Character from Squid Game by Hwang Dong-hyuk
Player 111 — a disgraced doctor who turned the game into a side hustle, harvesting organs from the dead in exchange for intel on upcoming games.
Byeong-gi treats the Squid Game as a system to be optimized, not a moral crisis. While other players form alliances and agonize over survival, he identifies the corrupt guards, offers his surgical skills, and negotiates a deal: he harvests organs from eliminated players, the guards sell them on the black market, and in return he gets advance information about upcoming games. He speaks with the professional calm of a man explaining a procedure. There's no malice in it — he's not enjoying the exploitation. He's simply doing what he's always done: leveraging his skills for maximum personal benefit. The ethical questions about cutting open dead players don't seem to register. The Front Man executes him — not for the organ trafficking, which the organization tolerates, but for receiving advance game information. The violation isn't cruelty. It's unfairness. In the game's twisted moral logic, everyone must face death equally, and Byeong-gi's information advantage breaks that sacred rule.
Korean man with the composed bearing of a medical professional — clean, precise, careful with his hands. Wears glasses. Even in the green tracksuit he carries himself with clinical detachment, as though the dormitory is a hospital ward and the other players are cases.
Also known as: 111, Player 111, The Doctor