games neither knew that the. other party was going to show up they. have no idea they get there they enter. the games and both of them are there to. win the money so that they could pay off. the son's gambling debt without giving. any spoilers I mean how is that going to. play out we don't know cuz like I said. season three is coming if it's just like. the first games there's only one. standing it can't be both the mother and. the sun if there's an unspoken familial.

bond that would indicate then it has to. be the sun right because he's younger. and mothers likely have that innate. desire to protect their own children or. I wonder if it's a question of are. humans just humans at the end of the day. like when it really comes down to it. survival instincts kick in regardless of. who birthed you and it's about surviving. in the end for example the recruiter. remember the guy in the suit that works. for the games his whole job is to go. around approach people at Subway Station. he knows they have debt he's the one.

that Scouts the potential candidates for. the game invites them in he thinks all. these recruits are beneath humans he. thinks they're subhumans he believes. genuinely that he is doing the world a. favor by getting rid of them he used to. be a pink suit wearing guard inside of. squid games and he tells the main. character in season 2 clearing and. incinerating the bodies of countless. people like you these things aren't. human they're just trashed they have no. purpose in this world that's what I kept. telling myself for years and I worked. hard and one day the game makers they.

gave me a gun I like the way it felt it. was like somebody had finally. acknowledge my existence one year there. was a man who lost and I went over to. shoot him but I I recognized his face. can you guess who it was his friend my. dad oh and he still shot him he killed. his own dad why that's what happens in. the games killer be killed and also I. guess maybe he thinks these humans are.

so subhuman and he has resentment. towards his dad 12-year-old Jong in. brother's home is standing in the middle. of the field and he's staring at his dad. wearing that blue track suit Jung's dad. actually looks worse than Jung he's lost. so much weight it's like someone just. draped a blue tracksuit on top of a thin. wire hanger he can't even fit the. smallest size Jung says he looked. terrible just Skin and Bones it's a. complicated feeling. are you happy to see the person that you.

have been praying to see for years or do. you feel sad and miserable and depressed. that they're going to share the same. fate as you and that nobody can save. either of you Jung says it's even more. complicated because you have this weird. shame component he says I didn't even. want to meet my dad's eyes in there. because I thought wouldn't my father be. ashamed to see me right now it just was. such a strange feeling a few days pass. since Jung first sees his dad anytime. all the prisoners are gathered in the. courtyard he keeps his head down so his. dad doesn't see him and then one day he.

hears a familiar voice Jung are you. eating. well it's his dad his dad is looking. around nervously and he's just glancing. from side to side and finally he reaches. into his pocket and pushes a package. into Jung's hands it's a it's a rice. cake it's a Harden rice cake during the. holidays each prisoner receives one rice. cake it's just a small square of rice. cake he had been carrying the rice cake. for days not knowing when he would run. into his son he starved so that his son. could get an extra bite Jung breaks down.

when he's telling interviewers about. this moment later on because he said I. was 14 at the time I was so hungry I ate. the rice cake I ate it all as soon as I. got it but afterwards I just thought I'm. so immature I mean thinking about it now. how my father must have felt when he saw. me when he met me from his perspective. what he did to give me that rice cake. seeing me there I mean I think I was. just too immature turns out after Jung. disappeared Jung dad spent a year.

searching for him going everywhere going. to all the train stations trying to. figure out where the hell is my. 12-year-old son he would never run away. like the police are claiming so. something's not right here also the. police they're not telling him that his. son has been taken into the brother's. home uhhuh they're just saying oh I. don't know maybe he ran away who cares. about your son I mean police oh the one. that took him in yeah yeah they're the. one that kidnapped they don't even tell. him because they get bonus points from. the government this is just going to. cause more trouble so they don't like it. they don't want to tell C so somebody.

they kidnpped the kids and then the. parents come in saying oh my kids is. missing and they're saying okay we don't. know what happened meanwhile they're the. one that took them yes wow Jung's dad. spends a year searching for him no help. no Hope from the police or neighbors so. he resorts to trying to drown out his. sorrows and alcohol one day Jung senior. gets so upset that he's drinking I mean. sure he's not the mayor of puan but he's. thinking my son was a straight A student. he meant something to the world he could. been someone he meant something to me.

isn't that all that matters but the. police who are they you know who they're. here to serve the people and they're. treating him like dog poops stuck on. their shoe he walks over to the police. station not to start a fight or to be. violent just a protest a oneman protest. just help me find my son where is my son. you must help me the police take one. look at him and they smell the alcohol. in his breath and they think what a. vagrant take him in wow he walked into a.

