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- Il-nam explains that he and his rich friends created the games as a form of entertainment. Usually, Il-nam would have been a spectator, mingling with the VIPs and betting on the players, but due to the fact that he was dying, he decided to play the game himself for one last bit of fun before passed away.
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- He Is Also Known as Player 001
- He Wasn’T Targeted in Red Light, Green Light
- He Chooses The Star Shape in The Sugar Honeycomb Game
- He Stops The Fighting in The Dormitory Room
- His Tug of War Strategy Was Perfect
- His Neighborhood Was Perfectly Recreated in The Marble Game
- He Has No Player File
- He Smiles Throughout The Death Games
- His Name Literally Translates to “First Man”
Il-nam’s numeric designation means that he was the first player chosen for the game. While this fact is taken for granted at the start of Squid Game, it’s slowly revealed throughout the series that the other 455 players are around the ages of 20 to 40. The fact that Il-nam is the first chosen player, despite being decades older than everyone else, ...
In the first game of red light, green light, the robot designed to detect flinching Squid Game players didn’t target Il-nam at all. While everyone else’s Squid Game tracksuit had a green overlay, Il-nam and the player near him didn’t have one at all. This could indicate that the robot was programmed to spare Il-nam, which also affected those near h...
The star shape is one of the easiest shapes to carve out of the honeycomb treat using a needle, and Il-nam chose this shape for himself. While the triangle shape is arguably easier to carve out, the star has even shorter lines and requires even less skill. Despite being old and slow, Il-nam easily carves out the star without using any tricks or spe...
When fighting breaks out in the dormitory room, every player was in danger and powerless to stop the fighting. But when Il-nam asks organizers to interfere, Squid Game workers and guardsare immediately sent in by the Front Man to take back control of the room. While letting the fighting continue would be good for the games, Front Man had to interfe...
This is perhaps the most glaring clue that Il-nam is not as helpless as he seems. As revealed by Il-nam’s strategy for winning against a much stronger team, he is practically a master of tug of war. While Il-nam’s excuse of having played the game frequently as a child is believable, this actually reveals the extent to which he prepared for taking p...
How Il-nam described the neighborhood setting for the marble game was dismissed by many as the mere ramblings of an old man suffering from dementia. But as Squid Game’s ending reveals, the setting was an accurate recreation of Il-nam’s old home. This could have been the Front Man’s way of making the marble game even more exciting for the founder of...
This clue rushes by so quickly that very few viewers actually caught it. During episode 5 of Squid Game, police officer Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon) infiltrates the Front Man’s inner sanctum and finds files on all the previous and current players. The massive archive of comprehensive files goes back decades, chronicling every single of one those who w...
Il-nam’s wide smile throughout the different death games the players are forced to play is reflective of his outlook on life, as he explained to Gi-hun. But during a second viewing of Squid Game, this smile takes on a more sinister context. Unlike every other player who is risking their life for the chance to win Squid Game’s 45.6 billion Korean wo...
The Korean character “일” or “Il” can mean day, work, or first. Meanwhile, the second character “남자” or “nam” can be translated to boy or man. This means that Il-nam’s name actually translates to “first man.” While this could refer to how Il-nam is also known as Player 001, it could also just as easily refer to the Saw-like twist in the ending, in w...
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Oct 14, 2021 · Il-nam confirms that is his real name, and that he has a tumor, which has been growing. A stranger almost helps the homeless man, but does not. Il-nam asks after Gi-hun's unspent winnings...
Sep 19, 2021 · Gi-hun shared a special bond with player number 1, Il-nam (Oh Young-soo). He thought he lost the old man with a tumor in the Fourth Game when Il-nam sacrificed his life to save Gi-hun. However, he didn’t know at the moment that Il-nam was the host and the mastermind of the game.
Sep 29, 2021 · Facing a glass wall overlooking a homeless man passed out on the street below, Il-nam reveals the shocking truth that he orchestrated the deadly survival competition that killed...
Oct 15, 2021 · Gi-hun is horrified – this means that despite the fact that Il-nam is dead, the game is getting ready to begin again. Gi-hun steals the business card from the bystander and tells him not to...
Sep 22, 2021 · What Happened With Il-nam? Surprise! Oh Il-nam lived. The sweet old man with the brain tumor that seemed to die during the marble game round actually lived. Why? Because he was never actually...
