Watch: Fans Go Wild As South Korea Hosts A Real-Life Squid Game Parade

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Squid Game fans in South Korea celebrated the final season with a street rally, featuring iconic symbols from the show, captured in a viral video.
Squid Game fever has taken over the world. As the third and final season of Netflix's blockbuster hit show premiered on June 27, fans in South Korea decided to take the excitement around it a notch higher. They organised a full-blown street rally featuring all the quintessential symbols associated with the popular survival drama.
A viral video capturing this moment, shared by digital content creator Rana Adil Mushtaq, based in South Korea, has garnered over 1.2 million views, and fans of the show are loving it. It featured a group of people dressed in the iconic pink jumpsuits with masks walking down the street alongside a large motion-sensing female animatronic doll used during the Red Light, Green Light games. Black coffins, where deceased players were laid to rest in the show, were also a part of the rally.
As the video continued, some people in the parade were also seen wearing two-coloured jumpsuits, just like the 456 players in Squid Game. Few men were also seen in formal suits, just like Gong Yoo's mysterious character as the Salesman. Other symbols of the show in the parade featured the iconic games like jump rope and mingle. There were large balloons featuring the shapes used in the Dalgona challenge, as well as a big piggy bank filled with 45.6 billion Korean won, just like in the show. The caption atop the video read: 'Pov: You are in South Korea watching Squid Game in real life."
Online users took to the comments section to react to the Squid Game-themed parade in South Korea. One said, 'You are lucky, and we cry while watching season 3." Another added, 'Now I want to be in Korea really bad.. Please." A different user wrote, 'Seriously, you are the luckiest person living in Korea and seeing real-life Squid Game."
Squid Game 3 finally answered many questions of the fans, but it turned out to be the ending that no one was expecting. Seong Gi Hun, aka Player 456, played by Lee Jung Jae, returned to the deadly games in the second season to end it once and for all. However, he dies by the end of season 3 for the 'greater good." The character's final words on the show were, 'We are not horses. We are humans", which is really important, as it relates to the show's slogan about how low humanity may descend.
Besides Jung Jae, the final instalment of the show featured Lee Byung Hun, Wi Ha Joon, Im Siwan, Park Sung Hoon, Kang Ae Shim, Yang Dong Geun, and Chae Gook Hee.
First Published:
June 30, 2025, 12:26 IST