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- Lee Jung-jae plays Seong Gi-hun. Who is Seong Gi-hun? Seong Gi-hun is a divorced gambling addict whose financial woes are getting in the way of gaining custody of his daughter.
- Park Hae-soo plays Cho Sang-woo. Who is Cho Sang-woo? Cho Sang-woo grew up poor alongside Seong Gi-hun. A gifted student, Cho Sang-woo eventually graduates from Seoul National University and becomes the head of an investment team.
- HoYeon Jung plays Kang Sae-byeok. Who is Kang Sae-byeok? A North Korean defector, the resourceful Kang Sae-byeok joins the game in a bid to secure the money she needs to get the rest of her family out of North Korea and help her little brother, who is in an orphanage in Seoul.
- Anupam Tripathi plays Abdul Ali. Who is Abdul Ali? He is a migrant worker hailing from Pakistan who loses several fingers during an accident in the factory where he works.
Actress: Squid Game. South Korean model-turned-actor Hoyeon received international recognition and critical acclaim after the global success of the Netflix original series, Squid Game, in which she played Kan Sae-byeok, also known as Player 067.
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- Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun (456) A man down on his luck, Gi-hun is a gambling addict who works as a chauffeur and lives with his elderly mother. He enters the game with the hope of making enough money to keep his 10-year-old daughter from moving to America with her mom and stepdad.
- Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo (218) Sang-woo, Gi-hun's childhood friend, is a neighborhood legend for attending South Korea's top university. The investment banker later stole money from his clients and lost it in the stock market, and he needs to win the game to avoid arrest and keep his mother's house and business.
- Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok (067) Sae-byeok is a North Korean defector who works as a pickpocket while her younger brother lives in an orphanage. She needs enough money to get her mother out of the North, and to buy a house for her family.
- Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho. Cop Jun-ho finds a game card while searching his missing brother's apartment. He then sneaks his way into the game as a guard to take down the operation and find his brother.
- She's one of Korea's top models. Jung was born in Seoul, South Korea, in June 1994, and started modeling at age 16. In 2013, she was the runner-up on Season 4 of the reality show Korea's Next Top Model.
- Squid Game is her first-ever acting role. In an interview with W Korea, translated by NME, Jung revealed that she was at New York Fashion Week when she was asked to send in a video audition for Squid Game.
- She says that she's very similar to Kang Sae-byeok. Jung also told W Korea how she prepared for her Squid Game role, a refugee from North Korea. "I watched a lot of documentaries about North Korean defectors.
- She's good friends with Jennie from BLACKPINK. Though we don't know when they met, Jung and Jennie often support each other and share goofy selfies on social media.
Jung made her acting debut in 2021, starring in the first season of the Netflix series Squid Game as Kang Sae-byeok, which brought her worldwide attention and critical acclaim as the series' breakout star.
Oct 6, 2021 · If you can’t get enough of him on Squid Game, you’ll see him again soon: he will play Berlin in the Korean version of the hit series Money Heist (La Casa de Papel). Kang Sae-byeok...
Oct 4, 2021 · On "Squid Game," Kang Sae-byeok is played by Jung Ho-yeon, a young woman whose career in the entertainment industry began long before her star-making turn on the hit Netflix show.
