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|fullname = Kang Sae-byeok (강새벽) |
|fullname = Kang Sae-byeok (강새벽) |
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|alias = Player 067<br> |
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| − | Pickpocket <small>(by [[Seong Gi-hun]])</small> |
+ | Pickpocket <small>(by [[Seong Gi-hun]])</small><br> |
| + | Bitch <small>(by [[w:c:villains:Jang Deok-su|Jang Deok-su]])</small> |
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|goals = Buy a house, so she can get her brother out of the orphanage <small>(indirectly succeeded)</small>.<br> |
|goals = Buy a house, so she can get her brother out of the orphanage <small>(indirectly succeeded)</small>.<br> |
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Get her mother out of North Korea.<br> |
Get her mother out of North Korea.<br> |
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Survive and win the Squid Game <small>(both failed)</small>. |
Survive and win the Squid Game <small>(both failed)</small>. |
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| − | |hobby = Taking care of her brother. |
+ | |hobby = Taking care of her brother.<br> |
| + | Pickpocketing. |
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|family = Kang Cheol (younger brother)<br> |
|family = Kang Cheol (younger brother)<br> |
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Unnamed mother<br> |
Unnamed mother<br> |
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|enemies = [[w:c:villains:Jang Deok-su|Jang Deok-su]] †<br> |
|enemies = [[w:c:villains:Jang Deok-su|Jang Deok-su]] †<br> |
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[[w:c:villains:Player 278|Player 278]] †<br> |
[[w:c:villains:Player 278|Player 278]] †<br> |
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+ | [[w:c:villains:Player 040|Player 040]] †<br> |
| − | Player 303 †<br> |
+ | [[w:c:villains:Player 303|Player 303]] †<br> |
[[w:c:villains:Cho Sang-woo|Cho Sang-woo]] † (killer) |
[[w:c:villains:Cho Sang-woo|Cho Sang-woo]] † (killer) |
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{{Quote|I want to go home.|Sae-byeok's dying words to Gi-hun.}} |
{{Quote|I want to go home.|Sae-byeok's dying words to Gi-hun.}} |
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| − | '''Kang Sae-byeok''' ( |
+ | '''Kang Sae-byeok''' (Korean: '''강새벽''') is the tritagonist of the first season of the South Korean Netflix drama show ''Squid Game''. She is a North Korean defector that joined the Squid Game to gain money to get her brother out of the orphanage and her mother out of North Korea. |
She was portrayed by model {{w|HoYeon Jung}} in her acting debut. |
She was portrayed by model {{w|HoYeon Jung}} in her acting debut. |
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+ | ==Personality== |
| + | {{Quote|During the fight last night, do you know how the man in front of me died? Someone he thought was on his side broke his neck. Do you all trust me? I don't trust any of you.|Kang Sae-byeok to the other members of her team.}} |
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| − | ===Background=== |
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| − | When Sae-byeok was still a child, there was a plague going through her town which killed her grandparents and her older brother. She saw soldiers carrying their corpses to a pile and lit it on fire, burning them together. |
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| + | Sae-byeok is very quiet and calm, never panicking even in stressful situations. She is also very reserved and prefers to work by herself. She is reluctant to interact with others and reveal things about herself, hesitating even to say her name to anyone without having a reason to do so. She also rarely lets it show any kind of emotion she is feeling, and is stoic most of the time. Sae-byeok states that she doesn't trust anyone, especially the people in the games, knowing that she can be betrayed by other players at any time. |
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| − | Eventually, Sae-byeok and her family decided to leave North Korea to start a better life in the South. While trying to swim across the border, Sae-byeok's father was shot and drowned. Her mother hid in China, but then was sent back to North Korea once the immigration agents found her. In the end, only Sae-byeok and her younger brother, Kang Cheol, managed to enter South Korea. |
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| + | She is protective over her family and determined to win the game to be able to reunite with her mother and younger brother in a new house. Sae-byeok risked herself to gather money to pay for a broker to take her mother out of North Korea and is even willing to die in the Squid Game to be able to reunite her family. She votes against the termination of the games and is disappointed when the players vote to stop them. She shows no signs of be willing to give up later, even after she is mortally wounded by glass in the fifth game. Instead, she entrusts her goal to [[Seong Gi-hun]], knowing that she doesn't have much time left before dying. |
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| − | In 2020, Sae-byeok's brother is in an orphanage, so Sae-byeok struggles to scratch a living as a pickpocket to gather enough money to buy a home and entry to get her mother out of North Korea. At some point, she worked with the gangster [[w:c:villains:Jang Deok-su|Jang Deok-su]] in order to survive. |
