Towns & cities

Daejeon

metropolitan city in South Korea

South Korea · 36.3500, 127.3850

Daejeon is recorded as a filming location for 8 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Daejeon, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 10 more.

1 production was filmed at 1 place inside Daejeon rather than at Daejeon itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“City scenes were filmed in Daejeon, while the island set pieces were filmed on Seongapdo located in Ongjin.”

Squid Game (2021–2025) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Daejeon

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Daejeon as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Daejeon

1 production shot at 1 place inside Daejeon, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Daejeon itself.

To the Beautiful You Mokwon University per Wikipedia 2012–

Landmarks & buildings

Mokwon University

South Korea

private university in Daejeon, South Korea

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Daejeon?

19 productions are recorded as filmed in Daejeon, 1 of them at places inside it, including Squid Game (2021–2025), Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013) and New World (2013). 10 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Daejeon?

Squid Game (2021–2025), covered by 110 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Daejeon?

Daejeon is in South Korea. Its coordinates are 36.3500, 127.3850.

What other filming locations are near Daejeon?

Mokwon University (5 km south-west), Nonsan (31 km south-west), Cheongju (33 km north) and Yeonmu (37 km south-west), all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by 대전광역시 동구, KOGL Type 1.