Seong Gi-hun, also known as “Player 456” is a South-Korean actor who became famous after playing the main protagonist in “Squid Game”.
He is the main protagonist of the South Korean Netflix drama show Squid Game. The show Squid GAme was a worldwide popular hit drama that shook the Drama industry.
Seong Gi-hun’s Life
Seong Gi hun was addicted to gambling, Gi-hun had faced crippling debt from loan sharks for many years before participating in, and ultimately winning, the 33rd Squid Game in 2020.
Squid Game Story
In this story, Gi-hun was born in Ssangmun-dong. Cho Sang-woo was his childhood best friend of Gi-hun. Similarly, he worked as a Dragon Motors employee for sixteen years. Due to the owner’s inability to pay his employees, he was laid off in 2011.
In the same way, Gi-hun worked several odd jobs to support himself. Some years back, he also owned a fried chicken restaurant and a snack bar, both of which failed.
Gi-hun also had a five-year career as a chauffeur. In 2009, Gi-hun got married and had a daughter in 2011. Her wife left him because of his weak financial condition.
But her custody was granted to his wife after their divorce in 2017. Gi-hun was living with his mother and had developed an addiction to horse race betting in 2020, which resulted in him being in debt to a group of loan sharks who threatened him with physical violence if he didn’t pay up.
Eventually, Gi-hun even found out from his mother that he has only 1 year left to be in contact with her daughter. After that, her daughter would be moving to the United States with her mother and stepfather.
After playing ddakji with the salesman, Gi-hun became aware of the Squid Game when a salesman informed him about it.
However, he accepted the offer to join the Squid Game with the hopes of winning a large amount of money in order to pay back his large debts, his mother’s hospital bills, gain back custody of his daughter, and secure a good life for him and his family.
So when he went to play the game. In the first game, Gi-hun was reunited with Cho Sang-woo(his best friend) and a girl who pickpocketed him, Kang Sae-book. Seong was saved during the game’s climax by Ali Abdul(an Indian man).
Gi-hun formed an association with the aforementioned players and Player 001 throughout the game, and frequently showed sympathy towards them.
Likewise, the games increased in their brutality and the competitors were becoming more depressed. At first, his intention was to win the gift money but when the time, he only wanted to be survived and return back safely.
Gi-hun wins the sixth and final game following Sang-woo’s suicide. After getting the prize money, he returned back to Seoul with a bank card to access the prize money. Sadly, when he returned home to tell his mother he could afford her treatment, he found that she had died.
After a year Gi-hun was still depressed and hadn’t touched any of the prize money. He lived a simple life and he was one of the people who hold a huge amount of money in his bank account.
Gi-hun received an invitation card from his gganbu. He feels disgusted when he finds that Oh Il-Nam, the old man Gi-hun had befriended, had created the game to entertain bored ultra-rich people like himself.
After the two made one last bet which Gi-hun won, Il-Nam died shortly after. Gi-hun retrieved Sae-book’s younger brother Kang Cheol and entrusted him to Sang-woo’s mother, giving them a share of the prize money.
Later, Gi-hun traveled to the airport to reconnect with his daughter in Los Angeles, he saw the same salesman playing ddakji with another desperate person in debt. When the salesman sees him, he ran away after seeing Gi-hun.
Meanwhile, Gi-hun took the person’s invitation card and called the number before boarding his plane, demanding to know who is running the games.
Then he went against the Front Man’s suggestion of getting on the plane. Gi-hun walked away from the airport, likely to fight back against the game’s organizers. This is how the story ends.
What happens after this?
The story ends in a very suspicious way. Everyone is eager to know what happens next. We are curious to know what will be in the next part of Squid Game. Oh-II-Nam, who started this game has already died then who is starting this game again.
Gi-hun missed his chance to meet his daughter to find the person who is starting this game again. Gi-hun who used to run after money learned a lesson that money is not everything.
He lost his mother when he went to play the game. Gi-hun didn’t use any money that he won from the game. It was updated that the shooting of Squid Game 2 is in process. The team is working hard for the next part.