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| + | Because she is reserved, she is seen alone most of the time before the special game. She performs very well even without others' help, showing to be very intelligent and resourceful. She manages to figure out how to survive in the first game by hiding behind others and is successful in staying awake upon being taken to the island again, managing to smuggle her switchblade to use in the games. She also plans how to get information about the third game by entering in the air ducts. Later, after [[Cho Sang-woo]] tells her that he can guess the game, she deduces correctly that he figured out what the game is by observing him from afar and then follows his choice, resulting in her picking the easiest shape to cut out from her honeycomb. |
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| − | Sae-byeok is first seen in a gambling place, where [[Seong Gi-hun]] accidentally bumps into her while he is being chased by a gang that he owns money to. As he apologizes for knocking her down, she pickpockets the money he won gambling on a horse race. At some point, she was offered the chance to participate in the 33rd Squid Game and accepted it to help her family. |
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| + | Despite being often quiet, Sae-byeok is also blunt and not afraid to speak her mind when she decides to do so. She will speak honestly about her opinions of others and the situation, and rarely lies. She openly tells her team that she doesn't trust them or anyone in the game. She lets them know that she is aware that contestants will not choose to play with her during the Marbles game, because she is a woman. At the same time, she also admits she does not care about embarrassing herself to manage to get a partner. When [[Ji-yeong]] suggests them to share their stories before the eventual death of one of them, she is also honest and open about her past and objective in the game. |
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| − | After the players were taken to the island where the games happen, Sae-byeok reencounters the gangster [[w:c:villains:Jang Deok-su|Jang Deok-su]]. He accuses her of betraying him after he taught her and gave her a home, only for her to leave. Sae-byeok argues that he took more than he gave to her, and she didn't run away, she became independent. Deok-su beats her and tries to humiliated her in front of the others because she is from North Korea. Deok-su's attack is interrupted when Gi-hun recognizes Sae-byeok because of the scar she has on her neck and gets between them demanding the money she stole from him. Deok-su confronts Gi-hun because of this interruption, saying he is still not done with Sae-byeok. They stop, however, as the [[w:c:villains:Masked Men|masked men]] of the Squid Game arrive to welcome them and explain the rules of the competition. |
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| + | Her solitary and distrustful nature makes her not accept help or give others' help easily. During the period she is alone before the special game, she accepts [[Han Mi-nyeo]]'s help to get inside the air ducts, but is reluctant to tell her what she saw, even after stating she would do so to repay her help. Sae-byeok eventually does it because of Mi-nyeo's insistence. She later refuses to tell Sang-woo anything about the guards melting sugar, until she realizes that telling him can also work in her favor. When Gi-hun invites her to join his team as a way to protect herself from [[w:c:villains:Jang Deok-su|Jang Deok-su]]'s group, Sae-byeok replies that she does not trust anyone. Despite this, she does seek his team upon being pursued by Deok-su during the special game. As Ji-yeong decides to sacrifice herself for her in the Marbles game, Sae-byeok becomes visibly angry and tells the other girl to play again, before accepting her wish. Upon being mortally wounded by glass, Sae-byeok endures the pain alone and tries to stop the bleeding by herself, without telling anyone about her situation. When Gi-hun notices there is something wrong with her, she tells him to worry about himself. |
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| − | Sae-byeok is seen listening the staff tell the players the rules and then signing the consent form with three clauses of the game. During the first game (Red Light, Green Light), Sae-byeok and the other players discover that the losers of a game are killed. Sae-byeok figures out she can hide behind other players to survive the first game without being detected by the doll. She hides behind Deok-su, using him as her shield and threats to push him, which terrifies the gangster. Her strategy works well and she crosses the finish line within the time limit of this game, being closely followed by Deok-su. |
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| + | Ultimately, Sae-byeok does form bonds during the competition. She befriends Ji-yeong, who also has a tragic past and a similar personality to her. Despite usually not showing emotions, when Ji-yeong reveals her intentions to sacrifice herself, Sae-byeok clearly shows anger and then sadness for the first time. She cries for her friend and is seen mourning her death after the Marbles game is over. Sae-byeok also recognizes that Gi-hun is a good person, making her willing to trust and help him. Sae-byeok eventually joins his team after his invitation, and later gives him a bottle of water for him to take care of [[w:c:villains:Oh Il-nam|Oh Il-nam]]. She also tells Gi-hun which glass he should step on when he is confused during the fifth game. As Gi-hun attempts to kill Sang-woo in his sleep, Sae-byeok stops him because she knows he is a kind-hearted person. In her final moments, she entrusts her little brother's care to him, knowing that Cheol will be in good care with her friend. |
