The television show Squid Game has been a worldwide hit. Korean actors and productions have long received good reviews from critics, but this is the first time that a drama has been able to perform so well in Korea and around the world at the same time. As such, a cross-sectional study is required to see why people around the world are so enthusiastic about Squid Game. The show needs to be studied academically, focusing on the commonality and differences between Eastern and Western cultures. It should be noted, for instance, that the space of Squid Game is similar to the amphitheater of ancient Rome. Historically, Rome had a culture of training slaves as gladiators and watching them fight. The representative cultural contents that reproduce this are the film Spartacus made in 1960, the 2000 film Gladiator, and the American drama Spartacus (2010-2014). The inhuman behavior of watching gladiatorial slaves implies an impending revolution, a subversion that reappears in Squid Game. The contestants are trained like prisoners or troops, and their lives are tightly controlled, but the characters eventually change the heterotopia into a nomadic, revolutionary space. The lines representing this shift are the voice of Spartacus, who shouts “I am not an animal,” and Sung Ki-Hoon, who shouts “I am not a horse.” The participants in Squid Game and Spartacus are those who failed in the capitalist system, and are now revolting against it.