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For her role as Sae-byeok, Jung was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, which she was nominated for along with her costars, at the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Jung was called Squid Game 's breakout star by critics. Before the sixth and final game, Sae-byeok asks Gi-hun to look after her family if she doesn't make it out the game alive, and is killed by Sang-woo not long afterwards to prevent Gi-hun from ending the game just to save her life.Īfter winning the game following Sang-woo's suicide, Gi-hun fulfils his promise to Sae-byeok by putting Kang Cheol in the care of Sang-woo's mother. Sae-byeok becomes one of the three finalists, alongside Gi-hun and Cho Sang-woo. In the Glass Bridge game, Sae-byeok made it across safely but was impaled by a piece of the exploding glass. She also forms an alliance with Ji-yeong, who sacrifices herself for Sae-byeok during the Marbles game. Initially entering the game as a lone wolf, she later allies herself with Seong Gi-hun and the other people on his team. Sae-byeok agrees to participate in the Squid Game to raise enough money to help reunite her family, and get her brother Kang Cheol out of the orphanage. At one point, Sae-byeok worked for gangster Jang Deok-su, but later went independent from him, causing animosity between the two. Her father was shot by the North Korean guards while fleeing the border into China and her mother was captured somewhere in China and repatriated back to North Korea, where she was imprisoned in a prison camp. She originally had grandparents, parents and an older brother, but an epidemic at her native village killed her grandparents and older brother. Kang Sae-byeok is a North Korean defector and pickpocket. Kang Sae-byeok was portrayed by HoYeon Jung, pictured here in September 2021
Following the release of Squid Game, Sae-byeok became the show's breakout star. She also drew upon her own feelings of loneliness while modeling overseas to build the character, and wrote a daily diary from Sae-byeok's perspective. She studied for her role by practicing Hamgyŏng dialect with real North Korean defectors, watching documentaries about North Korean defectors, and learning martial arts. Sae-byeok is a North Korean defector and pickpocket who entered the games to win enough money to bring her mother to South Korea, and to get her younger brother Kang Cheol out of an orphanage.
She was portrayed by South Korean actress and model, HoYeon Jung. Kang Sae-byeok, also known as Player 067, is a fictional character of the South Korean survival drama television series, Squid Game. ‹ The template Infobox character is being considered for merging. › Kang Sae-byeok