Access all areas: On the set of 'Squid Game' season two
Cosmopolitan India|November - December 2024
Ahead of the new series, we visited the HQ to find out what's in store.
By Olivia Blair
Access all areas: On the set of 'Squid Game' season two

A speaker plays the eerily familiar recorder notes on a loop as I step on to the set, wearing mandatory protective grey socks over my trainers. I inhale the overwhelming aroma of fresh paint (bright pink, yellow and blue: childlike colours because, well, that's the point) as I take in the scene around me. It's a cold-but-not-too-cold mid-December morning and I'm fresh off the bullet train from Seoul, arriving two hours south in the Chungcheong Province of South Korea, otherwise known as the shrouded-in-secrecy filming location of Squid Game season two.

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