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 shard of glass stuck in her side and a steak dinner she can’t not even appreciate. Tragic, indeed.

We don’t know much about his character. We know that she comes from the north with her brother – the only two remaining family members – and that her brother is estranged from her and lives in an orphanage. We know that she had some sort 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 of their lives.

Like everyone else, she will have to win all six games to receive the cash prize. The way she plays these games, however, tells us the most about her.

What is the significance of player 067?

As with the other characters in the series, Player 067 also appears to represent broader concepts of moral decision-making.

In general, Kang’s self-protection is opposed to the collaborative efforts of players like Seong Gi-hun (# 0456) who immediately seeks to form alliances. In contrast, Kang is reluctant to join teams and continually points out the flaws of collaboration: you can’t trust just one “teammate” – everyone will naturally betray you.

Besides being the current best dog on Netflix, Squid game is also kind of an introduction to game theory, although it’s an over-simplified, but (definitely) more fun version of anything you’ll get in a classroom.

Schoolyard games played to the death are generally of two kinds: cooperative and non-cooperative. Either it is in the players’ best interests to work together to solve a problem (like the bridge or the standoff), or they are made to lie, be wrong and betray each other for individual gain (the marbles).

Seong, whether out of heroic optimism or sheer idiocy, maintains that not only is collaboration a dominant strategy, but people won’t either. always act out of self-interest and, therefore, collaboration is always sort of possible.

Kang, alongside players like Jang Deok-su (the gangster, number 101), thinks this belief is crap. (Cho Sang-woo, # 0218 and Seong’s childhood friend, is often on the fence, but concludes towards the end games that selfishness is best.)

The differences are reinforced not only in character blocking – where Kang is often shown isolated and sometimes surrounded by hostile players – but also in their identifications; unlike Seong, Kang doesn’t even want other players to know his name. (She remains anonymous for several episodes.)

At the end of the series, however, Kang joined Seong, not only physically but also ideologically. After the most obvious uncooperative game (the marbles), where Kang sees her opponent playing the game cooperatively, sacrificing herself so that Kang can use the money to get back to her brother, she hits a sort of breaking point.

In the next game on the bridge, she begins to help Seong. She is injured at the end of the match.

The day before the final match, Seong walks up to help Kang. (Bending over to help injured, elderly, or dying people becomes something of a visual motif in the series; the penultimate scene involving a dying homeless person reinforces the message behind that motif.)

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When Seong prepares to assassinate Cho (# 0218), Kang stops him, reminding him that “it’s not you”. This is the first time in the series where Seong acts antagonistically towards another player, and the first time Kang has disowned such an act.

With his character arc now over, Kang dies.

What happens to player 067?

Although player 067 Kang Sae-byeok dies during matches, she is still able to help her brother. Seong locates him a year after the games, the fate of the orphanage and unites him with Cho’s mother, who has unknowingly lost her son.

Seong then vows to destroy the organization that forced the players to do what he and Kang determined was wrong: exploit their self-interest and treat the players like horses.

Who is HoYeon Jung?

Squid gameThe 067 player is the starring role of Korean model HoYeon Jung. In 2013, Jung appeared in season 4 of Korea’s next top model. Since then, she has walked for brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Marc Jacobs.

Although her character probably won’t return Squid game get a season 2, we hope to see it in other movie projects soon.

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