Loan sharks chase Gi-hun and his winnings vanish
Mid-call with his daughter, Gi-hun spots the debt collectors, bolts through the crowd, and finds his pocket emptied by a girl he bumped into.
Kang Sae-byeok's Best Moments
Every Squid Game moment featuring Kang Sae-byeok, in story order. Played by Jung Ho-yeon.
35 moments · 50 min · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 35
- 01
- 02
Deok-su corners the pickpocket and Gi-hun wants his money back
A gangster recognises a runaway from his crew, a North Korean girl with a scarred neck; Gi-hun recognises the thief who emptied his pocket.
- 03
Deok-su grabs the pickpocket as Gi-hun slips and is caught
A grudge resurfaces mid-game, a trembling player is told he will die if caught, and Gi-hun pleads for help as someone holds him up.
- 04
Gi-hun and the pickpocket wake up tied together
Dumped in the street, Gi-hun begs the pickpocket to untie him, swears on his mother to forget the money, then chases her anyway.
- 05
Sae-byeok visits her little brother at the orphanage
Cheol says the other kids told him he was lied to and abandoned; his big sister promises they will all live together next year.
- 06
Sae-byeok learns the broker ran off with her money
The broker's office says her family's escape must start over at 40 million won; she burns the man and threatens to rip his throat open.
- 07
Sae-byeok refuses Deok-su's offer and names his crime
Deok-su tries to pull the pickpocket back onto his crew; she exposes how he robbed his own boss and he explodes at her.
- 08
Mi-nyeo threatens to pee on the dorm floor
Locked in after curfew, Mi-nyeo screams at the masked guards until they escort her to the toilet, and Sae-byeok quietly tags along.
- 09
Sae-byeok strikes a deal in the bathroom
Sae-byeok spots the vent above the stalls and asks Mi-nyeo to buy her time in exchange for whatever she finds up there.
- 10
Mi-nyeo's toilet theatre covers Sae-byeok's climb
Mi-nyeo wails about constipation and missing toilet paper to stall the guard while Sae-byeok crawls through the ducts and watches the workers.
- 11
Sae-byeok's report: they were melting sugar
At breakfast Sae-byeok finally tells Mi-nyeo what she saw through the vent; Mi-nyeo threatens her eyes and then just craves sweets.
- 12
The giant playground and four shapes on the wall
Players enter an oversized playground and are told to pick circle, triangle, star or umbrella; Sae-byeok tells Deok-su the workers were heating sugar.
- 13
Sae-byeok says she trusts no one; Gi-hun tells her why she really doesn't
Gi-hun invites the pickpocket to shelter with his group tonight. She refuses on principle and he answers with a line about having nobody else.
- 14
Gi-hun defends Sae-byeok and Il-nam's cry stops the riot
Gi-hun faces down Deok-su to protect his teammate, then Il-nam climbs up and screams that everyone will die, and the masked soldiers finally intervene.
- 15
The team trades names and Il-nam cannot remember his
Gi-hun, Ali, Sang-woo and Sae-byeok introduce themselves properly; when the old man is asked, he stalls and Gi-hun covers for him.
- 16
Teams of ten: Sang-woo guesses the game and argues for strong men
The third game is announced as a team game and Gi-hun's group debates which playground game it could be and who to recruit in ten minutes.
- 17
Ji-yeong joins Sae-byeok and Mi-nyeo barges onto the weak team
Sae-byeok brings a girl instead of a man, the count stops at nine, and the rejected Mi-nyeo invites herself in as the tenth with a boast.
- 18
Il-nam teaches the team how to win Tug-of-War
Facing an all-male team, the old man lays out his childhood method: a strong leader, alternating sides, rope under the armpits, lean back ten seconds.
- 19
Three steps forward: Sang-woo's gamble on the rope
The team holds for ten seconds, starts losing anyway, and Sang-woo orders everyone to step towards the edge on a count of three.
- 20
Deok-su and Ji-yeong mock the praying pastor
Deok-su tells the pastor to thank the old man, not God; Ji-yeong offers a sarcastic prayer of her own; Sae-byeok tells everyone to shut up.
- 21
Planning the night: attack first or build a barricade
With lights-out coming, the pastor argues for striking a weak team first, Sae-byeok says she trusts no one, and the team settles on a barricade.
- 22
Sae-byeok: it wasn't for free, pay me back tomorrow
Gi-hun settles the feverish Il-nam, then thanks Sae-byeok for helping; she refuses to make it a gift.
- 23
Ji-yeong proposes one all-or-nothing throw and a long talk first
Ji-yeong suggests settling it in a single bet at the end, and spending the time until then telling each other things they never told anyone.
- 24
Sae-byeok tells Ji-yeong what happened to her family
Asked why she came from the North, Sae-byeok says her father drowned at the border, her mother was sent back from China, and her brother is in a shelter.
- 25
Jeju Island, the Maldives and a mojito
Sae-byeok's dream is a house for her brother and a trip to Jeju; Ji-yeong tells her to dream bigger and mangles a famous movie line about mojitos.
- 26
Ji-yeong's first body: her mother, then her father the pastor
After Sae-byeok recalls plague victims burned in her hometown, Ji-yeong reveals that her pastor father killed her mother and that she killed him.
- 27
Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong finally exchange names
Before the last throw, Sae-byeok says her name out loud; Ji-yeong gives hers and admits she has no family name to go with it.
- 28
Ji-yeong throws the game: you have a reason to get out, I don't
Ji-yeong deliberately wastes her throw, tells Sae-byeok she has nothing waiting outside, and sends her to find her mother, her brother and Jeju Island.
- 29
Ali searches for Sang-woo; Ji-yeong's last words to Sae-byeok
Ali runs through the alleys calling for Sang-woo as the eliminations are announced, and Ji-yeong tells Sae-byeok she is honored to have been her partner.
- 30
Gi-hun confronts Sang-woo over the push on the bridge
Back in the dorm, Gi-hun demands to know why Sang-woo shoved the glassmaker; Sang-woo says he will do whatever it takes to win.