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| − | Following the first game, most of the remaining players are scared after witnessing more than half them being killed and [[Cho Sang-woo]] reminds about the third clause of the consent form, which says that the players can vote and the games will be terminated if the majority agrees. However, before the vote, the staff announces the amount of prize money accumulated from the first game and they also reveal that the final prize will be ₩45.6. billion Sae-byeok is impressed by the great prize money accumulated inside the piggy bank from the first challenge. This makes her decide to vote yes to continue with the games. However, the majority votes to stop the games, which disappoints Sae-byeok. Because of this result, the staff announces that the games are interrupted until the majority decides to play again. |
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| − | Out of the games, the staff drops Sae-byeok with Gi-hun on the street. They are both tied, blindfolded and only wearing their underclothes. Sae-byeok takes off his blindfold and asks for his help to be untied. While she is dressing her clothes, Gi-hun asks for her help to be untied. She refuses, saying that Gi-hun will just demand the money she stole again. Gi-hun swears on his mother that he will forgive her about the money, but when Sae-byeok cuts the ties around his hands with her switchblade, he does exactly what she expected. She laughs at him clumsy jumping trying to get her with his tied feet, and then leaves him still tied and undressed on the street. |
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| − | She is later seen visiting her younger brother, Kang Cheol, in the orphanage. She notices her little brother is upset and sees that his face is hurt, so she asks if he got into a fight. He starts to cry, saying he doesn't want to stay in the orphanage. Cheol reminds Sae-byeok that she promised to bring their mother from North Korea and they would be living all together after a month. He adds that the other kids told him that his sister is lying and he will never leave the orphanage, because Sae-byeok abandoned him. Sae-byeok embraces her brother and assures him that is not true. She tells him that their family will be living together in the same house by the next year, and reminds him that she always keeps her promises. |
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| − | Afterwards, Sae-byeok visits a North Korea broker employer, who talks about the broker she paid to take her mother out of Korea. The man says that the broker took her money and fled, and she is not the only victim of a case like this. Because he claims it is very hard to track down a broker once they fled, he says that she will need to hire a new broker and star over. The employer tells her she will have to pay ₩40 million to start again, but Sae-byeok doubts the man. She throws his hot coffee at him and threats him with her switchblade, saying she believed him the last time and risked her life for the money which was lost. She says she will bring the money, but adds that if he tricks her again, she will cut open his throat. |
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| − | Sae-byeok later has another chance to rejoin the games when the majority decides to return. However, when the masked staff comes to take her and tries to use sleeping gas on her, she is prepared. Instead of being put to sleep like the other players, Sae-byeok holds her breath and is taken to the island while still awake, which allows her to smuggle her switchblade to use in the games. When the [[w:c:villains:Masked Workers|masked workers]] are taking off her clothes of the unconscious players to dress them in their Squid Game uniforms, she uses her pickpocket skills to hide the blade inside the pocket of one of them. Then, once she is dressed in the uniform, she recovers the blade from the worker's pocket and hides it under her sleeve without any of the masked men noticing. |
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| − | Back in the games, Sae-byeok reunies with Deok-su again. He offers an alliance, saying he will forget all that happened between them in past and asks her to join the team he is forming for the next games, and reminds her that they once worked together. Not trusting Deok-su, Sae-byeok recalls that others gangsters are hunting him down outside the games because of how traitorous he is. Deok-su tells Sae-byeok that even though she's tough, she won't survive playing alone. Sae-byeok responds that he should worry about himself. She tells the other members of his team not to ally with Deok-su, revealing that stole from other members of his gang. She explains that he stole from his own subordinates and later from his boss, which got him in trouble when he was caught and led him to join the Squid Game to pay his debts. She finishes saying that he is a revolutionary asshole, which infuriates Deok-su and he moves to attack her, making her discreetly draw her hidden blade. They are interrupted by [[Han Mi-nyeo]] who approaches Deok-su and asks to join his team. |
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| − | Noticing the air ducts on the ceiling of the game facility gives Sae-byeok an idea of how to try to discover something about the next game. After the curfew, Mi-nyeo makes a fuss, demanding that the guards outside the players' dorm let her go to the bathroom. When a [[w:c:villains:Masked Soldier|masked soldier]] finally decides to accompany Mi-nyeo to the bathroom, Sae-byeok takes this opportunity to execute her idea. She approaches Mi-nyeo and the soldier, saying she needs to go too. Mi-nyeo is annoyed to see that Sae-byeok is taking advantage of her effort after his scandal to be allowed to go. Sae-byeok ignores her off, making Mi-nyeo call her rude. |
