Let's start the game now (지금부터 게임을 시작하겠습니다)
This sentence is a famous quotes from Netflix's Squid Game, which is gaining explosive popularity around the world these days. The drama, which cost $21.4 million to produce, was the first Korean film to top the U.S. Netflix rankings and global rankings.
Thanks to the popularity of the movie, Korea's unique games such as <Mugunghwa flowers bloomed> and <Dalgona picking> are also drawing keen attention, and we wonder how the old games with Korean sentiments expressed in English! Shall we find out together now?
딱지치기
<ttakji-chigi> or <ddakji-chigi> or <slap-match>
The first game that appears in Squid Game is <ttakji-chigi>. It's a game where you put the scab on the ground and hit it with another scab, and when the scab on the ground turns over, you bring the scab. In the past, I would tear up a thick, stiff calendar to make a scab, and I would make it as thick as I could to keep my scab from turning over.
In the Squid Game, this is called <play ddakji>, meaning <game of slap-match>, but in general, it's called <ttakji-chigi> or <ddakji-chigi>. It's really simple, right?
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A game against someone like Ki-hoon who doesn't have enough money to participate in the squid game. A man in a suit who looks like a salesperson of the game hosts it. Each time they lose, they have to pay 100,000 won to their opponents, but if they don't have money, they can replace 100,000 won by giving them a slap. At the end of the game, a man in a suit (actor Gong Yoo) will hand over a business card containing the phone number to participate in the game. It is a game that encourages candidates to participate and verify whether they have enough desperation and will for money.
In addition, slap-match is the first folk game to appear in the work, and it is a device that divides the roles of characters and shows contrasting elements, and although it clearly gave the contestant the right to choose between red and blue tickets, the contestant candidates, including Ki-hoon, were using only blue ones. Considering Ki-hoon's hat is blue, Ki-hoon's hair dyed red at the end, and the direct mention of the movie matrix in the conversation between 'Han Mi-nyeo' and 'Ali' in the work, it is reminiscent of the matrix's red and blue drugs. If you take red medicine, you can know the world you didn't know, the true world, and blue medicine is a medicine that you live in the world made. The costumes of the host and participants are also contrasted similarly to red and blue. The video taken at this time is used to point out participants at a briefing session before the start of the game and release them along with their debt amount.
However, there are cases in which participants participate in the main game without playing slap-match to see if all participants play this game.
무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다
<red light, green light> or <mugunghwa flowers bloomed>
In Korea, many children do <mugunghwa flowers bloomed> these days, and when the tagger looks at the wall and shouts <mugunghwa flowers bloomed>, the person who moves is caught, and when he looks back, the person who came to the finish line without being caught until the end.
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<mugunghwa flowers bloomed> is called <Red light, green light> in English. It's actually a game that exists in foreign countries. It's a game that stops when the red light is on at the crossing, stops when the tagger shouts "Red light!" like crossing the street when the green light is on, and runs toward the arrival point when the tagger shouts "Green light!" It's familiar with <mugunghwa flowers bloomed> and the game rules are similar.
- North American - "Red Light, Green Light"
- UK - "Grandma's Footsteps"
- Grease - Αγαλματάκια ακούνητα, αμίλητα, αγέλαστα... Μέρα ή νύχτα (The statue does not move, speak, or laugh. Day or night!)
- Netherlands - "Annemaria Koekkoek!" (Annemaria!)
- Germany - "Eins, Zwei, Drei, Ochsam Berg" (one, two, three, bulls on the mountain)
- Austria - "Donner Wetter Hagen Blitz" (Rainy Weather Hagen Lightning)
- France - "Un, deux trois, solil" (one, two, three, sun)
- Italy - "Un, du, tre, stella" (one, two, three, star)
- Spain - "Un, dos, tres, elescondite ́lés" (one, two, three, UK hideout)
- Portugal - "Um, dois, trss, macaquinho dochin!"s!" (One, two, three, little Chinese monkey)
- Czech Republic - "Cukr, káva, limonáda, aaj, rum, bum!" (Sugar, coffee, lemonade, tea, rum, boom!)
- Mexico - "Un, dos, tres, calabaza" (one, two, three, pumpkin)
- Argentina - "Un, dos, tres, cigarrillo Cuarentay tres" (one, two, three, forty-three cigarettes)
- China - 红灯绿灯小白灯!" (Red light, green light, little white light!)
