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Sae-byeok Explained (Who is she?) | Squid Game Explained
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2021
- Today we break down Squid Game's North Korean character Kang Sae-byeok.
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Hi, sorry if you saw this video already on my other channel, it didn't get as much play as I was hoping over there so I thought I'd re-post it here while we put together our video on Ji-Yeong (it's over thirty minutes). Thanks for all the love and comments everyone. :)
Welp oof
i thought i was having the worst case of deja vu lol
Haha thanks, though I can't promise I won't throw out a cringey joke ebery here and there, I'm liable to do so. 😁.
Sorry Elizabeth! Just wanted to make sure Ochi viewers see it before the Ji-Yeong video.
@@GenerationOchi haha dont be sorry! im happy to watch it again :D
her brother will never know how strong she was💔.
I think he knows how strong his sister was.
Maybe one day he'll find out
Maybe Gi Hun will be able to tell him about her bravery.
He knows, we younger siblings always know. 💖
He can watch the show when he gets to where he needs to be. :)
(jk lol)
She actually played the game pretty smartly.. Game 1, she discovered early-on that by hiding behind someone can avoid the motion detector. Game 2, she sneaked her way to discover what the guards were doing, then followed along with Sang Woo and ended up with the easiest honeycomb shape. Game 5, she chose 15th right behind Sang Woo again and made it across
For game 5, picking number 15 was luck based. But she’s still very smart.
She was very smart, but lost due to chance. No one knew that the glass would shatter like that, and she happened to get fatally wounded. Which is what the game runners were betting on. If she weren't fatally wounded I think she would have won the last game. She seems to be a lot better with knives than Gi-hun or Sang-woo, not to mention she has the secret pocket knife. She would have most likely been the winner if Sang-woo or Gi-hun were taken out instead of her.
@@Palepetal Her pocket knife was taken by Deok Su during night riot and then confiscated by soldiers; and in the last episode, Sang-woo and Gi-han both showed enough skill with knife fight, they have the reflex to catching and disarming each other's attack. While I agree that she's more skilled with knife, it's highly possible for her to get disarmed half way through and the guys would have heavy physical advantage over her. Gi-hun and her probably won't really fight, but I can still see Sang-woo winning her without her being wounded prior.
Wat da dog doin?
That point towards the end about her dying in the way she feared, by one of her fellow men, that GOT ME. It hurts so good, just goes to show how good the writing is
i was really salty when sae-byeok died an unjust and unfair death because i was really rooting for her 😔 i connected with her the most and i could empathise with her when it comes to being hesitant to trust, reserved and mysterious. i was really drawn in by her
i really liked the character breakdown and analysis of her! keep up the great work 😄😄
Same. But his point about the glass bridge and the metaphor about north Koreans thinking they escaped and are safe - uff. I didn't made the connection. Really got me, and now, from a story writing perspective, I am not *that* salty anymore.
same, I really related to her.
Was looking forward to this character breakdown
Thx Asian Andy! 😁👍
18 naked cowboys in the showers at ram ranch
The character I think people liked more than the protagonist (or almost as much). Life did her dirty.
I don't know if others agree but I feel like in her final moments she saved Gi-hun both spiritually and literally. Knowing how Sang-woo is prone to trick and take advantage of others I was left with the feeling that he didn't really fell asleep, but was setting a trap to be able to kill them (most likely he was trying to get Gi-hun as he would have noticed that Sae-byeok was weak). So even if she wasn't aware of that possibility by not letting Gi-hun turn to the darkness she saved him from falling into a (supposedly) trap.
Oh my god, this makes a lot of sense. Such an underrated comment
Oh my god, this makes a lot of sense. Such an underrated comment
Although he did drop his knife and have his eyes closed, if he was fake sleeping he was giving Seong Gi-hun a free opurtunity to aim and throw the steak knife isntead
@@Lelow Throwing the knife would have been a detriment to Gi-hun. Giving up a weapon is dangerous, especially if one doesn't know how to properly throw a knife let a lone one that is not designed to be thrown.