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| − | In the bathroom, Sae-byeok startlers Mi-nyeo when she opens the door of her toilet holding her blade. Sae-byeok uses the blade to open and sir ducts and reveal to Mi-nyeo that she is going in to investigate them. She asks Mi-nyeo to distract the guards and promises to tell her if she finds out something. Mi-nyeo agrees and helps Sae-byeok get into the air ducts. Crawling inside the ducts, Sae-byeok follows a smell which leads her to the kitchen, where she sees the workers bellow her melting something in large pots. She is briefly startled when a rat climbs onto her shoulder, causing a worker to look up upon hearing a noise coming from the ducts. Despite this, Sae-byeok manages to go unnoticed and returns to the bathroom in time to help Mi-neyo with her act to distract the guards. When the soldier waiting for them decides that the two women are taking too long, so he goes inside the bathroom and opens the door of the toilet, he finds Mi-nyeo with her pants down and Sae-byeok beside her, pretending to help with her constipation. As Mi-nyeo accuses the soldier of sexual harrassment for not respecting her privacity and then leaves, Sae-byeok follows her. |
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| − | As they return to the dormitory, Mi-nyeo asks Sae-byeok what she saw. Sae-byeok replies she will tell her in the next day. In the morning, when Mi-nyeo questions her again, Sae-byeok tells her about the workers melting something in pots, and that it smelt like sugar. Mi-nyeo is not completely satisfied with Sae-byeok's answer and threats the girl in case she is hiding something, but she lets it go and leaves to eat breakfast. Sae-byeok receives a bread to eat but stares at it instead of eating it. Unknown to her, she is being watched from a far by Sang-woo. When the players are walking to the location of the next game, Sang-woo approaches Sae-byeok and asks her what she saw last night. He reveals that he overheard she talking with Mi-nyeo when they were walking into the dormitory. Sae-byeok sees no reason to tell him anything, so Sang-woo explains that the games in the competition are the ones he played when he was a child. He says that if she tells him what she saw, he might guess the next game easier than her who is a foreigner and is not familiar with these games. This convinces Sae-byeok, and she tells him about the workers melting sugar. |
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| − | The location of the second game is a playground, where the announcer says that the players should choose one of the shapes on the doors before the game. Keeping in mind what Sang-woo said about being able to guess the game, she watches him from a far. When Sang-woo chooses the triangle, she follows him, picking the same shape. The game is revealed to be Sugar Honeycombs, and her hunch that Sang-woo indeed guessed the game is proven to be correct, as he chose the easier shape to cut out from the honeycomb. This results in Sae-byeok being of the first players to complete the challenge within the time limit. She shows her triagle to a soldier and leaves the playground, even before Sang-woo finishes to cut out his own honeycomb. |
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| − | Having survived the lights-out riot and Tug-of-War, Sae-byeok eventually went to play Marbles with Player 240, Ji-yeong, which she eventually bonds with over dark backgrounds before playing with her. After sharing her dark past with Ji-yeong, the latter eventually reveals hers; after being molested by her religious father, and witnessing the death of her mother, she was arrested after killing her father herself, and has been in prison as a result. |
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| − | Ji-yeong had admitted that she did not know why she was invited into the games in the first place. They eventually played games after revealing their motives, but Ji-yeong falls short of her throw, admitting to Sae-byeok that she had no real motive or intention with the money when she wins, but allowed her to win so that she can win the money for her family. Emotionally distraught, Sae-byeok walks away when Ji-yeong is eliminated for her loss. |
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| − | Shaken, but still willing to win, Sae-byeok eventually participates Glass Bridge with the remaining 15 contestants. With the majority of them eliminated for falling into normal glass, Sae-byeok, Gi-hun and Sang-woo followed the last player, who was a seasoned glass worker. When the glass worker could not tell which one is normal and which one is tempered (thanks to the Front Man), Sang-woo impatiently throws him to the normal glass to his death, having cited repeatedly that they are running out of time. As a result, the trio survived before the timer expires, but Sae-byeok is gravely wounded by the game. |
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| − | For her status as a finalist, Sae-byeok is given formal clothing and fine dining as a reward, but not before she barely patches up her severe stab wound. Later on, Gi-hun notices she is not looking well and approaches her to talk. Gi-hun suggests that the two of them work together against Sang-woo in the last game. They have a conversation about their families, discovering that her younger brother and his daughter have the same age. Sae-byeok asks him to promise that if either of them manage to survive and win the game, they will use the prize to take care of each other's family. Gi-hun then finds out that Sae-byeok is bleeding profusely and runs for help. |
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| “ | I don't trust people. Especially the ones who ended up here. | „ |
| ~ Kang Sae-byeok. |
| “ | I need you to swear that you'll look after my little brother. | „ |
| ~ Sae-byeok to Seong Gi-hun. |
| “ | I want to go home. | „ |
| ~ Sae-byeok's dying words to Gi-hun. |
Kang Sae-byeok (Korean: 강새벽) is the tritagonist of the first season of the South Korean Netflix drama show Squid Game. She is a North Korean defector that joined the Squid Game to gain money to get her brother out of the orphanage and her mother out of North Korea.
