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"for the second time in four seasons, the chicago blackhaws have won the stanley cup!"

June 24, 2013 || CHI @ BOS || Stanley Cup Final || Game 6

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cannot stop thinking about how good the fabrication of consent in squid game was… like yeah, the participants consent! over and over, from agreeing to the slapping game to ringing up the number of their own accord to meeting at the location to signing a separate sheet once more upon arrival… they can even disband the game if the majority decrees it. but this is all performative. because of course they’ll agree - of course they’ll come back.

the second episode is even all about addressing this ‘consent’, and that potential audience superiority: “so why don’t they just leave???? if they can??? why did they even do all this to start with?? it’s so extreme, to do all that just for money, i would never”

because, the show says, look at what they’re returning to. look at the life that’s offered as their alternative. debt up to their ears, money-brokers beating them up, poverty at its worst. do you see? do you see how yeah, joining that game is optional, but it’s optional in the sense of choosing to be stabbed or shot: theres consent, but not actual desire. that theres agreement, but under exploitation. there’s a reason only poor people are chosen to compete and it’s so obvious but i fucking love how the show handles it and addresses any audience superiority anyway

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Koo Kyo Hwan for W Korea (2020, ph. Hyea W. Kang)

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Koo Kyo Hwan for Marie Claire Korea (October 2021, ph. Yoon Song Yi)

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Koo Kyo Hwan for Marie Claire Korea (October 2021, ph. Yoon Song Yi)

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Koo Kyo Hwan for W Korea (2020, ph. Hyea W. Kang)

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there's so much of homecha that doesn't quite translate it's such a korean show. like when they brought up the same idea as in when the camellia blooms 사람 잡아먹는 팔자. people born with a fate that eats the people around them. they're not just saying dusik brings death with him they're saying his astrological fate (4 pillars 8 letters) is killing people and he is destined by the universe to be alone.

traditionally koreans practice ancestor veneration and family/clan ties are the biggest aspect of people's identity and your fate, worth, and future are a collective identity u and ur family share. if ur an orphan it means you've been abandoned, u r disconnected from ur lineage and you've done something in a past life that affects all the relationships you have in this life.

and the whole show has been working to undo this idea that it can be someone's fault they live a lonely life or that u can be destined to be lonely forever. and not in a way that says the traditional korean beliefs that inform that opinion are outdated and incorrect but by focusing on how in korean culture fate is defined as relationships and their consequences. acts of kindness and opening urself up to new ppl and reaching out can change your fate, dusik's kindness to hyejin set in motion the 7 years luck flower hyejin's dad bought for her and then it was revealed that it was dusik's grandpa's wish that even brought her into dusik's life over and over. people loving each other can counteract destiny and open opportunities for different kinds of fate. and human beings were meant to be in community together and change each other.

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Koo Kyo Hwan as Han Ho Yul - D.P (2021) - E02

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Happy Halloween!! Eat lots of candy and stuff!!!

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KOO KYO HWAN D.P. (2021) dir. Han Jun Hee

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The hot water melts the grease from the noodles and that grease melts the package, which creates endocrine disruptors. It’s really bad for you. But it’s so delicious. It’s so good that I can’t stop eating. Maybe it tastes so good, thanks to all the endocrine disruptors. What do you think? I don’t know, sir.

D.P. (2021) dir. Han Jun Hee

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I keep telling kids at work they can read manga and watch anime for free online and they’re like “but that’s illegal” and I’m like. Trying to find a way to tell them that it doesn’t matter without being a bad influence

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D.P. (2021) dir. Han Jun Hee EPISODE 2 “Daydream”

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I bet Private An and I were married in our previous lives. We’re amazing partners.  JUNG HAE IN and KOO KYO HWAN as An Jung Ho and Han Ho Yeol D.P. (2021) dir. Han Jun Hee

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Koo Kyo Hwan as Han Ho Yul┃2. Daydream D.P. (2021) dir. Han Jun Hee