The 'Squid Game' cast and director sit down for an extensive recap of Season 1! Lee Jung-jae (Gi-hun/Player 456), Lee Byung-hun (the mysterious Front Man), creator and director Hwang Dong-Hyuk, and Lee Seo-Hwan (Gi-hun’s steadfast friend) unpack the highs, lows, and jaw-dropping twists of Season 1 while offering tantalizing hints at what’s to come in Season 2. Relive the terror of Red Light, Green Light, the precision of the honeycomb challenge, and the intensity of the glass bridge—all while discovering behind-the-scenes stories that make these iconic moments even more unforgettable.
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00:00I came up with a way to lick the back of the squid.
00:03After licking the back of the squid like crazy,
00:06I made the shape clean and survived.
00:10You had a hard time acting.
00:16Squid Game
00:19In the last season of Squid Game,
00:21Hello, this is the Squid Game team.
00:24Before the release of Season 2,
00:26to bring back the memories of Season 1,
00:29We came out like this.
00:31Gi-woo is invited to a game of slap-match
00:34to a stranger with a backpack.
00:37Every time you win the game, you get cash.
00:39Every time you lose, you get slapped.
00:42After several rounds,
00:44Gi-woo counts the money he won.
00:47A stranger can make more money.
00:50I'm going to give you a business card.
00:52I'm going to seduce you more directly.
00:55It's seducing.
00:57But Gi-woo hears that his ex-wife is moving to the U.S. with his daughter.
01:02To get custody of his daughter,
01:04I think it should be economically stable.
01:08But Gi-woo, who is desperate for money,
01:11I'm going to call you with the number on the business card.
01:15Do you want to participate in the game?
01:17If you want to participate, please tell me your name and date of birth.
01:21In the end, Gi-woo was in a mysterious van.
01:25On the move, he was injected with drugs and lost his mind.
01:31It's not exactly a drug. It's gas. Sleep gas.
01:34Sleep gas.
01:35Sleep gas is sprayed in the car.
01:38Now that Gi-woo is awake,
01:39456 people...
01:42If you subtract Gi-woo, it's 455, right?
01:46Now that Gi-woo is awake,
01:47455 other participants
01:49We were trapped in a warehouse-like place together.
01:55Gi-woo is a long-time friend in the game room.
01:59He's a neighbor.
02:00I'm going to meet Sang-woo.
02:02And he's got a brain tumor.
02:05He's an old man.
02:06He's a five-day man.
02:07I'm going to say hello to participant number one and find out.
02:12And the masked men showed up.
02:14The people here are all in debt.
02:18I'm going to tell you exactly that I'm going to participate in this place because of the debt.
02:23Before the game starts, it's a contract.
02:27If you don't sign the consent form,
02:30You don't have to.
02:32I'm giving the participants a chance to leave the game.
02:36But until then,
02:38I didn't know I was going to lose my life.
02:40To get the prize money,
02:41Everyone signs and participates in the game.
02:44Now, the first game starts.
02:47If you move a little bit in the red light,
02:53You'll be killed by a giant doll.
02:58I thought I was going to be killed by a doll at first.
03:00A laser in the eye.
03:03The surviving participants realized the fatal danger of the game.
03:07They want to go home.
03:10More than half of the participants have to agree to give up.
03:16I signed it.
03:18The police say that the prize money for each loser increases.
03:24The total prize money is 4.56 million won.
03:31It means that the more losers there are, the more prize money increases.
03:35I voted, and the result is that
03:38Participants decide to give up the game.
03:43That's right. It's a close call.
03:45Number one decided to go out at the end.
03:48But Ki-woo came back home.
03:51I found out that my mother needed surgery because she was unwell.
03:55It's such a heartbreaking fact.
03:58But all of a sudden, you reported it to the police.
04:01About the game.
04:03I had to pay for my mother's treatment.
04:11On the other hand, I wanted to let people know that I was playing such a merciless game.
04:16So I went to the police station.
04:18I reported it.
04:19Only the detective, Jun-ho, believed it and showed interest.