- Japan - "達磨さんが転んだ" (Dalma statue fell)
- Israel - "גגלדג מלוח" (Salted herring)
- Vietnam - "Em bé tập đi" (Baby learns to walk)
- Brazil - "Batatinha Frita 1, 2, 3" (Fried potatoes, 1, 2, 3)
By the way, this game has a very small number of hosting personnel, with automatic machines performing firing, which is the largest number of challengers As a result, it seems that there are not enough cast members to play the role of the host. In fact, it is virtually impossible for humans to control Mugunghwa flowers with this large number of people. That many people are moving, but the host cannot monitor every single person in the meantime, and the judgment is inevitably inaccurate. Even if a large-scale host is deployed to the extent that each participant is attached, such a large number of people will have no choice but to block the way, which will interfere with the progress of the game. However, considering that the first game started in 1988, in an era when there was no high-accuracy motion monitoring technology, the host would have executed the shooting while looking at the participants, or if the host declared elimination while watching the robot's camera.
달고나 뽑기
<sugar honeycomb toffee> or <dalgona ppopgi>
I'm sure that Korean adults used to be scolded for burning several ladles at home while pulling out sugar. I couldn't have been happier if I melted sugar, added soda, and swelled up! It's called <sugar honeycomb toffee>. The shape and taste are similar, so I express it like this in English!
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Participants who failed to pull out dalgona within the time limit are killed by the host agents who completely automatic machine guns by literally grinding them all. However, in this case, it was an unexpected situation called a hostage crisis, so it was very urgent, so it is unclear whether this was originally planned. Of course, it will be the same as dying, but given that the soldier tried to execute Sang-hoon immediately after the time limit, the timed participants may have a sequence of processing in a different way. To prevent their group resistance, they tricked them into one place and shot them... as if they had a second chance.
If a participant has the ability, the probability of survival is the best. Dalgona can be eliminated due to poor concentration or lack of skills, but all actions are allowed if the Dalgona is broken or the time limit is not over, so safety is guaranteed within that time. The range of allowing low behavior also includes interference with others, but there are few factors that will cause interference between participants because they are busy focusing on their own. In fact, there was no such thing as a ban on violence in the rules, so if the game had come out in the second half, the early passerby might have gone terribly dirty, like breaking other people's.
Considering the durability of dalgona, the disturbance is so simple that most of it will break even if someone passes by and pats it lightly. Even if not, the participant's probability of passing is extremely low with just one attempt to disturb because of a great disruption in concentration and anger and anxiety. Perhaps the host knew this, so it was assumed that it was assigned as an early game, and the passerby may have decided that it was against the principle of equality, so the passerby quickly sent out before doing anything else. In fact, the biggest reason was that until then, as revealed at mealtime, participants did not know that it was a game that could kill each other. That's why they didn't even think of disturbing other participants that could kill them.
Some people who have tried dalgona in the past know that the rules are more strict, such as banning licking or removing it with their hands without a needle (like Ali did), but in the drama, it was a rather generous rule that allows them to do whatever they do.
줄다리기
<tug-of-war>
<tug-of-war>, which was fought against during the school sports day It's a traditional folk game that was held on the fifteenth of lunar January. Did you know that tug-of-war was an official Olympic event from 1900 to 1920?
The tug-of-war, which is divided into two sides, is expressed as <tug-of-war> in Squid Game, in which the side that pulls the thick strings to each other wins. In tug-of-war, "tug" means "pull hard", but how about remembering that the English expression of tug-of-war is a game of tug-of-war that pulls strings with the mind of war?
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In the previous two games, all players can pass if they do well, but from this game, they will have to kill their opponents openly. It is not clear what would have happened if the game was not won within the time limit because all the matches shown were won, but considering the end of other games or the deployment of armed personnel, both teams are likely to have been shot. Anyway, it is more difficult to take a long time due to the nature of the tug-of-war. In fact, it is highly likely that there was no time limit itself, given that there was no stopwatch that showed the time limit unlike other games. Since the tug-of-war is a structure in which one side is continuously pulled from both sides and one side is dragged, it is impossible to continue to exert power, so there is no possibility that it will not take more than a minute and there will be no match at all. Despite the fall, there were some participants who did not die and remained breathless thanks to the participants who became cushions. Naturally, there is no chance of saving, and participants with breath were used to remove organs.
It is the first team game, and people who have not interacted before begin to bond and influence each other after this game. It was right after the game that the atmosphere was the best among the participants. Immediately after the dalgona picking, Ki-hoon's team got together and started to get close to each other. After the tug-of-war, Sang-woo and Ali became brothers by standing on a night watch, and Ki-hoon and Sae-byeok gradually built trust and became close to Il-nam. After the team competition, which survives in cooperation, the group has the advantage of building some trust and the disadvantage of excluding women and the elderly when teaming up for the team competition again, which makes the next game even more vicious.