She was portrayed by model HoYeon Jung in her acting debut.
Personality
| “ | During the fight last night, do you know how the man in front of me died? Someone he thought was on his side broke his neck. Do you all trust me? I don't trust any of you. | „ |
| ~ Kang Sae-byeok to the other members of her team. |
Sae-byeok is very quiet and calm, never panicking even in stressful situations. She is also very reserved and prefers to work by herself. She is reluctant to interact with others and reveal things about herself, hesitating even to say her name to anyone without having a reason to do so. She also rarely lets it show any kind of emotion she is feeling, and is stoic most of the time. Sae-byeok states that she doesn't trust anyone, especially the people in the games, knowing that she can be betrayed by other players at any time.
She is protective over her family and determined to win the game to be able to reunite with her mother and younger brother in a new house. Sae-byeok risked herself to gather money to pay for a broker to take her mother out of North Korea and is even willing to die in the Squid Game to be able to reunite her family. She votes against the termination of the games and is disappointed when the players vote to stop them. She shows no signs of be willing to give up later, even after she is mortally wounded by glass in the fifth game. Instead, she entrusts her goal to Seong Gi-hun, knowing that she doesn't have much time left before dying.
Because she is reserved, she is seen alone most of the time before the special game. She performs very well even without others' help, showing to be very intelligent and resourceful. She manages to figure out how to survive in the first game by hiding behind others and is successful in staying awake upon being taken to the island again, managing to smuggle her switchblade to use in the games. She also plans how to get information about the third game by entering in the air ducts. Later, after Cho Sang-woo tells her that he can guess the game, she deduces correctly that he figured out what the game is by observing him from afar and then follows his choice, resulting in her picking the easiest shape to cut out from her honeycomb.
Despite being often quiet, Sae-byeok is also blunt and not afraid to speak her mind when she decides to do so. She will speak honestly about her opinions of others and the situation, and rarely lies. She openly tells her team that she doesn't trust them or anyone in the game. She lets them know that she is aware that contestants will not choose to play with her during the Marbles game, because she is a woman. At the same time, she also admits she does not care about embarrassing herself to manage to get a partner. When Ji-yeong suggests them to share their stories before the eventual death of one of them, she is also honest and open about her past and objective in the game.
Her solitary and distrustful nature makes her not accept help or give others' help easily. During the period she is alone before the special game, she accepts Han Mi-nyeo's help to get inside the air ducts, but is reluctant to tell her what she saw, even after stating she would do so to repay her help. Sae-byeok eventually does it because of Mi-nyeo's insistence. She later refuses to tell Sang-woo anything about the guards melting sugar, until she realizes that telling him can also work in her favor. When Gi-hun invites her to join his team as a way to protect herself from Jang Deok-su's group, Sae-byeok replies that she does not trust anyone. Despite this, she does seek his team upon being pursued by Deok-su during the special game. As Ji-yeong decides to sacrifice herself for her in the Marbles game, Sae-byeok becomes visibly angry and tells the other girl to play again, before accepting her wish. Upon being mortally wounded by glass, Sae-byeok endures the pain alone and tries to stop the bleeding by herself, without telling anyone about her situation. When Gi-hun notices there is something wrong with her, she tells him to worry about himself.
Ultimately, Sae-byeok does form bonds during the competition. She befriends Ji-yeong, who also has a tragic past and a similar personality to her. Despite usually not showing emotions, when Ji-yeong reveals her intentions to sacrifice herself, Sae-byeok clearly shows anger and then sadness for the first time. She cries for her friend and is seen mourning her death after the Marbles game is over. Sae-byeok also recognizes that Gi-hun is a good person, making her willing to trust and help him. Sae-byeok eventually joins his team after his invitation, and later gives him a bottle of water for him to take care of Oh Il-nam. She also tells Gi-hun which glass he should step on when he is confused during the fifth game. As Gi-hun attempts to kill Sang-woo in his sleep, Sae-byeok stops him because she knows he is a kind-hearted person. In her final moments, she entrusts her little brother's care to him, knowing that Cheol will be in good care with her friend.
External Links
- Kang Sae-byeok on the Squid Game Wiki
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