police station. yeah wow that wow Jung was in there. since he was 12 till he was nearly 15 he. says I strongly resisted the essays at. the time that were happening every. single night to others but because of. that I was beaten even more it's a. different humiliation that's different. from just being beat even now the shock. is too much I just knew I had to escape. that hell he's out in the courtyard one. day and his eyes are glazed over just.

trying not to get burnt by the sun which. is really hard okay so they're saying in. the Summers even in the winters it's. really difficult because if you listen. to part one they're only allowed to wash. their face with coarse salt grains it. rips your flesh it makes it raw in the. Sun and then you're getting punched in. the face by these guards every day and. now you have no moisturizer nothing. you're just in the glare of the sun he's. squinting and he looks up and his heart. starts pounding he notices all the. guards are busy and there's been this. one building he's always looked at.

because if you were to get to the roof. of that building it's tall enough that. you could potentially jump onto the. ledge of the wall That's blocking them. like the 30 ft wall yes if you climb to. the top of that building the gap between. the wall and that building are not that. much and it's about the same height the. roof and the upper ledge of the wall mhm. so he takes the chance he says I ran. like lightning to the building's roof he. jumped Js from the roof knowing that he.

could very well land on the floor and. die or Worse survive only to be beaten. to death okay but he jumps lands on the. ledge of the wall scrapes himself from. all the blood he drops down from the. wall on the other side it's not nearly. as high because it's built on a hill he. jumps down and just starts booking it. there's no looking back he's sprinting. through the woods scraping his face he. can't even keep his eyes fully open. because the branches are slamming into. him and he doesn't want to slow down m. he's just running the next thing he.

knows there's this massive barbed wire. fence in front of him what the hell is. this some sort of secondary blockade he. doesn't even know how long he's been. running he just starts without even. thinking climbing of the barbed wired. fence breaking the skin all over his. hands Face Body it's like going through. a paper shredder but he said he didn't. even feel pain in the moment the only. thought being I have to escape this hell. no matter what there is no other way I. have to escape this hell he drops down. on the other side he made it this it's. Freedom he made it past the walls and.

then click it's the sound of a gun right. behind him put your hands up and don't. move he raises his bloody hands in the. air and turns around it's a uniformed. man holding a gun up to him he's not. wearing a blue track suit he's wearing a. military. outfit a soldier Jung had been so. desperate honestly nobody knows how long. he ran for he doesn't even remember buty. ran for so long he ran directly into a. military base sneaking into a military. base to him still can't be worse than.

being stuck at Brother's home right I. mean that's what he thinks he begs them. to save him because all the other people. that make it past the walls if you're. wearing the blue tracksuit you're just. brought immediately back in you're seen. almost like an escaped prisoner mhm and. he begs the soldiers to save him or. better yet don't save me don't don't do. anything just let me go I won't tell. anyone the soldiers load him up to a car. and he's just begging please sir help me. please sir help me the door to the. Soldier's car opens they throw him out.

and then they throw something into his. hands it's a big loaf of bread he's just. standing on the road on the street he's. not back at Brother's home he's free. with that the car just drives. off wow so they kind of saved him yeah. they did they could have sent him back. um I don't think that they knew anything. of the true torture of what was going on. at Brother's home but they had a lot. more Mercy than the guards at Brother's. home clearly they just thought if this.

guy doesn't want to go back that much. that he's begging and crying and willing. to climb over a barbed wir fence maybe. he doesn't want to go back it's an even. more complicated feeling though because. at first Jung said it feels very surreal. he escaped he's free but then he starts. panicking his dad is still there but he. also starts panicking more because he. realizes what is he going to do call the. cops and tell them that his dad is in. brother's home it's not like he can tell. the police the police are the one that. took them in there is nobody that he can.

trust he was only ever taught ever since. he was a little kid hey when you're in. danger report it to the police station. and ask the police for help now what. Jung decides if he's going to get his. dad out he still has to try and survive. until then he finds ironically a. newspaper Distribution Center he starts. working there sleeping there eating. there and then one day the cops barge in. and they take him in they arrest him why. one of the neighbors reported a vagrant.

was living at the Distribution Center. what they arrested him for being vagrant. and just like in season 2 of squid games. just like kiun the main character when. Jung opens his eyes he's back in a blue. tracksuit in a bunk bed at the brother's. home you are kidding me yeah how long. was he out a few months but he's a lot. more bloodier now from all the beatings. from running away he said in that moment. he realized I'm never going to get out.

of here I'm never going to get out of. here at least alive another Survivor. says as you keep getting beaten up you. know you just you just give up the end. of all this waiting you think you're. waiting to escape the end of all of it. is just death there's nothing to wait. for except the day that you die nobody's. coming to save you wait so this was okay. they started this whole Initiative for. the Olympic right it was prior to the. Olympics but they amped it up and the. government started pouring more money.

into these welfare centers prior to the. Olympics but the initiative started. years before years before yes so. meanwhile when this happened like he's. now it's what like three years into this. yes has the Olympic started yet or after. like oh it's after I mean even after. they're still taking people oh so now. it's like they don't need to like put on. anything for the for the tourism they're. still taking people on from the streets. wow wow okay Han and his older sister.

the one who wrote the book Han they're. dragged to the police station by their. dad their dad's always been very. irresponsible when he's drunk but it. never was it never was like this bad. there were beatings here and there but. this felt very different he drags them. to the police station stay here Dad will. be back in theory this is the best place. for their dad to leave them in reality. this is the worst place for their dad to. leave them cuz remember the police are. the ones taking them in Han is nine he.

says I mean my dad told us to wait at. the police station for him he promised. he would come back and get us the police. don't care why did he the dad left him. there it's unclear if he was trying to. abandon his kids cuz it was too much. responsibility or whether he was in some. sort of trouble and he wouldn't be home. for a few days and it'd be better to. leave his kids at a police station than. to leave them alone so the father. doesn't know he has no clue that. brother's home is a torturous place or.

that they're even going to get sent to. brother's home he thinks they're going. to be there when he gets back okay wow. yeah the Korean police stations are a. little bit different so in Korea there's. even things like police boxes it's like. a little box police officers are. stationed in neighborhoods and they're. part of the community you don't really. see them as like a cop yeah like a. security you could can talk so it's a. little more communal and he thought okay. they'll be here when I get back if I do. decide to come back for them the police. don't care they throw the two Han and.

his sister into the back of the. refrigerated windowless van they drive. them two brothers home wait so Han had a. has a sister older or younger older. sister she's 12 he's nine okay and in. the van Han says you know I started. crying I I was asking to be let out and. to be able to go home for a moment I. remember the sky turning completely. white I heard a noise like cicas were. embedded stuck inside my ears and then. the stars were going around my eyes and.

then once that gradually faded I. realized that man just slapped me so. hard I almost lost Consciousness I. looked around the van only then did I. realize there were about five other kids. our age in the car besides the strange. men and that's how I ended up at. Brother's home Han just like the others. he has to go through all the survival. games which consist of very creative. ways to just torture everyone in blue. tracksuits the guards just torture. thousands of people and like I said some. of them are as young as four some of.

them are elderly people the torture is. non-discriminatory everybody's getting. tortured and the torture doesn't even. end with the Twisted activities this. whole place is almost manufactured to. make every aspect of the day feel like. walking on glass shards that have been. heated to be 100° there are two time. slots for food for the day designated. time slots there is exactly 30 minutes. to eat which sounds like more than. enough time until you realize there's. 3,500 people who have 30 minutes to.

eat everyone only has about 3 and 1/2. minutes to grab their food sit down. inhale it before getting up for the next. people to sit down you always hear first. X number of people go go go people are. getting smacked and beaten up if they're. not eating fast enough the first few. meal times are said to be the hardest. because it's hard to even swallow the. food that they're giving you let alone. do it in 3 and 1/2 minutes just. shoveling it in you would spend at least. the greater chunk of that time just. gagging the food is almost always the.

same it's rotten rice so the rice they. leave it in these damp containers and. they become moldy and there's those rice. bugs everywhere they don't rinse the. rice they don't get rid of the bugs they. just steam it just like that fermented. fish but the fish is always rotten and. it's fermented without seasonings. there's fermented cabbage but there's no. red pepper flakes to make the kimchi so. it's just salt sprinkled kimchi diced. radish kimchi there would be some soup.

on some days but it would just be water. with nasty oil floating around and then. little radishes just floating around it. is not only a nutritionist meal every. single ingredient is moldy spoiled and. to the point that it was almost decaying. and they just slop it all together in. water cook it into a fermented rotten. stew and serve it with rotten molded. unwashed rice steamed to food poisoning. perfection even if you can stand the. taste and digestion of the decaying food. there's still not enough food given to.

