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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.