I didn't think about the symbolism of her being unsafe even after crossing the dangerous path, even though it seems obvious now. Her story is so painful.
I relate to this character alot. People always said I seem cold and selfish.. I used to pretend that I'm not and didn't wanna accept the fact that I may seem mean and cold, selfish in the surface but deep down I'm scared, and don't want to be let down, and don't want to be takin advantage of.
I love insightful comments like these!
Deep
I relate in the same way
Fun fact: The scene at 1:23 wasn't supposed to happen, but the director still kept it in. If you watch sae-byeok closely you can see her laughing.
It was supposed to happen, but Gi-hun wasn't supposed to pick up the coffee :)
@@emmatompkins4903 exactly; it's just so funny that he did whilst being chased by loan sharks!
@usernameisallfull and it fits his character so well showing some humanity in the midst of a situation that requires selfish action.
She doesn't actually fail, but manages to provide a better life for her brother by trusting Gi-Hun and telling him about her brother.
I love how she is loving to her family and being strong for fighting for her hopes.
I like emotional character that loved her family and is tough on the outside. She is a good person in her heart.
Best character of the show it sucks she won't be in season 2 there was so much interesting potential of exploration with her character but I guess it's better that something good doesn't get forced to rush & stretch out more then what was thought out & intended so it doesn't get ruined.
she might be.she posted on instagram, the post showed a video of ali abudl and the other girl and sae byeok, and it looks like she has a scar on her neck where she was stabbed. she might actually be alive.
There are rumors circulating (theories) that she was still alive in the 🎁 🤔
@@liamwesley457 that video was a test shoot from april 2020. it’s in the caption
@@liamwesley457 She got burned in the incinerator. There's no coming back for her.
SHE JUST LIKE US THAT'S WHY WE LOVE HER As a woman you have to learn to be tough or the world will crush you
No…
@@scuzzlebutt2477 No what do you mean no make that a yes
@@scuzzlebutt2477 if you don't show them strength they pick on you
@@ROYAL_BTS_ARMY-fp1cf I agree. I do think it applies to all people. The specificity could vary, though.
@@silverrain530 true depending on circumstances of the situation their may be times when you have to pull back witch is why people always say pick and choose your battles
After Sae-byeok died it kinda made me sad as she was basically her brothers Mother by how she acts
And i felt more bad for her brother then her herself
My favorite character of the show.
She lead a hard life, and got hard to survive. Hard, but not irredeemable.
Ji Yeong & Gi Hun’s attempts to connect with her attributed to her “redemption arc”.
Sae Byeok stopped Gi Hun from killing Seung Woo, and lead to him retaining his humanity. His compassion.
Her name means “Dawn” in Korean.
And like the saying goes;
“It’s always darkest before the dawn.”
Great analysis, just one (sorry, actually essay-length) thing to add that I think would complete your reading of her character (and the season overall).
Like Ji-yeong, Sae-byeok's final act actually completed her character arc -- namely, in asking Gi-hun to look after her brother knowing she's about to die, she is finally and wholeheartedly trusting another person, not with her own life but with the most precious thing in her life. She has come to truly believe that morality and good actions are still possible as a result of Ji-yeong, and in turn she trusts Gi-hun to do right by her family and her wishes, in direct opposition to her secrecy and protecting of her family and herself before this moment. She also carries forward her own dreams and hopes for the future in that moment, as Ji-yeong did before her. That moment, along with her assertion that Gi-hun should not murder Sang-woo, made both her and Ji-yeong's deaths meaningful in carrying that positivity and humanity forward to the very end of the game when Gi-hun decides to quit rather than take another life.