Here, you can see the precision of the game design, and the tug-of-war game is the first and only team competition. In the first and second extra games after which survival depends on the individual's competence, the third game begins with the participants realizing that they can kill each other if necessary, and the participants don't seem to be conscious of killing themselves. As mentioned earlier, the trust barely accumulated in the process is destroyed in the fourth game, and participants will hurt others without hesitation in the fifth game to survive.
구슬놀이
<marbles game>
There are many ways to play with <marbles game>. You can put the beads on the ground and guess whether the number of beads in your hand is even or odd.
In Squid Game, there are many ways to play marbles according to the rules that the person who has 10 marbles wins. The 10 ball collection game is called <marbles game> or <marbles>.
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This is the time when the bond between the participants disappears. Before giving accurate game information, participants were ordered to form a team of two, making them misjudge as if it were a team match like the last tug-of-war, but since it was a duel for their lives, it was teased by inequality of information between organizers and participants. In the tug-of-war, "This game is a team game. Participants should divide into teams of 10 people.", The marbles say, "This game is played in pairs. Find someone who wants to play with you and shake hands with each other with the consent of the two, and you're paired." In the tug-of-war, it was specified to divide the team/team, and in the marbles, it was played in groups of two, but it was not a tag match or a team match in which a team of two was formed. In other words, it gave a kind of confusion with vague words. In the previous game, the tug-of-war, the characters who became close and cooperated with each other betrayed each other again, turning into a relationship where they distrust each other, and this is the intention of the organizer itself.
징검다리 건너기
<the glass tile game> or <the stepping stone>
<the glass tile game>, which was round 5, is not a game that Korean children play.
In the squid game, a total of 18 rows of bridges, consisting of two compartments, one tempered glass and one regular glass placed randomly on each horizontal line, were played in 16 minutes. Tempered glass is fine even when two people climb up, but regular glass breaks immediately when only one person climbs up. If the gap between the glass is quite wide and your motor nerves are not good, you may not be able to move on to the next compartment and just fall and die. Also, the background is decorated like a circus because VIPs are watching. It reminds me of the game Lemmings from the time of Doss.
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Unlike other games that can survive through individual abilities, skills, and various expedients, it is also a game that is criticized for rules because luck is just a decision unless you have learned glass industry skills properly. For participants who receive the first order, the possibility of survival is already minimal, so persuading the previous number participants who are in the same position to hold the game suspension vote again could be a strategy. In this game, the starting player is used like a throwaway and dies, and the probability of passing is less than half theoretically and practically. If more than half of the participants agree, it is realistic to give up the game with the support of the majority, so the game before crossing the stepping stone is a game that is quite difficult to proceed because there is no chance for the first number to survive.
오징어 게임
<squid game>
A game in which a striker and a defender use a squid-shaped plate drawn on the soil.
<squid game>, which is also the title of the drama, may be unfamiliar to children these days, but it is a game in the memory that many children enjoyed with their local friends two to 30 years ago. After drawing a head (O), a body (□), and a tail (◁) on the floor, the striker who was gathered on the tail safely runs through the defender and shouts "squid!" to win. Squid game is called <squid game> in English. It's a combination of "squid" and "game", so you'll remember it easily. If you want to explain this game in English to a friend, why don't you explain it like this?
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As it is the final game, the survivors are dressed in tuxedos and served a rich dinner before the game begins, and after the meal, the knife is left on the table. In fact, it implied that it was a weapon to be used in the next game, and by giving weapons back to participants who had already experienced thinning, they maintained a state of tension that they could be attacked during the break. Ahead of the main game, the remaining two will play the game as Sae-byeok was killed by Sang-woo as part of another thinning during the break.
The game is played on the playground where the first game was played, but robots and centric guns do not work. Ki-hoon, who won the coin toss, chose the attack, and Sang-woo naturally took charge of defense. Ki-hoon, who started with a blonde hair, sprayed Sang-woo with the sand of the playground that he had collected in advance before the game began, allowing him to use his two feet through the bridge. However, because they both know the rules of the squid game, they eventually changed to fighting each other, and after a fierce physical fight, Sang-woo tries to put a knife into Ki-hoon, but Ki-hoon reaches out his left hand to prevent Sang-woo's attack. Later, Ki-hoon succeeded in counterattacking and made Sang-woo in a state of inaction, and then went toward the squid's head, but suddenly changed his mind and suggested Sang-woo to give up the game together and survive. He exercised his right to save the loser in return for giving up 45.6 billion won. However, when Sang-woo, who refused to do so, committed suicide, the frontman considers Sang-woo to have been automatically eliminated because the loser did not agree to the end of the game and appoint Ki-hoon as the winner, and Ki-hoon returns to reality after receiving a card of 45.6 billion won.
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