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A fresh start, really? Use your head. What would we do if one of us gets killed in the game tomorrow? Honey, I know. If I were the one to go, you'd do fine without me. But if anything were to... to happen to you, I don't... Even if I did make it out, I'd have nothing to live for anymore.
~ Jang Geum-ja to her son.

Jang Geum-ja (장금자 Jang Geum-ja?), also known as Player 149, is a major character in the Netflix series Squid Game season 2. She is the elderly mother of Park Yong-sik who participated in the Squid Game to pay off her son's debts.

Geum-ja is portrayed by Kang Ae-shim.

Backstory[]

Born sometime around the 1940s, Jang Geum-ja survived the Korean War during her childhood. She got married to an unnamed man and had a son named Park Yong-sik. Her marriage was an unfaithful one, however, as her husband had a steady extramarital affair.

Over the years, Geum-ja helped over a dozen pregnant women deliver their babies in her local neighborhood of Bongcheon-dong. Her son Yong-sik continued to live at home with her as an adult and racked up a significant amount of debt due to his gambling habit. Her husband died at some point before October 2024.

A committed mother, Geum-ja joined the Squid Games in hopes of winning enough money to pay off her son Yong-sik's gambling debt.

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Players
33rd Squid Game
Seong Gi-hun | Cho Sang-woo | Kang Sae-byeok | Ali Abdul | Han Mi-nyeo | Ji-yeong
36th Squid Game
Team X (Seong Gi-hun | Park Jung-bae | Kang Dae-ho | Cho Hyun-ju | Jang Geum-ja | Park Yong-sik | Lee Myung-gi | Kim Jun-hee | Park Gyeong-seok | Se-mi)

Others
Hwang Jun-ho | Choi Woo-seok | Mercenaries (Kim)

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