How can you call yourselves human? How many of you can continue with this insanity just for the money? You just had to kill the ones you were the closest to at this place, and you're good with that just to get the money?
Player 069 to the other players after failing to attempt to end the games in "VIPS"
Player 069 was a contestant in the 33rd Squid Game in 2020.
History[]
Player 069 was in heavy debt and chose to enter a high-risk competition with his wife to win money. After waking up in a large room with his wife and 454 other people, he signed a contract and took his photo. He managed to survive the first game, Red Light Green Light, after most of the contestants had been wiped out. Afterwards, like everyone else, he was shaken by the deaths of the contestants, when the prize money was finally revealed. A vote was held if the game should continue, and the majority voted no. However, those who were willing to return could, and he returned, along with most of the other players.
He managed to survive the second game, Sugar Honeycombs, and the third game, Tug of War. Before Tug of War, Cho Sang-woo wanted to recruit Player 069. However, once he reveal to Cho Sang-woo that his wife has to join the team as well, Cho Sang-woo changed his mind. For the fourth game, he chose his wife to be his partner, but it was revealed that the game was Marbles and that players would face their partners. The couple was shocked to discover that only 1 of them would survive and in the end 069 managed to win the game, causing 070 to be eliminated.
Death[]
In the Dormitory, 069 tried to convince the majority to leave, but Sang-woo said that if they did, the deaths of the eliminated players would be in vain. At bedtime, 069 decides to kill himself to make the pain of his wife's death disappear, so he ties his sheet in a hangman's knot, ties it around his neck and hangs himself, taking his own life and joining his wife in death. The next morning, the players discover that 069 had died by suicide and the Workers put his body in a box.
Trivia[]
- He always sticks to his wife during the games.
- Is the last player whose elimination the speaker mentions.
- The panther-masked VIP bet $1 million on him to win the competitions.
- In the second game when Han Mi-nyeo passes the lighter to Deok-su, the voice announces that Player 069 and Player 070 passed the game in succession, implying that both he and his wife made it through the second game together.
Mistakes[]
- Player 069's faulty icon is the same as Player 448's icon.
- In Red Light, Green Light, Player 069 is portrayed as a young man in the Dormitory.
- During the initial chaos, a female Player 069 can be seen.
- In A Fair World, an another Player 069 can be seen in the dormitory.
Behind the scenes[]
Player 069 is portrayed by Kim Yun-tae, as well as multiple unknown extras in erroneous appearances.
In an interview, Player 069's actor, Kim Yun-tae, said that he likes to believe that his wife, Player 069's wife, beat him in Marbles but sacrificed herself, as she believed her husband had a better chance at winning the games. He also stated they probably entered the Squid Games due to living a difficult life and having marital problems of some sort, and that the two would've had some off-screen arguments during the competition.
Kim also stated that he didn't know the innuendo behind the number "69" until other people told him later on.
Appearances[]
- Season One
- "Red Light, Green Light" (error)
- "Stick to the Team"
- "A Fair World" (error)
- "Gganbu"
- "VIPS"
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