Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok (강새벽, Korean pronunciation:, 067), a North Korean defector.Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho (황준호, Korean pronunciation: ), a police officer who sneaks into the game as a guard to find his missing brother.He is wanted by the police for stealing money from his clients, and racking up massive debts from bad investments. He was a junior classmate to Gi-hun, and studied at Seoul National University.
Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo (조상우, Korean pronunciation:, 218), the former head of an investment team at a securities company.He participates in the game to settle his many debts, and to prove himself financially stable enough to have custody of his daughter, who is to leave for the United States with her mother and stepfather. He lives with his mother and struggles to support his daughter financially. Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun (성기훈, ( listen), 456), a divorced chauffeur and gambling addict.Numbers in parentheses denote the character's assigned number in the Squid Game. Cast and characters Main cast Īctors: (top) Lee Jung-jae (Seong Gi-hun, Player 456), Park Hae-soo (Cho Sang-woo, Player 218) (bottom) Wi Ha-joon (Hwang Jun-ho), and Jung Ho-yeon (Kang Sae-byeok, Player 067) Gi-hun allies with other players, including his childhood friend Cho Sang-woo, to try to survive the physical and psychological twists of the games. The players soon discover that losing a game results in their death, with each death adding ₩100 million to the potential ₩45.6 billion grand prize. The players are made to wear green tracksuits and are kept under watch at all times by masked guards in pink jumpsuits, with the games overseen by the Front Man, who wears a black mask and black uniform. Accepting the offer, he is taken to an unknown location where he finds himself among 456 players who are all deeply in debt.
Seong Gi-hun, a divorced and indebted chauffeur, is invited to play a series of children's games for a chance at a large cash prize.
The title of the series draws from a similarly named Korean children's game. The series revolves around a contest where 456 players in deep financial debt put their lives at risk to play a series of children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize. Its cast includes Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, Jung Ho-yeon, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, and Kim Joo-ryoung. Squid Game ( Korean: 오징어 게임 RR: Ojing-eo Geim) is a South Korean survival drama television series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix.