The tragic hero of Netflix’s Korean battle-royale sensation Squid Game is North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok—player number 067 (played by HoYeon Jung)—whose redemption comes with a glass shard stuck in her side and a steak dinner she can’t even enjoy. Tragic, indeed.
We don’t know much about her character. We know she comes from the north with her brother—the only two remaining family members—and that her brother is separated from her and living in an orphanage. We know she had some kind of personal and/or professional relationship with gangster Jang Deok-su. And we know her motivation for playing the game: she wants to get her brother out of the orphanage and improve both their lives.
Like everyone else, she’ll need to win all six games to receive the prize money. How she plays these games, however, tells us most about her.
What's the significance of player 067?
As with other characters in the series, player 067 also seems to stand for larger concepts of moral decision-making.
In general, Kang’s self-protectiveness is set against the collaborative efforts of players like Seong Gi-hun (No. 0456) who immediately seeks to form alliances. In contrast, Kang is reluctant to join teams and continually points out the flaws in collaboration: you cannot trust a single “teammate”—everyone will naturally betray you.
Alongside its being the current top dog on Netflix, Squid Game is also something of an introduction to game theory—albeit an overly simplified, though (definitely) more fun version of whatever you’ll get in a classroom.
The schoolyard games played to the death are usually of two sorts: cooperative and non-cooperative. Either it’s in the players’ interests to work together to solve a problem (like the bridge or the tug-of-war), or they are incentivized to lie, cheat, and betray one another for individual gain (the marbles).
Seong, either through heroic optimism or sheer idiocy, maintains that not only is collaboration a dominant strategy, but people also won’t always act out of self-interest, and, therefore, collaboration is always somehow possible.
Kang—alongside players like Jang Deok-su (the gangster, number 101)—thinks this belief is crap. (Cho Sang-woo, No. 0218 and Seong’s childhood friend, is often on the fence, though concludes toward the final games that egoism is best.)
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The differences are enforced not just in the characters’ blocking—where Kang is often shown isolated and sometimes surrounded by hostile players—but also in their identifications; in contrast to Seong, Kang doesn’t even want other players to know her name. (She remains unnamed for several episodes.)
By the end of the series, however, Kang has come over to team Seong, not just physically but also ideologically. After the most obvious non-cooperative game (the marbles), where Kang witnesses her opponent play the game cooperatively, sacrificing herself so that Kang can use the money to return to her brother, she reaches a kind of breaking point.
During the next game on the bridge, she begins helping Seong. She is injured at the end of the game.
The night before the final game Seong approaches to help Kang . (Bending to aid injured, elderly, or dying persons becomes a kind of visual motif of the series; the penultimate scene involving a dying homeless man reinforces the message behind this motif.)
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When Seong moves to murder Cho (No. 0218), Kang stops him, reminding Seong that “this isn’t you.” It is the first time during the series where Seong acts antagonistically toward another player and the first time Kang disavows such an act.
Her character arc now complete, Kang dies.
What happens to player 067?
Though Kang Sae-byeok, player 067, dies during the games, she’s still able to help her brother. Seong locates him a year after the games, taking him out of the orphanage and uniting him with Cho’s mother—who has unknowingly lost her son.
Seong then vows to destroy the organization that had forced players to do what he and Kang determined to be wrong: exploit self-interest and treat players like horses.
Who is HoYeon Jung?
Squid Game’s player 067 is the first role for Korean fashion model HoYeon Jung. In 2013, Jung participated in season 4 of Korea’s Next Top Model. She has since runway walked for brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Marc Jacobs.
Though her character isn’t likely to return should Squid Game get a season 2, we hope to see her in more film projects soon.
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