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Squid Game (Korean: 오징어 게임; RR: Ojing-eo Geim) is a South Korean survival drama series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix.The series revolves around a secret contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize (100 million per person killed).
Only three players make it across the bridge: Gi-hun, his childhood friend Sang-woo, and Kang Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon). Within four weeks of its release, season one had racked up 1.65 billion ...
He picks up Sae-byeok's brother, Kang Cheol, and takes him — and a suitcase full of money — to live with Sang-woo's mother. Gi-hun almost leaves Korea but changes his mind.
Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok (강새벽, Korean pronunciation: [kaŋsɛbjʌk̚]), [18] (067) a North Korean defector from North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. [19] She enters the game to pay for a broker who can rescue her parents across the border, and to buy a house for her reunited family. (season 1; guest, season 2)
Gi-Hun ends up forming an alliance with his friend Cho Sang-Woo, along with Kang Sae-Byeok to try to survive. At the end, Gi-Hun, Sae-Byeok, and Sang-Woo are the only ones left.
As finalists, Gi-hun, Sang-woo, and Sae-byeok are given formal outfits. Sae-byeok hides a severe stab wound from the glass bridge explosion. After dinner, each player is left with a steak knife. Realizing Sang-woo will do anything to win, Gi-hun suggests an alliance with Sae-byeok to oppose him. Sae-byeok, however, instead begs Gi-hun to ...
She was then asked by director Hwang Dong-hyuk to audition again in person in South Korea, where she was given the part immediately. [27] She studied for the role of Sae-byeok by practicing her character's Hamgyŏng dialect with real North Korean defectors, watching documentaries about North Korean defectors, and learning martial arts. She also ...
Esther Kang. December 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM ... Hwang Dong-hyuk and 'Squid Game' season 1 still. ... Gi-hun borrows from and the North Korean defectee broker who Sae-byeok [Jung Ho-yeon] seeks out ...