Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk on the show's on-set gun safety: "I have never seen a real bullet"

Variety

While offering his condolences over the Rust movie tragedy, Hwang said something like that wouldn't have happened in Korea "we’re not really a gun-owning country." “We of course have a prop master, but also in Korea, we’re not really a gun-owning country, so only the police can have and own a gun,” he told Variety. “Because of that, bullets are not really easily as distributed as they are maybe here, so there’s a very low, low possibility of any safety issues happening on set.” In fact, he said, “in my life, I have never seen a real bullet. I have only seen them in the movies."

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