Just as bad out there: players brawl over leaving
A woman argues the outside world is no better than the games, a fight breaks out, and the host demands respect for the democratic process.
Han Mi-nyeo
Every Squid Game moment featuring Han Mi-nyeo, in story order. Played by Kim Joo-ryoung.
15 moments · 27 min
Han Mi-nyeo pitches herself to Deok-su
A stranger interrupts the fight to flatter Deok-su and offer herself as a teammate, claiming she is good at everything except what she cannot do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Deok-su steals a meal and beats Player 271 to death
Rations are a single egg; five meals go missing, Deok-su mocks the man whose food he ate, and the dorm's first killing happens over dinner.
Deok-su's gang counts the dead and Mi-nyeo guesses his age
The doctor stitches Deok-su while the gang tallies 27 kills, then Mi-nyeo flirts her way through a guessing game that ends on nineteen.
Mi-nyeo and Deok-su swear to stick together in the bathroom
Mi-nyeo corners Deok-su, makes him promise they will leave together, learns his name, and warns what happens if he betrays her.
Deok-su throws Mi-nyeo off his team
With his ten already picked, Deok-su shoves Mi-nyeo away and tells her to stop calling him babe; she swears on his name that he is a dead man.
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.
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.
Han Mi-nyeo joins the team and tries to run it
Mi-nyeo suggests ditching the foreigner, asks who the captain is, explodes at being called grandma, and insists she left Deok-su's gang by choice.
Han Mi-nyeo's sales pitch and the men who refuse to pair with women
Mi-nyeo sells herself as a con artist and dream girl while the men argue that teaming with a woman or an old man could get them killed.
The odd one out: Gi-hun takes Il-nam, Mi-nyeo is left alone
With an uneven number of players, Gi-hun pairs with the old man; Mi-nyeo screams her credentials, exposes Deok-su's doctor deal, and is dragged off partnerless.