THE ASIAN REPORTER
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Hong Phat
Supermarket
101 SE 82nd Ave.
Portland
characters, like Ali Abdul,
an undocumented factory
worker from Pakistan with
severed fingers and a boss
who refuses to pay him,
epitomizing
how
the
country exploits some of
the poorest people in Asia
while ignoring dangerous
working conditions and
wage theft.
And Kang Sae-byeok, a
pickpocketing
North
Korean refugee who had
known nothing but rough
life on the streets and is
desperate for money to
rescue her brother from an
orphanage and to smuggle
her mother out of the
North.
Many South Koreans
despair of advancing in a
society where good jobs are
increasingly scarce and
housing prices have sky-
rocketed, enticing many to
borrow heavily to gamble
on risky financial invest-
ments or cryptocurrencies.
Household debt, at over
1,800 trillion ($1.5 trillion),
now exceeds the country’s
annual economic output.
Tough times have pushed a
record-low birth rate lower
as struggling couples avoid
having babies.
Squid Game’s global
success is hardly a cause
for pride, Se-Jeoung Kim, a
South Korean lawyer based
in Poland, wrote in a Seoul
Shinmun
newspaper
column.
“Foreigners will come to
you, saying they too
watched “Squid Game”
with fascination, and may
ask whether Ali’s situation
in the drama could really
happen in a country that’s
as wealthy and neat as
South Korea, and I would
have nothing to say,” she
said.
Kim
Jeong-wook,
another Ssangyong worker
who spent months with Lee
perched atop a chimney at
a Ssangyong factory in
2015,
demanding
the
company to rehire the fired
workers, said he couldn’t
watch “Squid Game” after
episode one.
“It was too traumatic for
me,” he said.
AP Entertainment Writer Juwon
Park contributed to this story.
Smart robots do all the work
at Nissan’s ‘intelligent’ plant
Continued from page 16
vehicles. The company says
the innovation eliminates
the need for rare earth
materials, cutting costs.
Nissan
said
the
innovations being tested in
Tochigi will be gradually
rolled out at its other global
plants, including French
alliance partner Renault’s
factories.
Sakamoto said it was
difficult to estimate exactly
how much the fully auto-
mated assembly line will
save.
But he said manu-
facturing needs to adapt to
labor shortages, to the
coronavirus pandemic, and
to lower carbon emissions
to help mitigate climate
change.
Nissan says that by 2050
it hopes to achieve carbon
neutrality
across
its
operations and the life
cycle of its products, which
includes raw material
extraction, manufacturing,
use, and recycling.
A new kind of paint that
enables vehicles’ bodies
and
bumpers
to
be
simultaneously
painted
and baked reduces energy
consumption by 25%, the
company says.
Before, vehicle bodies,
which are aluminum, and
plastic bumpers had to be
painted
separately
at
different temperatures.
Nissan is expecting to
regain profitability in this
fiscal year, but like other
automakers, it is contend-
ing with parts shortages
caused by the pandemic. Its
brand took a hit from a
scandal centered on its
former chairman, Carlos
Ghosn, who was arrested in
Japan on financial miscon-
duct charges in 2018.