you to fill your stomach everyone in. there is starving at all times of the. day everybody is malnourished and that's. when you find out things that you never. really think you would ever find out H. says he has a lot of knowledge that most. people probably don't have for example. if you eat too many pine cones or pine. needles you get diarrhea and you're. going to vomit for days he says well you. can pick the pine cones peel off the. outer layer with your teeth and then. chew on the white part inside kind of.

like an artichoke you can't really. swallow it but you can at least feel. like you're eating something or if you. have the chance you can catch and eat. centipedes it will feel like the most. nutrient-dense meal at the brother's. home it's hard to say which part of that. is worse is it the Torture Games is it. the food or is it that non-stop itch. that you feel on every part of your body. that makes you want to scrape your skin. off but you can't because the minute. that your skin breaks there's just puss. oozing out almost every single person in.

brother's home has a severe skin disease. most of them have severe eczema and. their skin is just Raw it's throbbing it. feels like there's a heartbeat under. every part of their skin every single. day without fail regardless it feels. like their skin is about to slop off. they're forced to scrub themselves on. this sensitive skin with coarse salt. during the winter the ice cold water. combined with the salt is so unbearable. everyone avoid washing at all Han writes.

in his book many of us had skin diseases. because we also shared. blankets and you know hygiene was poor. everybody's skin was always leaking puss. and blood and it's now being rubbed all. over everybody else under the blankets. and the shared bunks and at night when. you think okay maybe I'm getting used to. the itch of this eczema itch and having. these dry open raw wounds scraped with. salt just when you think you're used to. it at night there's the um you hear a. lot of smacking sounds in mother's home. at night they're light smacking sounds.

because you can't be too loud a slap. helps more than a scratch maybe it's in. your head because you think the lice are. dying from each smack it's the intense. inescapable itch of pubic lice even if. you think the itch is bearable it's the. type of crawling sensation down there. that makes you feel like there are a. thousand little bugs crawling over you. it feels like they're trying to crawl. inside of you lice the only chance of. getting rid of the lice is once a week. you get a hot water bath for 2 seconds.

and it's only it's the only time to try. and get rid of all the foreign friends. it also doesn't help that you only have. two pairs of clothes the two blue. tracksuits which by the way they're so. crazy about everyone being uniform a lot. of people say it felt like North Korea. in there because it doesn't even make. sense why the uniformity was so. important yeah even if the zipper is. broken and can't be zipped up if the. uniform requires it to be zipped up you. have to find a way to get it to stay.

closed otherwise you will be beaten to. death 600 people died in here at least H. says it doesn't matter if your pants are. the waistband stretches out you have to. find a way to tie it with no supplies. because yeah your pants falling down. sure in front of 4,000 people it's a. little embarrassing but you're going to. get beaten everyone's fingernails look. like they've been gwed off by rats. they're always trimmed incredibly short. there are only five nail clippers for. the whole place but if you have long.

nails you get beat so everybody just. chews off their nails wow but there's no. money in the torture itself because. that's what doesn't make sense who is. funding the brother's home why does it. exist so if the government funds. brother's home and every quote unquote. vagrant that gets brought in there's. government subsidies the people who run. Brothers home they get paid per person. per day mhm but that's not where the. real money is okay so a few years ago. there was a story that a good chunk of.

the prison population in China don't. have fingernails you're talking about. today yes you know it's like a whole. thing everyone's like where are their. fingernails going are they chewing them. off are they being ripped off like why. don't they have fingernails are there. certain conditions inside the prisons. where their fingernails just fall off. what's going on they do some. investigating and a lot of the American. consumption of pre-peeled garlic is. peeled in Chinese prisons so a lot of. these people they would say you try to. because you have to meet a quota every. single month you have to peel enough.

garlic slices and garlic has certain. compounds where if you keep peeling them. your finger nails pop off wow okay and. it's not just China but incarcerated. workers produce over $2 billion worth of. goods annually even in the US about 2/3. of the prison population work and a lot. of them for some weird reason are in the. food industry the prison complex and the. agricultural business are like hand. inand so they're working you're saying. yes and they're getting paid like 20.

