Inside the 'real Squid Game' - brutal brothers' Home where hundreds were tortured to death

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Viewers have been left obsessing over the second season of Squid Games, which sees previous winner Seong Gi-hun - Player 456 - (Lee Jung-jae) return to the backstairs contest.And fans of the show have spotted disturbing similarities with a very real horror story.

The South Korean show, created for Netflix by screenwriter and director Hwang Dong-hyuk, is based around a criel competition where contestants play a host of deceptively innocent-looking children's games for a shot at winning a life-changing sum of money, reports the Mirror.Those who lose are gunned down mercilessly by masked guards while a group of wealthy men known as the 'VIPs' place bets on players.The murderous show aims to create a visual representation of the stark contrast berween rich and poor, taken to dystopian extremes.

However, despite the show being fiction, a number of fans have noted a striking similarity between Squid Games and a truly shocking series of events that unfolded in South Korea in the '70s and '80s.From 1976 to 1987, the sinister 'Brothers' Home' operated in Busan, South Korea - and the deceitfully welcome name still sparks fear into those who managed to survive.

The horrific facility was the largest and most notorious of the 36 detention facilities designed to 'cleanse' South Korea's streets of "symbols of the poverty and disorder of cities", with then-President Chun Doo-Hwan ordering a tougher approach to begging.The dictator wrote a letter to the then-Prime Minister Nam Duck-woo, demanding "protective measures against vagrants" were taken.