- Squid Game season 2 has captured the imagination of fans all over the world
- This deadly secret game takes place on a mysterious island
- Fans have been wondering whether it’s a real place…
The Squid Game island has become synonymous with color, craziness and bloodthirsty games… but is it a real place?
Ever since this Battle Royale-style show hit Netflix in 2021, fans have been obsessed with this gruesome gambling game.
Squid Game invites down-on-their-luck cash-strapped people to play a game that could change their lives forever.
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If they agree, they’re whisked away to a mysterious island somewhere and invited into a subterranean base where masked guards enrol them into the Squid Game.
Sadly, it’s no exotic holiday. As soon as it begins, players realise the stakes – with their cash jackpot only growing when players are killed off.
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While fans pick apart almost every element of the show in anticipation for Squid Game’s third and final season, many have been left wondering whether its island setting is a real place.
So is it? Here’s what we know for sure.
Where is the Squid Game island?
Despite the show being fictional, the Squid Game island is indeed out there.
Much of the series takes place in a candy-colored set where Squid Game players live during their time in the game. It’s here where the deadly challenges are held. In the show, it’s explained that the Squid Game’s base location is located below the surface of a mystery island.
As audiences, we only see brief glimpses of this island. Most of them appear in season 1 and involve the cop Hwang Jun ho (Wi Ha-joon) trying to track down and rescue his missing brother.
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According to Condé Nast Traveller, this setting is Seongapdo, an island based off the West Coast of South Korea. The same outlet highlights how this small, crab-shaped island is part of a larger island-heavy area known as the Ongjin province.
The Squid Game island is believed to be uninhabited and apparently, it doesn’t even have electricity. Its tiny size (it’s part of a small group of volcanic islands), means it doesn’t even appear on Google Maps.
Surely, the Front Man is pretty pleased about that.
Other Squid Game filming locations
Islands aside, much of Squid Game is filmed in sets that are closed off to the general public and built specifically for the purpose of filming key scenes that take place inside the game itself.
These sets were built in the South Korean city of Daejeon, where many other South Korean movies and TV shows have been filmed. It’s the fifth largest city in the country.
Meanwhile, some sequences of Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) before he re-entered the Squid Game in season 2 were filmed in Seoul.
Various locations in the country’s capital are featured in the show. These include the Baegun Market, the Pokopang arcade and the Sangbong Intercity Bus Terminal.