cents a day are you talking you talking. about brother's home or yes everywhere. so in US prisons they're working in. prisons across the world they're working. and then in brother's home brother's. home is this crazy trickle of money the. facility gets paid by the government. just for housing the vagrants but. Brothers home is like why don't we make. more money because what are they doing. all day these people that we have laying. around mhm let's have them work toys. children toys stationary baby shoes.

toothpicks that's what they're making. NeverEnding Cycle One Survivor says if. the overall production Target wasn't met. they would stop all the work they would. send the workers out into the field and. they would beat us one by one. mercilessly with these giant pliers and. hammers on the inner thighs your inner. thighs would be all bruised and my only. thought at work was I must not get hit. the worst part was a lot of the kids. worked in fishing hooks factories they. have to make fishing hooks so these.

factories oh is that what those 60. buildings are just different factories. different factories and different. warehouses to house these people they. have a church on the premises they have. a medical unit which just consists of. they rip you open and pour salt into. your wound and rub it around oh my God. they have a psych ward the government. wants to get paid for these people but. you can't beat them into submission a. lot of them have really lost their minds. in there.

so they just throw them into the psy. wward where they drug them Non-Stop and. they just get essayed and abused do you. know if this facility is still around. today or they no it has been replaced by. apartment. buildings yes because back then puan was. not as um it wasn't that big of a city I. mean it was but it wasn't what it is. now wow yeah so the worst for the. children though is this one Factory. where you make fishing hooks they say.

when you work that quickly making. fishing hooks the hook gets stuck under. your fingernails and the purpose of a. fishing hook is not release whatever. it's latched on to so when you work. quickly the hooks get stuck and when you. pull it out your nail gets pulled out as. well you have to tear the flesh to get. them out they say you rip off your own. fingernails to get the hooks out because. you can't work and produce when you have. fishing hooks stuck on each of your. nails there's not even time to think. about what you're doing it's just. constant thoughts of if I don't do this.

the beating is going to be worse than. this they keep working faster and faster. One Survivor says the day starts at 5: we make our beds we have to do that in 5. seconds very quickly like the military. if not you're going to get beaten by the. guard the first thing in the morning. then they do roll call then you go. outside then you do the washroom with. just salt 3 seconds of water salt for. face wash salt as toothpaste then you. have to sing the military anthem and one. of the survivors says I don't understand.

the point in that if we were not in sync. we were beat it it just didn't make any. sense what the point was it's not even a. real. military then they would be sent off to. the. factories Survivor States they forced. people to work in factories to produce. products and then those products would. be sold to the public the facility. pocketed money from the products as well. as benefiting from the Free Labor as. well as getting paid government. subsidies another Survivor States after. all of that for 14 and 15 year-olds were. forced to carry sacks that weighed 60.

lbs back and forth for construction to. happen all those buildings oh they're. building it too huh were built by. them W it was a nightmare this was crazy. the children were unable to keep up they. would get beat so the kids avoid getting. beat they're forced to work harder the. survival Instinct would kick in and it. was astonishingly painful they were. forced to build the wall even that held. them prisoner the giant 30ft wall that. made it nearly impossible to escape they.

were forced to build it they say to. build this wall you have to carry up. Stones one of the adults in front of me. became exhausted and sat down for a. moment to rest the guard on sight. smashed the man's head with a wooden bat. and he died on the spot yeah that was. the first death that this Survivor. witnessed it wouldn't be the last but. because it was the first he said he was. so consumed with fear he couldn't eat or. sleep for the next few days and in Squid. games there's this subplot I'm sure you. guys have all watched season 1 and even.

if you haven't watched season 2 the. subplot is continuing we don't really. know how it's going to resolve yet so I. don't know if this is a spoiler but. there is a subplot of the guards the. pink uniform wearing guards in Squid. games they will take the bodies that. they've shot down the losers of the game. if you will and they're supposed to. shoot them dead but instead of killing. them they immobilize them then they take. them into this little bunker where a. doctor shows up to try and sell the. organs the orans it's very fascinating.

the levels of profit so the VIP clients. they get their entertainment out of. these people dying out of watching them. kill each other for survival and for. money that's their entertainment to the. guards that are one step above the. contestants they take advantage of the. contestants by in death selling their. organs and profiting mhm the same goes. for brother's home right cuz that's my. question why are they so evil like you. you don't yeah okay. the facility will continue to profit.