04:24Jun-ho remembers the business card he saw at his brother's house.
04:31I think he's going to meet Ki-woo.
04:34Does the business card that Ki-woo brought as evidence match the business card he found at his brother's house?
04:40Eventually, the participants decided to return to the game field.
04:45Jun-ho follows Ki-woo in secret to find his brother.
04:51Jun-ho disguises himself as a pink guard and enters the game.
05:01The returning participants play the dalgona game for the second time.
05:06You have to cut the shape of the dalgona perfectly in 10 minutes with a needle.
05:12If you fail, you will be eliminated.
05:16If you fail, you will be eliminated.
05:20Ki-woo picks the most difficult umbrella among the four shapes.
05:27Ki-woo was in danger of being eliminated.
05:30Ki-woo miraculously found a way to lick the back of the dalgona.
05:35After licking the back of the dalgona like crazy,
05:38Ki-woo completes the shape cleanly and survives.
05:42You did a great job acting.
05:47The third game was a tug-of-war.
05:53Ki-woo's team had two women and an old man.
06:00Jun-ho used the strategy of the old man and Sang-woo's strategy.
06:05In the end, he beat the stronger opponent team and eliminated the losing team.
06:12Jun-ho finds out that his brother was a participant in this game in the past and was the winner.
06:19Wow, that's a surprise.
06:22As the number of participants decreases, the participants make pairs and play marbles.
06:28Ki-woo makes a pair with the old man and plays a game.
06:31The old man pretends to have forgotten whether it was a pair or an odd number at the end.
06:38He is fooled by Ki-woo.
06:41But the old man forgives Ki-woo and leaves a word of support.
06:48The old man acted as if he had dementia.
06:52At the last moment, the old man forgives Ki-woo and gives Ki-woo a marble.
07:02Ki-woo commits suicide and is eliminated.
07:04I've only seen it once.
07:07Ki-woo passes the fourth game with that one marble.
07:12That's where the famous saying comes from.
07:14We're gangsters.
07:16The best line of season 1 appears.
07:19I'll stop here.
07:21Jun-ho is caught by the front man.
07:26Jun-ho finds out that the front man is his brother.
07:30The front man seems to have shot Jun-ho to death, but in fact, he deliberately shot where he didn't die.
07:41The rest of the people make Jun-ho think he's dead.
07:48It was Jun-ho's last appearance to fall behind the cliff.
07:53In an unclear state of life and death.
07:55The remaining three participants eat steak and leave a knife.
08:04Ki-woo promises to form an alliance with Sae-byeok and take care of each other's family.
08:13Then Sang-woo kills Sae-byeok.
08:15Sang-woo killed the dying Sae-byeok.
08:18Because he was afraid that Ki-woo and Sae-byeok would decide to leave through a vote.
08:25Sang-woo kills Sae-byeok.
08:27At the end, Ki-woo and Sang-woo...
08:29It's a one-on-one final squid game.
08:33As many of you have seen, Ki-woo eventually won over Sang-woo.
08:40There was a big twist.
08:41At the end, Ki-woo gave up the championship and offered Sang-woo to go with him.
08:48But Sang-woo couldn't accept the fact that he couldn't leave here with the money.
08:54He killed himself to make Ki-woo the winner.
08:57So he left a message to his mother.
09:02Ki-woo's mother...
09:05But in the end, Ki-woo returned home.
09:07He won the championship and received 4.56 billion won.
09:09He waited for Ki-woo to come home.
09:11It was his cold mother's body.
09:14He was worried about his mother's health.
09:17He risked his life for the game.
09:19He came back after overcoming a lot of incidents.
09:23The meaning of going into the game because of his mother is gone.
09:28In the end, at the last moment, Ki-woo organized everything.
09:31He dyed his hair red and left for L.A. with his daughter.
09:35But at the last moment, he found a guy recruiting other participants.
09:42Eventually, he gave up going to the U.S. and declared that he would find them.
09:47He turned around on the plane.
09:49That was the last look of Ki-woo in season 1.
09:52With this, I learned everything I needed to know before the squid game season 2.