Character from Squid Game by Hwang Dong-hyuk
Player 007 — a gambling addict who entered the games to save his mother from his debts, not knowing she'd entered the same game to save him from his.
Yong-sik wants to be brave. His player number — 007, like James Bond — is the show's commentary on the gap between fantasy and reality. He's not a secret agent. He's a gambling addict whose debts got so bad his elderly mother entered a death game to bail him out. He struggles with fear openly. He's not a leader, not a fighter, not particularly clever. What he is, underneath the shame and the addiction, is someone who genuinely loves his mother and is horrified by what his failures have cost her. The moment he discovers Geum-ja is in the game with him is the moment he has to confront the full weight of his choices. His story is Gi-hun's story told from a different angle — a gambler whose addiction destroys the people who love him most. But where Gi-hun gets a redemption arc, Yong-sik just gets the bill.
Young Korean man with the look of someone who hasn't been sleeping well for a long time. His face carries a mixture of shame and desperate hope. Physically unremarkable — average build, average height — the kind of person who disappears in a crowd, which is how he ended up here.
Also known as: 007, Player 007, Yong-sik