Season 2 of Squid Game generated another viral trend with Round and Round, the background song in the mingle game: let’s discover the original Korean song, its English lyrics, and its meaning.
Dunggulge, dunggulge. Dunggulge dunggulge. Yes, there is a song in Squid Game Season 2 that will never leave your head again. Social networks have gone crazy about it, especially after watching how Thanos, player 230, dances over it under the effect of his drugs. It’s the background song we hear during game 3, mingle: a big carousel spins in the center of the scene, the scared players try to team up in a rush, and a children’s song keeps playing in their ears. As in the spirit of the Netflix series, we are talking about kids’ music, nothing that’s supposed to be scary. But the contrast with the images is impressive.
Watch again the infamous carousel scene in Squid Game Season 2 below.
The song you hear from the minute 1:25, which became popular as the Mingle song from Squid Game, is a funny, traditional Korean children’s song. Its title can be translated into English into “Round and Round”: the song is intended to be a playful tune to sing while the kids spin around together. To have a feeling about how different the original song sounds, out of the deadly logic of the Netflix scene, you can watch the video below from a popular Korean kids’ channel:
In Squid Game 2, the song has been slowed down and turned into something slightly different, which sounds much creepier in our heads. Still, the melody is incredibly catchy, and all viewers found themselves trying to sing its lyrics after watching the series. Below you can find the Romanized lyrics, which will allow you to sing it while nobody hears you:
Dunggulge dunggulge, jjak
Binggeulbinggeul doragamyeo chum-eul chupsida
Sonppyeogeul chimyeonseo, jjak
Noraereul bureumyeo, jjak
Rallallalla jeulgeoupge chumchuja
Ringga ringga ringga, ringga ringga ring
Sone soneul japgo modu da hamkke
Jeulgeoupge ttwieo bopsida
Coming to its meaning, the Squid Game 2 Mingle song is simply an invite to dance, sing, and spin around together: you can find the English translation of the lyrics below, from Netflix’s English subtitles at the end of Episode 5.
Round and round
Let’s go around in circles and dance
We will clap our hands and sing
La la la la, let’s have fun dancing
Ring-a, ring-a, ring-a
Ring-a, ring-a-ring
Ring-a, ring-a, ring-a
Ring-a, ring-a-ring
We will go hand in hand
And have fun jumping around
You don’t need to know anything else: next time the Mingle Song from Squid Game 2 plays in your head, you will sing it right. Dunggulge dunggulge.
