I'm good at everything except the things I can't do!
Han Mi-nyeo's catchphrase in "Stick to the Team"
Han Mi-nyeo (한미녀 Han Mi-nyeo?), also known as Player 212, was a contestant of the 33rd Squid Game.[2][3]
Han Mi-nyeo was in heavy debt and chose to enter the Squid Games to win money. She was a possible mother to a child. Throughout the games, she becomes associates with multiple people, many of whom end up betraying her. She had a brief sexual relationship with Jang Deok-su after joining his team. After she gets betrayed by Deok-su, she joins Seong Gi-hun's team for the remainder of the games. She later is thought to be dead by other players due to her being dragged off by guards but was revealed to have sat out of Marbles due to not having a partner. She later gets revenge on Deok-su by killing him and herself in a murder-suicide during Glass Stepping Stones.
Personality[]
Han Mi-nyeo is a manipulative woman who constantly seeks allies to gain protection and advantages during the game, sticking with the group that will favor her the most.[4] She constantly brings other women down to boost herself up, such as before the Tug of War where she insults Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong where she referred to herself as better than other girls.
History[]
Mi-nyeo is presumably a con artist who has been convicted of fraud five times, a fact she openly boasts about. She initially joins the Squid Games as a means to pay her significant financial debts. At one point she claims to have a newborn child who she has not even named yet.[5] After rejoining the games, Seong Gi-hun and Oh Il-nam wonder if Mi-nyeo managed to name her child before returning.[6]
After learning the fatal nature of the games following Red Light, Green Light in the first round, she survived the game off-screen. She begs to be set free, but after learning about the ₩45.6 billion prize money, she votes to continue the competition. She claims that life outside is just as difficult and dangerous as it is in the games.[5]
After being sent home and promptly returning, she manages to persuade the guards to let her use the bathroom after lights-out so she can smoke, but is interrupted by Kang Sae-byeok, who is attempting to learn more about the upcoming games. Mi-nyeo boosts her up into the vents and buys enough time for her to return, though she doesn't completely trust her. Later on in the games, she assists Jang Deok-su during the second-round game Sugar Honeycombs by passing him the lighter from her cigarette package, allowing him to melt through the honeycomb with his needle rather than cutting through it, which leads Deok-su to invite her into his team.[6]
Mi-nyeo and Deok-su have a brief sexual relationship, but he later expels her from his gang after learning the third-round game is Tug of War and needs strong people. After which he replaces her in the Team 1 with physically stronger men. Mi-nyeo defects to Seong Gi-hun's team for the Tug of War game,[4] but afterward she has trouble finding new allies and is left without a partner for the fourth game. The other contestants believe she will be killed as a result,[7] but to their surprise she was spared and was able to participate in the fifth game, Glass Stepping Stones. During that round, she picked number 11 meaning she would be 11th to go on the Glass Bridge.
Fate[]
Deok-su, you've got a hell of a tiny dick.
Han Mi-nyeo's last words to Deok-su in "VIPS"
In Glass Stepping Stones, Mi-nyeo gets revenge against Deok-su for his betrayal by grabbing him around the waist and pulling them both off the bridge, causing both of them to fall to their deaths.[8]
Kill count[]
| Character | Information | Image/GIF |
|---|---|---|
| "A Fair World" Tug of War | ||
| Team 5 | Pulled off the Tug of War platform by Gi-hun's team to their deaths. | 
|
| "VIPS" Glass Stepping Stones | ||
| Jung Min-tae (Player 322) |
Pushed him toward Deok-su, who then threw him off the glass tile. | 
|
| Jang Deok-su (Player 101) |
Pulled him into a wrong glass tile in a murder-suicide. | 
|
| Herself | ||
Trivia[]
- She made one selfless act that helped benefit the other players. Specifically, during Glass Stepping Stones, where she took Jang Deok-su with her to fall to their deaths, and revealing the correct glass panel.
- Deok-su guesses that her age is 49. At the time of filming her actress was 45.
- She is the only character to be a part of both Jang Deok-su's team and Gi-hun's team.
- She is the penultimate female player to be eliminated at the 33rd Squid Game.
- Her given name (written as 美女 in hanja) means 'beautiful woman'. That is likely why she appears very confident while saying "I'm Han Mi-nyeo!".
- Han Mi-nyeo is one of the seven characters confirmed to be a smoker. The others are Seong Gi-hun, Park Jung-bae, Cho Sang-woo, Thanos, Jang Deok-su and The Masked Officer.
- She is the only player who passed a game without even participating in it.
- The guards referred to her as a "weak link" because she was rejected by other players and couldn't find a partner in time. The reason she was left behind is because Player 111's death resulted the number of players going from 40 to 39, meaning that 1 player wouldn't have a partner.
- Another Netflix's origin, "Behind Every Star", Han Mi-nyeo's actress starred in it.
- The 9th episode on that show shows the first scene of Han Mi-nyeo in a dark room but visible Glass Stepping Stones, but unlike the game, it only has one line. Han Mi-nyeo steps on the next glass but falls on the second one. But this scene is a dream from the actress' character.
- It is unknown what happened to her child after she died. But it is possible that she doesn't even have one because she often lies. She later revealed it was a lie in an interview with No Jae-won.
- She claimed to be good at games like Gonggi and Elastics when trying to get Player 017 as her partner in Marbles.
- A player named Park Tae-jun won the eighth Squid Games in 1995 with her number.
- Coincidentally, Byeong-gi's number and Deok-su's number both add up to Han Mi-Nyeo's number.
Mistakes[]
- On the V.I.P.S screen she can be seen labeled as Player 202, this is likely a continuity error, as her jacket number was 212.
Behind the scenes[]
Han Mi-nyeo was portrayed by actress Kim Joo-ryoung. Her English dub voice was provided by Stephanie Komure.
Appearances[]
- Season One
- "Red Light, Green Light" (icon)
- "Hell"
- "The Man with the Umbrella"
- "Stick to the Team"
- "A Fair World"
- "Gganbu"
- "VIPS"
Gallery[]
Behind the scenes[]
References[]
- ↑ Assuming the remaining games all occurred on consecutive days after the Squid Games resumed, Glass Stepping Stones most likely took place on June 29, with the final game happening on June 30.
- ↑ Red Light, Green Light
- ↑ The overall competition is confirmed to be called Squid Game, and the 2020 game is confirmed to be the 33rd annual game, by the archived files Hwang Jun-ho reads in the episode "A Fair World".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Stick to the Team
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hell
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Man with the Umbrella"
- ↑ Gganbu
- ↑ VIPS