Squid Game 3: Does New Jump Rope Song Kkomaya Hold Any Clues For Players? (Images credit: Netflix)
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game involves contestants playing ordinary children’s games to deadly effect in the Netflix series. When it returns on June 7, the third season will focus on fewer players and more bloody games as the show must cut them down to one final winner. After the trailer premiered earlier this week, fans got some more glimpses at what’s ahead for the final players. We spy a hide-and-seek game in the streets with the starry sky and a jump rope game involving the cherubic robot dolls Young-Hee and Cheol Su.
The trailer features the remaining contestants coming face-to-face with the robotic Young-Hee again. This time, she brings a friend, Cheol Su, who helps her hold the skipping rope for the players. What makes the game even more difficult is the narrow railway track-like plank they have to stand on. The rope’s speed goes from slow to fast, and if the red and green lights from the previous games return, it’s going to make life hell for the contestants.
In a new promo video for the show, Dong-hyuk jokingly said, “The Mingle Song was a big hit in Season 2, so I put this jump rope song as another attempt to make another hit song for Season 3.” Of course, the remixed song is based on a children’s song from South Korea called Kkomaya. It’s not clear what exact version the show will carry, but the versions of the jump rope song also contain instructions for the jumper on how to act.
Here’s a sample translation of what Kkomaya is saying in English: “Child, child, turn around; child, child, put your hands in the air; child, child, touch the ground; child, child, goodbye.” When taken in the context of the Squid Game, the instructions turn even more deadly. The players are in a life-and-death situation. On either side of the narrow track is a ravine where they will fall to their deaths.
In the third season, they have returned to the game after a failed coup, so we are guessing their stress levels are already higher. With the return of the killer dolls, the confusing instructions, and the red light and green light resurfacing, one can safely assume there are plenty who won’t make the cut. In the trailer, several of the players are jumping rope with bloody shoes. There is no full shot yet of the victims, but we will see the game unfold in horror when the show premieres at the end of the month. Until then, enjoy the new remixes of Kkomaya. By the time the show comes around, it might just be as popular as Mingle.