In fact, I would say Sae-byeok's final moments and decisions to believe in people pays off *beyond* the game as well -- that positivity is carried forward even to Il-nam as well, I think, in his final scene. That small, seemingly insignificant act ends up touching the people even at the very top of the ladder of society. As a result of Ji-yeong and Sae-byeok's actions, Gi-hun remains uncorrupted by the end of the games, steered away from further brutality through the kindness of others. As a result, he still believed at the end that a person's life fundamentally matters. And I think that's why Il-nam calls him in at the end, because he knows Gi-hun is a very unusual person, and he's fascinated and revivified from Gi-hun's outlook on the world. After all, Il-nam let him win at marbles for a reason, seemingly because he was moved by Gi-hun's kindness, and he was genuinely sorry to see Gi-hun become corrupted into cheating at the game. And I don't think Il-nam set out to experience the game the way it panned out -- Gi-hun is what changed it all for him.
Il-nam calls Gi-hun in at the end for two reasons: to ask him two questions and to play that final game together. It's significant that he automatically assigns Gi-hun the position in the bet that someone will help someone else in need -- this is clearly the idea, the moral virtue, that Gi-hun as a person represents to him. The questions he asks are "Why didn't you use the money?" (i.e., why are you not greedy/why didn't you become like me?) and "Do you still trust in humanity being good?," the latter of which he actually asks *twice.* The latter in particular is obviously a significant question to him, it's something he's been mulling, and Gi-hun's beliefs and final outlook are important to Il-nam in some way. Important enough that he would choose this to be his final moments on earth (I think he took poison, probably in that water, otherwise the timing of his death is just too coincidental). But why? Well, Il-nam says it baldly. He's trying to "feel something" in his final moments.
I think he actually WANTED to be proved wrong by Gi-hun; he ultimately wanted to lose that bet and he wanted to have reasserted to him that humanity can still be good. Gi-hun is someone who seemed to maintain the belief that human beings are good, worth saving, even after all the atrocities he witnessed. That's why he's so invested in asking Gi-hun if he still feels that way after the games. He wants to know that it's not just something that can exist inside the messed up parameters of the game but outside of it as well. Il-nam even says right before he dies, that it's thanks to Gi-hun, not thanks to the games in general that meaning and feeling was brought back to him. He says, "Thanks to you I got to remember all these things I had forgotten long ago." So it seems that perhaps Il-nam didn't just want to return to the simplicity of his own childhood, he also maybe wanted to return to some of that goodness and kindness as well.
The final message, the importance of that scene, to me, is that everyone is equally screwed up by the system, even those at the top, but that kindness can still reach anyone -- even people like Il-nam who have become twisted, joyless husks as a result of a cruel system. At the end, kindness is what "saves" him, gives him some small amount of meaning in his last moments, as with Ji-yeong and Sae-byeok before him -- kindness and empathy and sacrifice are passed forward from Ji-yeong to Sae-byeok to Gi-hun, and those moments of human connection keep resonating outward from those moments.
The ultimate message is that we can still change each other and maybe even the world through small acts of kindness. Pretty cool stuff.
Anyway, just my two cents! Sorry for the essay and thanks for the video :)
Was I the only one who got father figure vibes from Sae-byeok and Gi-Hun’s relationship
I have been thinking about how different the story would have felt if it had been written from her perspective as her as the main protagonist. I think she's such a strong side character but honestly her character is stronger than even the main character. I really wish it had been her story. Maybe that would have been too unrealistic though
I also really wish it'd been her story. I had resonated the most with her and was very heartbroken when she died. And when Ji-Yeong died💔💔
Imagine the brutal fight at the end between her and the main guy being as both were fighting for family.
I don't think they would have tried to kill each other but rather decided to end the game without the money...they're both not that kind of person
@@MPK93 I don't know man, she's cunning and determined.
@@charlesmiv3842 She was also mortally wounded. Even if she played she wasn't going to win any physical fights.
I love your analysis on Squid Game characters so much. It's like the type of content that would have been added if Squid Game was a book.
Nowadays, so many people around us get hung up on practical outcome and forego the morality side of things all the time.
It's nice to have someone mention the value of preserving sense of morality even if the practical outcome is the same.
I like your videos on Squid Game! Can we get a Deok-su video :D For a character with such a Seedy Past I'd love to see how you'd classify this guy.
Her character growth is probably my favourite one so far, her journey also resonated with me the most
You are so good at going in depth at this psychological shit. Well done!!