even if the victims die one Survivor. whose sole job was to clean up messes. particularly the messes of people who. were escaped recaptured and beaten he. says my job was to clean up after them. but how how do I clean it up wiping away. the blood stains cleaning up the. aftermath I mean I saw people all laying. there on the floor with their eyes wide. open they were dead the total number of. people that died is said to be around. 551 but it's likely that the numbers are.

far higher than that one Survivor says. there are so many graves there if you. look behind the church where the weeds. grow thick some days you would see. Mounds being made just so many there's. like a bath house there right in front. of it is this incinerator a lot of Bones. would come out of that incinerator I. remember a man named Kim he was quite. old at the time this is a direct quote. he was carried into a secret guidance. room that's what they called it that's. where they would beat us into guidance.

to listening to the guards better not. trying to escape he was forced into that. room and carried out I watched he was. dead he died from beating but I was told. everyone would just report it as some. sort of natural illness as his cause of. death and that sometimes if the beating. scars aren't that bad they would sell. them for medical studies they would Body. Farm they would sell the bodies just. like squeaking. yes one Survivor States yeah I mean if.

the bodies weren't needed the guards. would carry it up to the church at dawn. and to the mass Graves one victim States. people were starved beaten and killed. and their deaths were never reported. they just buried them or sold them all. the kids are freezing that's like a huge. thing all the survivors mention over and. over again you don't understand the. winters in this place you don't. understand how cold it gets when there's. snow falling everywhere and you're. shivering too the bone your lips are. constantly bleeding because you're so.

dry it is miserable some people had. frostbitten Toes that had to be. amputated and then what did they do. after they amputate it they just rubed. salt on it they said it's that bad. underneath the facility there's this. little warehouse storage room and it's. filled to the brim with clothes like. uniforms or oh better clothes they're. making no oh okay so remember how I said. this is not a cult story uh-huh so why. do they have this giant church is it. just because one of the leaders like one.

of the Facility Owners is religious no. because religion is used to Reelin. donations for brother's home from the. outside brother's home is a very. legitimate welfare center they're. actually the biggest welfare center that. is funded by the government and now. they're going to ask for donations from. people around the world the director of. brother's home was smart he did not care. for Jesus not even one bit he's not a. religious man but Survivor said they. used religion to add more money to their. business if there's no religion involved.

in their Center who would donate money. it's a government funded facility but. you tell people I'm Christian I'm a. Christian doing good things I need. donation money donation money from. foreigners would flood in they would. donate just cases of clothes and the. kids were forced to write thank you. notes to All the donors because you need. it in childish handwriting this is. crazy sometimes they would have have. American donors stop by that work with.

like adoption agencies in America or. even big churches in America they would. fly to Korea to visit brother's home and. everyone would prepare for months the. kids would put on plays they would dance. around they'd be forced to do all these. things and then once they leave they. have to give everything back the. basement would be filled with those. donated clothes and they would sell them. another layer of profit so sold to local. clothing. stores this one odd time a bunch of.

donors donated a bunch of cows cattle to. be used for consumption and Han said. they took the cow and paraded it around. the field taking pictures with all of us. smiling with the cow and showed it off. and everybody was so happy thinking we. would get beef bone soup or something. the next day and the next day it was. just rotten oil broth no beef they took. the cows to the market to be sold but. the worst part for 9-year-old Han is not. even the fact that he's not drinking. beef bone soup it's the fact that he was.

taken with his 12-year-old sister and. his older sister keeps trying to escape. with him every single time she stands in. the field she would Sprint towards him. ready to escape with him but she has no. plan she has no plan she would just try. to grab his hand and say I'm going to. protect you let's go we're going to go. home and every time she would get. slammed down onto the ground and beaten. in front of Han he says the beatings. torture and punishments it wouldn't stop. her from getting to me H says about a.

sister you know my older sister was. especially smart so our researchers. actually met Han and his older sister. they left like a video message for us as. well but he says his older sister is. especially smart and capable which our. researchers actually noted and we'll. talk about that in part three she's like. the only blood relative that taught Han. anything cuz they're poor Village kids. he doesn't know how to right she would. teach him and then on their way home one.

day this is when they were free he saw. this tyona cart it's just all full. circle okay he sees this tyona cart the. candy cart and he's like sister can I. get a tyona and she doesn't have money. so she says you know what I'm going to. go home and I'm going to make it for you. he says my sister put a ladle on the. briquette stove it was her first time. doing this she poured in sugar added a. little bit of soda and she was about to. complete the Tona with the Chopsticks. when I kept pushing on her and like.

