FIND OUT WHERE SQUID GAME SEASON 1 WAS SHOT ON NETFLIX! FILMING LOCATIONS AND MORE.
Squid Game is available on Netflix! If you want to know all about the Season 1 filming locations, read on! The first half-hour of Squid Game, Netflix’s top-rated new series, features Seong Gi-hun, a middle-aged gamer so unlucky that he steals money from his elderly mother. To find out when Season 2 will be released, read this
And give his young daughter a pistol-shaped lighter for her birthday, because that’s the only thing he was able to get out of the plier’s machine where he put his last coins. After meeting a well-dressed recruiter at a train station, Gi-hun accepts an opportunity to earn some money.
He boards a van is knocked unconscious by gas and awakens in a dormitory with almost 400 other individuals. A voice from a loudspeaker tells them that they are going to fight for a lot of money. How many, they don’t know yet.
But it is 45.6 billion South Korean won, or about 38 million US dollars by playing children’s games. If you want to know the explanation at the end, read this. Otherwise, we reveal the shooting locations of Squid Game on Netflix!
WHERE WAS SQUID GAME SEASON 1 FILMED ON NETFLIX?
The majority of Squid Game was shot in Daejeon, a city in central South Korea. The first season of Squid Game, according to the cast and crew, was shot without much CGI. For the filming of some of Season 1’s most important scenes, real sets were erected.
Especially the games, and hundreds of people were involved. Hwang said the process was not easy, as Squid Game would be the first Korean series to revolve around a death game, and he had no references to draw inspiration from. But looking at the result, it’s clear he did it right.
Daejeon is the fifth-largest city in South Korea. The city is within a short distance from Seoul. The KTX or SRT bullet trains take roughly 50 minutes to get from Seoul to Daejeon. Since the Stone Age, people have lived in the area.
It was then turned into a strategic military base. Daejeon joined Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, and Ulsan as metropolitan cities in 1995. Daejeon is a major cultural and artistic hub in South Korea. There is also a booming entertainment business in the city.