Ssangmun-dong doesn’t really have any tourist attractions, but has a mix of newer developments and the kind of modest streets recreated in Squid Game’s notorious “Gganbu” episode. A woman pours makgeolli into a bowl inside a bar in Seoul (Photo: Getty) The enormously popular TV series Reply 1988, about a group of friends coming of age in the run-up to the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and the beloved cartoon Dooly The Little Dinosaur were also set there. It’s no accident that Squid Game’s two central characters, Gi-hun and Sang-woo, hail from this neighbourhood in far north-eastern Seoul, as the area has long been something of an Everytown in the Korean imagination. Favoured film settingĪ good place to start might be Ssangmun-dong. “I enjoy walking through small streets, where humanity shines brighter, where people grow and dry their own vegetables, where neighbours chat under trees,” says Stephane Mot, a writer and long-time Seoul resident who played one of the Squid Game VIPs.
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