Coming back to this channel after soo long, still feel the same enthusiasm.
Keep up!!
Her whole arc was my favourite and the whole marbles thing and the end with her brother, that shit made me cry so hard. Tragic as shit but wonderful, absolutely wonderful.
I want to thank you for being true to the show’s Korean makers. Ive seen too many videos where someone either skips over the character or actors’ names and instead just uses pronouns or splices the dub into their videos for clips. It’s so damn lazy and disrespectful to everyone that made Squid Game.
Love the nuanced take. I look forward to more.
People say that she might be still alive because her stabbing was not shown but it was shown that she was put into the coffin, and they say that she is still alive because the voice didn’t say she was eliminated but people didn’t realize that it wasn’t said that people were eliminated after the glass stepping round…
I learned a new word from this video. _Bellicose--_ demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
It's rare for me to find new vocab, so I like to celebrate it when it happens. ^^
great content as always man! love her, and love her character
Thx man😁
One interesting thing. When Gi-hun offers her to join his team, in the English sub, he tells her that you trust people because you have to. In the French dub rather, he tells her that the reason she doesn't trust others is because she's never had anyone trustworthy in her life before. I think that's interesting
This was good!!! Excited for more
I’m in love with Sae Byeok.
Sae-Byuk’s death gave me similar parallels to Miharu’s death in The Platform (2019.)
Women - especially women of color - will turn themselves into beasts in order to protect the children that come with them at the very bottom of the pyramid.
My 💔 really broke when she died 😭😭😭 i had to stop watching and process what happened. I really wanted her to win...
I have a theory that
*_Ji Yeong was actually another trap planted by Il nam_* since Il nam is of old age, he *_would’ve wanted people to suffer the pain he did when his friends died and he had to keep living_* , and he wanted Sae Byeok to go through that.
Also, *_Ji Yeong was never even in debt, she was in prison for her whole life_* because she killed her dad, so it wouldn’t actually make sense for them to choose her in the game, I mean, I get that she had nowhere to go and nothing to do with life anymore but she would’ve inherited SOME money from her mum or/and dad?
*_The game was specifically for people in debt_* , but she said a man was waiting at the prison, but that means *_she didn’t play the card throwing game with him_* because you need to exit prison for that, so she said that he just gave her the card and left, even though they’re supposed to play the game with everyone, as we saw they did it with everyone at the train station in the last episode where Gi Hun was watching.
Since Il Nam is of old age, he probably would’ve lost so many people close to him. It’s like being immortal, but watching your friends and family die. he wanted that to happen with Sae Byeok.
*_Both Il Nam and Ji Yeong both died in episode 6 "Marbles", meaning Gi Hun lost a close friend (Il Nam) and Sae Byeok lost a close friend too_* , in the same episode. He wanted them to both suffer before they go to the end. and what a coincidence that they just had to accept that *their close friend died willingly for them* , and they both had to live through the guilt. Ali definitely wasn’t a trap though, because I’m sure the frontman looked into Sangwoo's history of embezzlement and sly, cunning nature, he knows that he will do anything to get his way.
*_The old man knew that Gi Hun was playing him and felt guilty, and Sae Byeok also felt guilty of letting Ji Yeong die for her but the connection is that both of these traps both died willingly for their close friend._*
*_TDLR_* : Ji Yeong is a trap set by Il Nam.
By the way, if it was too long, but you would've liked to read some, I have bolded some key points. Also please let me know if you've ever seen a theory with this idea, I've been looking for clarification. Tell me if you think I got anything wrong, too. :)
I like the theory but it doesn't hold a lot of points.
First of all unlike il-Nam and Ali (not saying he survived) we actually saw her being shot.
She may not be in debt (as long as the prison doesn't want the money back they spend on her) but she was still without money. I highly doubt that her parents left anything for her. She comes from a christian household and if her father is anything like the christian player then he's conservative. That he hits his wife and daughter also tells us that he's sexist. Why should a conservative sexist spare money for his daughter? It's fair to assume that he wanted her to marry as soon as possible so she would be another mens "problem". I highly doubt that he would want his daughter to be independent. Sure her mother would most likely want her to be independent but would the father allow her to have this wish considering how he treated her? Its possible that she saved some money in secret like a lot of abused women do but he killed her probably before she could hand them over to her daughter.