dragging her shirt saying can you hurry. I really want Tara and she dropped the. ladle it fell all over her foot she has. a severe burn cuz the sugar crystallizes. and it sticks to you all over her foot. he says I still remember that incident. and when their dad who both of them. thought was very scary he would come. home and ask sh what happened to your. foot and she would quickly respond I. dropped a pot while I was making soup. don't worry about it H says his sister. was always somebody that protected him.

and even now she keeps trying to protect. him by having them Escape but all that's. happening is she keeps getting beat over. and over again she would run to him in. the cafeteria trying to hug him father's. going to come find us okay don't be. scared father's going to come find us he. says you can't imagine how difficult it. was to look at each other in that. atmosphere of fear rather than being a. source of support or comfort for each. other it just became more painful I. lived witnessing my sister gradually. losing her mind okay so in the book it's. very explicit but I think he would.

rather it not be explicit. so H mentions that people from his. sister's platoon would come to him and. report back the types of torture that. were inflicted on her because she tried. to save her brother and the types of. torture you can imagine what they are. especially being a woman in a facility. like this in some sick twisted way some. of the kids would even taunt him about. it he said I lived witnessing my sister. gradually losing her mind first it was.

just this Panic of we got to get out of. here I'm going to help us escape and. then slowly she would start talking to. the walls she would do anything it. doesn't matter she wouldn't feel her own. pain of being beat when Han got beat on. the field she would run and cover his. body with her own and it would just. result in both of them getting beat and. her torture was I mean both of them were. essayed during their time there but it. was just really bad he says I lived. witnessing my sister gradually losing.

her mind if she had been completely out. of my sight I might have forgotten her. existence entirely but because she was. next to me for 3 years and 6 months I. witnessed everything and I can't forget. it every time his sister would be in the. field the guards would laugh the. weirdo's coming the weirdo's coming. again she's starting again and without. fail when Han would look it would be his. sister running towards him trying to. help him escape and the guards that were. laughing what what 2 seconds ago. suddenly they yank her down by the hair. as she rushes towards him throws her.

onto the ground and drags her away. forcibly to torture her eventually she. was taken to the psych ward where Han. would climb the window just to see her. there was a few platoon leaders that he. liked like the guards where they were. tall and they would let him climb on top. of their shoulders to see in through the. window just to see his sister and he. thought maybe if she sees my face she'll. get better and she won't lose her mind. and she'll realize okay I got to get out. of here strong but when he looks into. the room she doesn't even recognize him.

because she is not there they have her. on so many they have her on anticho. discs that she does not need on high. doses every single day she's in a days. she just has a glaze it's like they're. zombies that's how they describe them he. says every time I went to check on my. sister to see if she was ever getting. better she was always laying down with. her hands. tied there was nothing I could do for my. sister all I could do every day was pray. that my father would come and save.

[Music]. us he says his biggest regret was before. she was taken to the psych ward um one. of the leaders was beating his sister. the guard and they told Han I'm not. going to stop until you repeat after me. don't come find me you. stupid and they would make Han repeat it. over and over again because he wasn't. saying it with conviction obviously and. he's just crying as he's screaming at.

his sister and she's on the ground and. she still tries to come save him the. next day then one day Han hears a voice. that he recognizes behind him have you. been well and he. freezes he can't even turn around how's. your sister doing it's his. dad he's in the suit tracksuit too just. like Jung's dad Han's dad is in a suit a. track. suit Han writes in his book I I tasted. despair I hated my father to death.

because he dropped them off at the. police station and he was never. particularly the best father even prior. he said the thought that I could never. escape this place now tormented me and. now this man is wondering how's your. sister doing Hans scoffs she's gone. she's no longer there seeing his dad. Hans said he just had this overwhelming. feeling and these were the words that. kept repeating in his mind while he was. in the Ware Center which is with a knife. with a knife he didn't know what it.

meant it was just always with a knife. I'm going to do it with a knife with a. knife the next time Han would ever see. his dad outside of brother's home he. would have a knife in his pocket ready. to kill him that is part two of squid. games the real story behind squid Games. part three we will tell you what. happened to Han and Han's sister Han's. dad as well as all the other victims who. were outside of the national assembly. and also the family who does not get.

punished and are in Australia living as. millionaires so stay tuned for part. three leave your thoughts in the. comments and stay safe I'll see you in. the next one. [Music].