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The Island (Korean: 섬, "Seom") is the location where the Squid Games competition takes place annually in the 2021 survival drama thriller horror streaming TV series Squid Game/Ojing-eo Geim. It is an island at an unknown location. There, all the people who accepted to join the games are taken to play death games. In the 2020's edition, 456 players were taken to the island.
Design[]
The island has a large facility where the games are held. This building has various colorful rooms, giving the location and child-like atmosphere. Inside these rooms, there are also cameras, as the players and staff are constantly being watched by the Masked Managers and the Front Man.
The rooms within the facility include a hangar, which has several bunks and is used as a dormitory for the players. Hidden by the many bunks, the walls have black designs with illustrations of all games of the competition. As players are eliminated during the games, the bunks are removed by the staff until these designs are fully visible. An enormous transparent piggy bank is also lowered from the ceiling in the middle of this room during the competition. The piggy bank is filled with the accumulated prize money after each game. The Masked Wokers each have a dormitory room. A worker's room is small with a single bed, a sink, a metal toilet, and a table.
The facility has game halls prepared for each game. The field, which was used as the location of the first and final game of the 33rd competition, is one of them. Next to a tree, there is a giant robot doll named Young-hee, which is a motion sensor, used in the Red Light, Green Light game. The roof of the room is a set of mechanized panels that stay open during the games, so the sky can be seen. These panels have their top with a camouflage to look like a forest, hiding the game hall once they are closed.
The playground is a game hall used as the location of the second game. This game hall is a colorful room with a climbing structure, an spherical merry go round, a slide and a swing set. Other game halls are spaces as the ones used in third and fifth games, where the staff constructed structures as the platforms and the glass bridge respectively. Finally, the game hall used for the fourth game was constructed to look like a neighborhood.
There is also a white room, which is the place players are taken if they need to form teams before the game, as in the third and fourth games. They were also taken to this room before the fifth game, to choose one of 16 mannequins with numbered vests, and set up the order in which players would cross the glass bridge.
To move to the game halls mentioned above, the staff and players must walk through a sequence of colorful hallways and spiral staircases. The connections between the rooms is like a labyrinth and one can get lost, if the person doesn't know the way around.
The facility also has tunnels as secret passageways. Those are to allow the escape of the VIPs in case of an emergency. Once they escaped safely, a bomb is set to go off and bury the tunnels. The VIPs also have luxury rooms from where they can watch the games.
The entire competition is overseen in a control room, where computers display the images from the cameras. The floor of the room has a mosaic panel showing the pictures of the players are their numbers. These pictures go dark if the player is eliminated from the games.
History[]
At some point, the island was chosen to be the location of the Squid Games. With the money of the creator of the games (Oh Il-nam) and the benefactors (the VIPs), all the structures needed for the games were prepared on the island.
2020[]
456 individuals with severe financial trouble were taken to the island after being put to sleep by a gas. The players were moved to the island by ship. Then, they had all their clothes and all belongs confiscated by the masked workers. The workers then dressed the unconscious players in their Squid Game uniforms before the begining of the games.
During the first game (Red Light, Green Light), 255 died and 201 survived. Terrified, the majority of the players voted to stop the games, so they were taken back to their homes.They were later allowed to rejoin the games after the majority decided to return. With this, 187 players were taken to the island to resume the competition.
As the players rejoined, dectetive Hwang Jun-ho infiltrated in games by taking identities of members of the staff and came to the island to find his old brother, Hwang In-ho, not knowing that In-ho is a staff member. Jun-ho managed to remain disguised for days and get a lot of information about the games. He was eventually confronted by the masked men, including his own (the Front Man) after escaping to a neighbor island. After being shot and falling off a cliff, Jun-ho status is unknown. It is also unknown if the information Jun-ho tried to send to the police went through because of poor reception on this neighbor island.
The 33rd Squid Game ended with Seong Gi-hun, Player 456, as the winner. After the games, Gi-hun was taken back home with the ₩45.6 billion prize money. He would spend an entire year without touching this money, as result of being traumatized by the games. In 2021, he eventually used it to help the younger brother of Kang Sae-byeok and the mother of his childhood best friend Cho Sang-woo.
Staff[]
- Oh Il-nam † - The Host
- Hwang In-ho - The Front Man
- Masked Men
- The Salesman
- The VIPs
Known Players[]
- Hwang In-ho - Player 132 (2015's Squid Game)
- Oh Il-nam † - Player 001
- Seong Gi-hun - Player 456
- Cho Sang-woo † - Player 218
- Kang Sae-byeok † - Player 067
- Ali Abdul † - Player 199
- Han Mi-nyeo † - Player 212
- Ji-yeong † - Player 240
- Jang Deok-su † - Player 101
- Player 278 †
- Player 040 †
- Player 303 †
- Various other unnamed contestants