Last but not least let's go to the salesman. We can't say for sure that he has one single way to hire the players. We saw different ways so far. The game and offering the card immediately. They did some researches about their players therefore they know how to get them and a bit of their personalities.
@@hassanalkhalaf1115 Ok, but maybe she wasn’t originally Oh Il-Nam’s trap, but after keeping an eye on her, he (or the frontman) could’ve realized how much she didn’t care if she died or not and thought she could be of some use. When done with her purpose she could then die.
I believe it's mentioned in the show that her father had debt that she inherited. She mentions thinking that the person with the squid game card was someone coming to collect his debts from her.
Ok, this is DEFINITELY my favorite theory from this series.
I started the series knowing that the old man was bad (blame on the spoilers) and I realized the tricks he had to fool the participants. When I saw Ji Yeong appear, I was always suspicious of her because her character literally came out of nowhere and it was very strange that we can't see her in any game, you don't even see her among the people in the doll game or Dalgona game , but curiously it only appears when groups must be formed and when players are forced to meet people, as if its function was always to emotionally weaken a participant by creating a bond.
I feel that the old man wanted to weaken Saebyeok because he saw her as too strong and strategic a contestant, and probably the old man bet on Gi Hun (remember he was also VIP)
Maybe that also explains why in all of jiyeong's scenes she looks bored and carefree, but the only thing we see that she has motivation for is chasing Saebyeok everywhere or looking at her from afar, even in the elevator scene when jiyeong sees that Saebyeok is cold and complicated, he looks at her very directly and smiles. As if it was a plan or a challenge (to tell the truth, at first I thought he liked saebyeok)
Something that I correct you is that ji yeong did have debts. He inherited his father's debts, but his whole story may be fake anyway, I still think Jiyeong is an actress or relative of the old man.
loved this analysis
Sae-byeok is my favorite thank u for posting it!
I love Saebyeok! Never realised the link between her and promises. Gi-Hun slowly becoming someone she can depend on and Jiyeong always being therefore is something beautiful
Man why do you have to go so hard on your analysis. I started crying at the end
I liked this character a lot. I wanted her to win.
What I don't understand is not understanding why she isnt friendly or asking should we feel bad for her seeing how ruthless she can be or because she wanted to stay in the death games, and I laugh because I'm like...this is measured against what? Your personal or general sense of how people should be? Open and friendly? At all times? Say-Byeok is fine as she is she doesn't need to act likeably to be liked, no one should have to be happy and friendly, being ruthless can be valid it's only when it's put up against cookie cutter morality like this video and we see where she comes from but pick it apart assuming from her nature how she thinks and what her motives are and we don't know, not being north Korean you can't judge or look sideways as to why she's so unfriendly or staying in the games after seeing so many die, you may act or think a certain way and maybe expect others to think like you but you aren't her, she isn't you and her doing what she did doesn't/and shouldn't lessen us feeling bad for her because we may not be able to do what shes done, her sensibilities are more practical as they've kept her alive longer than trusting someone, and that's ok, the world is full of untrustworthy people, it's naively thinking otherwise that leads to more trouble
I think it's explaining how a lot of us do have that mindset, it's common to judge people by their worst actions but that can be misleading
I don't understand why Gi-Hun was trying to help Sae-Byeok. By helping her successfully it would just mean that he would have to murder her if he was to live, unless the show went with some typical cop-out of an ending were they both got to survive for some deus-ex-feeling reason.
I assume if Sae-Byeok lived and she was the one Gi-Hun had to play against in the final game that he would try and do what he did with Sang-Woo and attempt to end the entire game by asking for a vote to be done.
He wanted a friend against Sang-Woo. The two men couldn't wait to finally fight each other. Gi hun wanted to kill him but he also couldn't make sure he'll make it out alive but what matters for him was that his family is safe so he made a deal with SB to look after each others families.
