Wiki:
Squid Game is a survival drama tv series similarly named Korean children’s game where 456 players participate in a contest where you can win ₩45.6 billion, but if you lose, it’s the death penalty. The players are forced to wear green tracksuits and are constantly monitored by masked guards in pink jumpsuits, with the games being overseen by the Front Man, who wears a black mask and wears a black outfit.
Cast:
- Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun a divorced chauffeur and a gambling addict.
- Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo the head of an investment team at a securities company.
- Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho a police officer who sneaks into the Game as a guard to find his missing brother.
- Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok a North Korean defector.
- O Yeong-su as Oh Il-nam an elderly man with a brain tumor who prefers playing the Game as opposed to waiting to die in the outside world.
- Heo Sung-tae as Jang Deok-su a gangster who enters the Game to settle his massive gambling debts.
- Anupam Tripathi as Abdul Ali a migrant worker from Pakistan.
- Kim Joo-ryoung as Han Mi-nyeo a loud and manipulative woman who claims to be a poor single mother.
Creator, Writer and Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk
Country of origin: South Korea
Original language: Korean
No. of seasons: 1
No. of episodes: 9
Original network: Netflix
Original release: September 17, 2021
