Squid Game
WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Squid Game season 2.
InSquid Gameseason 2, episode 5, Gi-hun’s group explains the meanings of their names to each other.
He also fabricates his cover name, Oh Young-il, which corresponds to his Player 001 uniform.
It translates literally to “gold”.
As of 2015, there were more than 10.6 million people in Korea who have Kim as their surname.
Jun-hee, also spelled as Joon-hee, is a unisex name in Korean culture.
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Some notable figures named Jun-hee are Korean director and screenwriter Han Jun-hee and Korean composer and professor Lim Jun-hee.
The name has entirely positive connotations, ranging from joy and happiness to handsome and talented, even virtuous.
Kim Jun-hee’s name may be a hidden clue to her winning the whole thing in season 3.
Squid Game is a South Korean series released in 2021 about financially struggling individuals who are invited to participate in a series of children’s games. The competition offers a lucrative prize but comes with perilous consequences, as the players soon discover the lethal stakes involved in each round.