Let's also keep in mind that the three last standing candidates don't actually know how many player could make it till the end
The ending where they both live could've been done if the cop successfully sent the files and the whole thing was shut down.
The game never stated that only one could live, I think he was hopeful that they could split the money
She was a great character !
8:49
Sae-byeok: "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen."
This video hit me hard.. as someone who also has lost fate in others!
Sea-byeok is my favorite character
I need this guy to narrate my life so I can feel better about it 👀
I think Sae-Byeok never actually died. I feel like the motivation Ji-Yeong gave her, boosted Sae-Byeok’s determination to win for her. Although it is a slim chance, considering Sae-Byeok got stabbed (by a glass shard at the end of glass bridge and stabbed again by Sang-Woo before the commence of the last game), I just have a feeling she somehow escaped from being cremated by the guards, or maybe the guards helped her escape for some odd reason - that would be a great plot twist if there ever was a series two of Squid Game. This isnt my original theory btw, lots of people share this theory and I doubt people know who originated this theory, but I agree with it nevertheless.
I agree. They never said “player 067 was eliminated” when she “dies”. We also often cut to guards collecting organs in the show. They could use those organs to help her one way or the other. Plus it was a offscreen death we never knew what truly happened.
I hope you do a video for Ali
Superb analysis
i feel so bad for her brother!!
And her mom
Make one on Jang Doek su
I love her character
But why do people say her name is pretty? What does it mean?
Easily my favourite character!
this the question I have Who was taken care of her brother when she was in squid game?!?!
Anyone thinking about what a deal 40 million won would be..
What I mean is it's not 40 million U.S.D. it's won
because its in the script ? ....
love your videos 🥰
7:44 The mugshot-
Keep making videos please!
I wanted sooo badly for her to win but I knew that its goingtobe Sang-Woo or Gi-Hun but when Sang.Woomurdered her I was crying like a baby, and it was sooo shocking and out of the blue as well
NEVER DOUBT MY COURAGE I MATCH FOR ANY MAN
quoted from the white queen
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I'm asian and I never really felt attracted to asians since i was born and grew up in America.. but This actress is so lovely and beautiful. Makes me kinda wanna fall in love with her. As far as her character goes, I deeply wanna save her from the cards she was dealt.. The realization just how unfair this world really is mainly b/c of the few wealthy people with no morals and empathy. This is a metaphor for our society and the battle of classism in a nutshell. Characters and shows like these really shows you no matter where you are in this world, there is always more pain and internal suffering in our reality that we are blinded to. I hope the compassion for others and strangers can unite us as a whole instead of constantly being seperated by small petty differences like outward appearances, the amount of money in ur bank, ur status in life, and the pressure of society that makes us all wanna be part of the norm.. Becasue all that is a fake and a facade. Whats real is the connections we have as humanity as a whole and I hope we can start to think less of ourselves and help others in need so we can unite as 'We the People' and hopefully spread understanding, patience, and compassion to all walks of life on earth. You from planet earth? Then we are all the same. I dunno where I'm going with this but I love everyone and I hope in the future, there will be less suffering in the world through COMPASSION AND EMPATHY
Yes. 💯💯
8:18 What is this I'm feeling?
She didn’t die ….
I know she is alive she will come back in s2 of squid game
they showed her body going into the furnace? but I too somehow hopes she comes in s2 even if the method is ridiculous
@@mitekshighosh but we can't see that she got killed and I know a theory about the red guards were his freind and she faked har death
@@DINOHMM i think its unlikely but lets hope for the best
But how they dragged her body in the coffin we all saw it
@@star554. her story is incompleted and we will able to see her in season 2 my heart is tellling
I watch sqiud game
Subtly?
She had depth to her character for such a short appearance and possibly my favourite in the show ….nah she was my favourite and I did hope she went further. She’s pretty tough….
plus she’s gorgeous, I would’ve exploited the hell out of her. Wink wink
wtf? what’s wrong with you?
Predator
bottom of a lake