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THE ARENA WAS NEVER A REAL ROOM. Every set was built inside a soundstage. But the ddakji scene was shot at this station — and the sign overhead is the one you saw. Seven places you can actually stand in.
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The doll, the glass bridge, the dalgona tables — all built here. Production designer Chae Kyoung-sun says the team rented three to four studios and spent about two months building before filming started. Korea's largest studio, opened 2017. **It is a working facility, not a tour** — you can walk the public park around it and nothing more.
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Gi-hun and Oh Il-nam's last conversation. Seoul's financial district on an island in the Han River. The red-striped Parc.1 towers and the IFC cluster are the same skyline in that sequence — and the riverside park is a normal place to walk.
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Already on your itinerary. Season 1's early outdoor and forest sequences were shot in the big wooded park in the middle of Seoul — the one N Seoul Tower sits on top of. If the tower is already on your list, this location costs you no detour at all.
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Where the Salesman bought his danpatppang. Season 2 opens with the recruiter buying red-bean bread before his coin-toss challenge, and it was shot in this park in central Seoul — a short walk from Jonggak, in the middle of everything else you were going to see anyway.
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The one you cross without noticing. Season 2's chase runs across this Han River bridge. It is not a destination in itself — it is the kind of place you photograph from the riverside path on the way to somewhere else, which is exactly how it appears in the show.
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One more stop — and one you cannot make. Season 2's workplace scenes were shot around Seoul Grand Park, reachable on Line 4. The island, though: **Seongapdo is real, has about four residents, and has no public ferry.** Nobody is visiting it. Full route and transit list at epickor.comCard 1 / 7
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THE ARENA WAS NEVER A REAL ROOM
Every set was built inside a soundstage. But the ddakji scene was shot at this station — and the sign overhead is the one you saw. Seven places you can actually stand in.
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