Gi-hun returns home ecstatic with the money and shows it to his mother. The salesman gives him the money along with a strange business card with a phone number on it and tells him to call it if he wants to play other games for bigger prizes. Determined to win, Gi-hun tries and is slapped many times until he finally wins. However, since Gi-hun doesn't have that money, the salesman instead slaps him when he loses. Each round, whoever loses would give the other ₩100,000. Gi-hun feels disappointed that he can't give her as much as her stepfather despite her reassurance that she prefers the street food over the fancy steak dinner her stepfather treated her to.Īt the train station, Gi-hun is approached by a salesman to play a game of ddakji. He treats Ga-yeong to a basic birthday dinner of street food and a useless gift from a claw machine (a toy gun). Gi-hun then takes his daughter out for food with what little money he has left. The loan sharks threaten to take his organs if they are not paid by the next month and make him sign a contract with his own blood. Unfortunately, he is spotted and chased by a group of Loan Sharks and is robbed of his newfound money by a pickpocket. After winning ₩4,500,000 won, he elatedly calls his daughter asking what she wants for her birthday. He then steals her funds and gambles multiple times on horse races with a friend. After she leaves to go to her own job, he looks for her credit card, which she has hidden. He lives with his elderly mother, who gives him some money to get his daughter, Seong Ga-yeong, dinner and a present for her birthday. He's knee deep in debt due to a combination of losing his once stable career at a car manufacturing plant, a failed business venture, and a gambling addiction.
In the present, Gi-hun is an impoverished divorcee who is working as a chauffeur. It was a time of happiness and innocence, with no worries. He fondly remembers playing games like this as a child alongside his friend Cho Sang-woo.
RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT SERIES
The series starts with a flashback of Seong Gi-hun's childhood, when he would play a game called " Squid Game". Not long into the first round, unforeseen horrors unfold. Hoping to win easy money, a broke and desperate Gi-hun agrees to take part in an enigmatic game.
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