Damn, I low-key feel cheated after learning why Squid Game’s Dae-ho was a god at Gonggi

Like many Netflix viewers, I watched Squid Game season two in disbelief as Kang Dae-ho expertly played Gonggi with ninja-like precision. In turn, this left me wondering how actor Kang Ha-neul managed to pull off such a fete.

Though the pressure ultimately got to him and sparked disastrous consequences at the end of season two, Dae-ho started off incredibly well as the front-runner in the six-legged pantheon. As you’ll remember, it included dajki – the envelope game The Recruiter uses – flying stones, spinning top, and Jegi, a game that involves kicking a toy. The final game was Gonggi, which Dae-ho expertly pulled off despite the confusing rules.

The rules are as follows:

• Round one: Drop the stones and then pick them up one by one while ensuring you chuck them in the air each time
• Round two: Drop the stones and then pick them up two at a time, again chucking them up in the air in between pickups
• Round three: After dropping the stones again, pick three up at once and then the remaining one in between throwing
• Round four: Throw one stone in the air and then immediately drop the other four. You need to catch the thrown stone before picking the others back up
• Round five: With all five stones in your hand, throw them up, flip your hand over, and then catch them on your fingers
• The last stage of the game is to throw the five stones up from your fingers and catch them in your palm.

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Like his fellow players, I was taken aback as he somehow flipped, dropped, and picked up the dice with shocking precision. Though I initially thought it was due to his training as a Marine, that too was called into question later in the season. My next thought was that actor Ha-neul had trained for months in an Eye Of The Tiger-style montage, but I was wrong about that too.

As it turns out, it wasn’t even Ha-neul playing the game.

Squid Game replaced Dae-ho with an expert for the Gonggi game

In a recently uploaded behind-the-scenes look at Squid Game season two, Kang Ha-neul revealed that director Hwang Dong-hyuk recruited an expert in Gonggi despite him slowly learning to play it.

“I was starting to get the hang of it, but the director invited an expert. He was unbelievably good, using both his hands to play throughout all five levels. We had that on camera and edited it like Dae-ho was playing,” he explained.

It’s a fun little tidbit of information, but I can’t help but feel duped. If anything it should be a testament to the high production value of the show because I didn’t notice a difference at all.

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