What Is the Most “Ridiculous” Scene in Squid Game 3 According to Korean Netizens?

The controversy began with a viral post on Korean online forum Pann titled “Watching Squid Game Right Now and This Is Just Ridiculous,” which has quickly gained significant traction. The post targets a particular storyline involving an elderly woman who fatally stabs her own adult son—said to be in his 40s—in order to save a newborn baby and the child’s mother, whom she had just met.

“So this elderly woman, who barely knows this baby and its mom, ends up stabbing her own adult son to death… just to save them? Seriously?” the original poster wrote, expressing disbelief. “Even for a drama, isn’t that way too far-fetched? This is like a one-in-50-million scenario. Maybe if she had a mental illness or something, but otherwise, this is just too much—even for fiction.”

Korean netizens have flooded online forums with mixed but often critical responses. Many questioned the believability of the moment, while others debated the emotional logic behind the characters’ choices. Below is a translated selection of the most talked-about comments:

1. Gave birth in 10 minutes. The baby sleeps through the night from day one. Doesn’t cry much either. The mom knows if she dies, the baby will be left in that dangerous place with no breast milk, but she shows zero will to reach the child. Seriously, this part of the story is just as ridiculous. If it were me, even if my body was breaking down, I’d tie up my ankle and at least try to crawl over. Then I’d die.
2. She wasn’t protecting the baby and the mother—she was trying to stop her son from becoming a murderer.
3. Honestly, it was perfect up to the ‘gganbu’ (refers to emotionally powerful point in Season 1 when themes of trust and betrayal were at their peak) episode. Season 1 was enough.
4. This makes it even more obvious the directors have never had kids. A first-time mom giving birth in just 10 minutes? And what happened to the blood and placenta? After giving birth, mothers have heavy bleeding for days, but Jo Yu-ri’s sweatpants look fresh and clean. No diapers for the baby, so how are they handling the poop and pee? And the baby sleeps soundly right after birth, like a dream? Then the mom doesn’t even try to protect the baby or join the game—just gives up. No milk either, but she just hands the baby to Gi-hun like, ‘Here, raise it’? This whole arc is a disaster. The show should have ended with Season 1.
5. It wasn’t just about her son surviving—she was trying to stop him from becoming a killer. That’s why the mother ultimately made the extreme choice. Honestly, I think that emotional arc was understandable…

While Squid Game 3 has received widespread praise for its intense narrative and symbolic depth, this particular moment appears to have left a segment of the audience scratching their heads. The debate reflects an ongoing tension between suspension of disbelief and narrative logic in high-stakes dramas—especially when emotions, morality, and survival collide.