Squid Game: 12 Hidden Details You Definitely Missed
10. The Workers Outfits
Revealed by director Hwang Dong-hyuk and art director Chae Kyoung-sun are some of the thoughts behind designing the series, which is one of the most visually interesting and memorable series Netflix has released.
In a video where they react to scenes from the series, Chae Kyoung-sun mentions how the director originally envisioned the guards as wearing boyscout outfits, but they eventually scrapped the idea for something that provided more anonymity and less individuality. The final outfits of the workers were designed to look like ants with no discernible individual features, and the colour pink was used since it was a colour often associated with fairy tales. In contrast, the green tracksuits of the players (based on green outfits from the Saemaul Undong movement and tracksuits worn by children in the 1970s) are being watched over and overtaken by the pink coloured guards.
The symbols on their helmets also represent their roles: circles for workers, triangles for armed soldiers, while squares for managers - symbols seen making up the drawing for the titular Squid Game, as well as the show's title, where the circle, triangle and square become part of the letters OJM - the series' Korean name, "Ojingeo Geim".