How Ali from 'Squid Game' is making migrant worker exploitation in Korea more visible.
Thousands of Pakistanis have existed in South Korea for decades, but the character Ali Abdul, played by Indian actor Anupam Tripathi, is now making their stories visible to a global audience.
CedarBough T. Saeji, assistant professor of Korean and East Asian studies at Pusan National University in South Korea, said it’s a combination of both. To understand how Ali is written, she said, it’s important to know how he got there. A Southeast Asian character, Player 276 , appears on"Squid Game" and befriends Ali in the fourth episode.
Korean officials promised reform earlier this year after a 31-year-old Cambodian farm worker died on the job. Field workers are often left to sleep in plastic shipping containers or unventilated huts,Though Saeji noted that Ali speaks near-perfect Korean, she guessed he is undocumented, given his inability to fight his wages being withheld by reporting his boss.
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