"Squid Game" - The Hidden Clues You Missed
The Netflix production "Squid Game" has completely blown up, and its ending is getting a lot of buzz. What clues did you miss during the show?
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A Korean fan who speaks both English and Korean clarifies some scenes. Starting with a rather minor "translation error" where a character says "Go away!" according to the English subtitle, but literally translated, it would be "What are you looking at". Later on, according to the English translation, someone says "I'm not a genius, but I can understand", but what this person actually says in the original is "I'm very smart, I just never had a chance to study". This speaks to a common situation in Korea, that people without money have little access to education. In the last scene, which she translates for us, she explains that in the English translation Il-nam and Gi-hun say the phrase "We share everything". But in the Korean original, you'll hear the sentence "We don't claim ownership of each other," which is a big difference in ideological understanding.
Attentive fans came across something else:
